Re: Long Reads
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2016 7:22 pm
That was a fun read. I could picture the author's self-satisfied grin as she typed "all the petty horseshit" in the last paragraph.rass wrote:Wow.
It's the sixth version of The Swamp. What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.sportsfrog.net/phpbb/
That was a fun read. I could picture the author's self-satisfied grin as she typed "all the petty horseshit" in the last paragraph.rass wrote:Wow.
Much would be made of blue-collar voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan who’d pulled the lever for Obama in 2008 and 2012 and then for Trump in 2016. Surely these voters disproved racism as an explanatory force. It’s still not clear how many individual voters actually flipped. But the underlying presumption—that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could be swapped in for each other—exhibited a problem. Clinton was a candidate who’d won one competitive political race in her life, whose political instincts were questioned by her own advisers, who took more than half a million dollars in speaking fees from an investment bank because it was “what they offered,” who proposed to bring back to the White House a former president dogged by allegations of rape and sexual harassment. Obama was a candidate who’d become only the third black senator in the modern era; who’d twice been elected president, each time flipping red and purple states; who’d run one of the most scandal-free administrations in recent memory. Imagine an African American facsimile of Hillary Clinton: She would never be the nominee of a major political party and likely would not be in national politics at all.
Pointing to citizens who voted for both Obama and Trump does not disprove racism; it evinces it. To secure the White House, Obama needed to be a Harvard-trained lawyer with a decade of political experience and an incredible gift for speaking to cross sections of the country; Donald Trump needed only money and white bluster.
Yeah, I know I read that story before. It was probably here.rass wrote:I read that last year and could sworn I posted it somewhere in here. Guess not. Anyway, yeah, it was good.
I know I'd read a story (probably from the Swamp) about the locals getting up in arms about a mosque being built in Wyoming, but I don't remember all of the details about Hot Tamale Louie.Shirley wrote:Yeah, I know I read that story before. It was probably here.rass wrote:I read that last year and could sworn I posted it somewhere in here. Guess not. Anyway, yeah, it was good.
But seriously, this one is awesome.tennbengal wrote:This is an absolutely fantastic piece:
http://bittersoutherner.com/lazarus-lak ... uck-morons
tennbengal wrote:But seriously, this one is awesome.tennbengal wrote:This is an absolutely fantastic piece:
http://bittersoutherner.com/lazarus-lak ... uck-morons
And after reading that I very much want to see that documentary, plenty of context for the race now.Nonlinear FC wrote:tennbengal wrote:But seriously, this one is awesome.tennbengal wrote:This is an absolutely fantastic piece:
http://bittersoutherner.com/lazarus-lak ... uck-morons
Oh, cool! I posted about the documentary on that race in the Movies thread. The doc is really cryptic about these guys... It's a great doc, but it doesn't deep dive into the characters very much.
Pretty intense stuff.rass wrote:An older catfishing tale (old enough that it predates the term):
http://www.laweekly.com/news/the-life-a ... es-2150689
When Dwayne Johnson meets you (and I can assure you, he would love to), the first thing he will do is ask you six thousand questions about yourself, and remember the answers forever. If you are a child, good luck getting past Dwayne Johnson without a high five or some simulated roughhousing; if you're in a wheelchair, prepare for a Beowulf-style epic poem about your deeds and bravery, composed extemporaneously, delivered to Johnson's Instagram audience of 85 million people; if you're dead, having shuffled off your mortal coil before you even got the chance to meet Dwayne Johnson, that sucks—rest in peace knowing that Dwayne Johnson genuinely misses you. For Johnson, there are no strangers; there are simply best friends, and best friends he hasn't met yet. I've known the man for only two hours—and have been in his car now for only a few minutes, listening to the Dixie Chicks, headed to what he's luxuriously described to me as his “private gym”—and already it's apparent that I am Dwayne Johnson's greatest friend in the entire world.
Wowrass wrote:My Family's Slave
mister d wrote:Maybe some of you olds will like this one: MICHAEL BROOKS and the son who barely knew him
High pointsgovmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:29 pm Holy shit, the GQ article/interview with Quincy Jones!
Looking forward to this one.brian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:51 pm Spencer Hall searches for what made Sir Edmund Hillary in New Zealand.
Finished that story this morning. Extra sad when accidents like that are entirely preventable by taking a safer route or could have been abated by having updated life boats.
Yeah, I'm one sentence in and pretty positive there's no way I'm going to be able to finish this.Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 5:38 am The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
Parts of the piece made me feel incredibly claustrophobic.