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With apologies to Tennyson, check out this 2011 essay by Howard Bryant (ESPN) describing one the most remarkable chapters in the history of sports. In addition to breaking records in baseball, the great Henry Louis Aaron helped to change Atlanta … Continue reading →

More details about this hybrid game are available here.

Let’s start with George Bush Jr. (“Bushito”) for starting costly wars without end in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today (21 Jan. 2021), for example, 18 years after Bushito’s fateful decision to start a disastrous pre-emptive war on false pretenses, there is … Continue reading →

Exhibit A. Meanwhile, is President Biden the new Konstantin Chernenko? #gerontocracy

My next paper will have to be on “The Politics of Normativity in the New Media”!

The full thread is available here, via Joaquim Campa (@JoaquimCampa).

In honor of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and MLK Day, we are posting below a small sample of MLK-related postage stamps from around the world:

Via Kottke (links in original): “Cuban-born Darian Mederos does oil portraits that look like they are covered in bubble wrap. You can check out more of his work on Instagram.”

Pictured below is Betty White in one of her first film roles as Senator Bessie Adams in ADVISE AND CONSENT. Below the fold is my mom Oilda (center) with her mother Antonia (left) and me.