Respecting people who disagree
“Damn right I’m a white nationalist,” says a member of the Texas Republican Party Platform Committee.
VA secretary Robert Wilkie, while speaking at a pro-confederate conference a few years back, gave a great deal of praise to Robert E. Lee and the morality and honor of the Lost Cause. Sure, that was 1995, which was whole different century, when people didn’t really know that the pro-slavery side were the bad guys in the civil war. But he also gave a similar speech at a Sons of Confederate Veterans event in 2009, so, maybe he actually believes it.
And all of this nonsense from outgoing losers.
And this very sarcastic comic.
Misc
Teaching high school students in Mississippi how to use primary documents to understand the legacy of the civil war.
I’m in the Boston Globe today, talking about the importance of compromise and figuring out what’s good enough.
An analysis of sales of expensive winter coats in Korea and the window it gives into class structure and inequality in Korea these days.
Happiness economics and the midlife crisis.
From YouTube, a very fun DJ set of Japanese funk & soul records.
From Twitter, this comment on recent heavily redacted memos:
The footnotes in this memo are insane
Individual 1 ⬛⬛⬛⬛ weeping loudly ⬛⬛⬛⬛ mechanically separated ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛elbow deep ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛Gnostic gospels ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛before returning to⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ the whole thing ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛kept for observation.
— Ed Burmila (@gin_and_tacos) December 5, 2018
And this heartwarming/horrifying piece of DIY advice:
Don’t throw out dolls heads, you can turn them into handy night lights for your kids 🎄 pic.twitter.com/9wG9QGggMp
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 7, 2018
Cultivating joy
Helpful dog at Christmas
You know how sometimes you sneeze while eating pasta? Imagine being a seal.
Corgis in snow.
Secretly Ironic 