Eclectic, intellectual, gay man, road cyclist, skeptic, atheist, liberal, rhetorician, doctorate in Indonesian literature. AIDS/LifeCycle 2023 rider #1301.
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2008
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Vice President Harris: Donald, I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. As the saying goes, if you got something to say, say it to my face
Anybody on Bluesky who wants to send me an invite? Every time I read something about Twitter it makes me less prone to post. I have concerns about the Mastodon model that seems unusually well contrived for mob censorship. Hoping Bluesky answers that issue.
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Hurles photographed gritty models plucked from obscurity, including hustlers, drug addicts, and convicts.
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In Spain, brotherhood set up by slaves marches at Easter rawstory.com/in-spain-brothe…
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Opinion: A Tallahassee Classical School teacher showed a sixth-grade art history class a photo of Michelangelo's "David," and that's when everything went south. huffpost.com/entry/florida-d… # via @HuffPost
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Brilliant —> Putin’s Shakespearean Demons Robert D. Kaplan wsj.com/articles/putins-shak…
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Lots of people suddenly writing about dismal US life expectancy. Glad to see focus on the geography, as in this good piece by Jeremy Ney 1/ americaninequality.substack.…
The 1965 Civil Rights March That Changed Everything thedailybeast.com/the-1965-c… via @thedailybeast
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"They want to deflect your attention away from the real questions and turn it toward a manufactured cultural conflict." -- "They" being the hard right, but alas the "woke" also deploy this strategy. --> The Boys Who Cried ‘Woke!’ nytimes.com/2023/03/14/opini…
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Annual BS report on admission rate that fundamentally misunderstands statistics and data: Stanford admits the same # of undergrads every year. What changes is the # of applicants! —> It's never been harder to get into Stanford sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
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Ouch!! --> Lead and Cadmium Could Be in Your Dark Chocolate - Consumer Reports consumerreports.org/health/f…
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WOW! --> Two Stars Made an Explosion That Was Nearly as Fast as Light thedailybeast.com/nasas-hubb… via @thedailybeast
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Thank you - crystal clear defense for freedom of language --> Banning words won’t make the world more just, George Packer writes. The moral case against euphemism: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Brilliant piece --> College Should Be More Like Prison by Brooke Allen wsj.com/articles/college-sho… via @WSJopinion
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Great read - I agree completely --> Why are young liberals so depressed?, by @mattyglesias open.substack.com/pub/matthe…
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Saddening for sure. When I was there in January, there was open water! --> ‘A part of winter is missing’: Ottawa grieves over lack of canal ice for skating theguardian.com/world/2023/m…
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article pointed to a photography website by the late, police-murdered Tyre Nichol: thiscaliforniakid2.wixsite.c…… Well worth a visit. His subject is his adopted hometown Memphis. Here's the article nytimes.com/2023/03/02/us/ty…
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Hilarious video! --> John Oliver Embarrasses James O’Keefe in Brutal Send-Off thedailybeast.com/john-olive… via @thedailybeast
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