The Swamp

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 11:52 am Just started this book...



Really enjoyable - and about a place I really don't care about. But the reviews were great and it's started out really well.

Weird fact about OKC: On the day it was founded, its population went from zero to 10,000 in two hours.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 2:15 pm Pretty fucking horrible how the government fucked the Indians out of their land for the 1889 land rush that created these towns. The settlers also frequently stole the possessions of the nearby Indians as they set up their new homesteads. Many Indians went from relative prosperity to being paupers overnight.
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A_B wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:28 pm Listened to 5/7 of Kitchen Confidential on a work trip past couple of days. Man what a great book. The chapter on a day in the life was friggin amazing.

Rush2112 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 4:00 pm

Recommends a classic piece for each day and gives a short snippet of each piece.

YouTube link for January if you want to catch up.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 12:09 am Russian Roulette by Isikoff and Corn, who are are as good as deep dive journalism gets. I started listening today, and can't put this down. An interesting take on Putin, they portray him as having a deep paranoia of a coup, and wild mistrust of everything and everyone. They gave some god insight into his hatred of Hillary on a personal, slightly on a personal level, but also saying he was convinced that Hillary, as Secretary of State, fomented dissent and organized protests against him. There is just so much involved in Trump/Russia ad Russia interfering with the election, that it's impossible to remember it all, and sometimes easy to miss the connection between pieces of the story that came out at different times.

The brief recap they gave on Obama's policies towards Russia were not pretty. Embarrassing to look back and remember that I laughed when Obama attacked Romney for living in the 80s thinking Russia was the biggest threat. Isikoff and Corn have Obama's Russian policy team quoted as admitting they had it all wrong. Basically, they believed they could reset the relationship and start working as allies with Russia, and Putin went into full attack mode, and Obama ignored the attacks in an effort to not escalate.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:02 pm I was and still am a fan of alt. country, and Whiskeytown was one of the standard-bearers in the late 90s. I saw Whiskeytown three times, and twice saw Ryan Adams behaving very badly. So, I knew I'd enjoy this one, written by their tour manager.