I don’t have a short essay for you this week, so let me just recommend this reflection on privilege and whiteness by Utah Jazz player Kyle Korver.
Now, on to the links.
Wait, what?
The March 18 episode of the War On Cars podcast features a surprising guest: Ray Magliozzi of NPR’s Car Talk. “My brother hated cars….He was against cars because of all of the things they do to our lives and to our world. And I agree.”
The medium is the message
Flat roofs have historically been more urban, and that may be related to why proposed suburban buildings with flat roofs seem to generate more opposition than peaked-roof buildings.
Twitter curation
prequels i’d like to see get made:
Kim beans (@KimmyMonte) March 22, 2019
•Jaw
•Apocalypse Then
•The Blair Witch Assignment
•Snakes Getting A Ride To The Airport
•Dance Lessons With Wolves
•Star Disagreements
Mainstream Republicans
Georgia Republicans try to establish a special oversight board for journalism they dislike.
Although previously criticized for saying “there aren’t enough white kids to go around,” an Arizona Republican legislator was finally forced to resign when it was discovered exactly what he’d been doing with those white kids.
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Students who protested a campus speaker will be charged with misdemeanors.
This man was just acquitted… after spending four years in jail awaiting trial.
From last spring but no less relevant: What happens when you kill a bicyclist? (Answer: nothing. It’s totally legal to kill cyclists. All my neighborhood Facebook and Nextdoor groups feature a great deal of victim-blaming for dead or injured cyclists, and often fantasizing about deliberately hitting them. Twitter wags often note that, for a white man, getting on a bicycle in a major city is a good educational experience about the lives of others, the way they have to be constantly aware that the world can get incredibly dangerous at any moment, and that when it does, everyone will say it’s their fault for being in the way.)
Cultivating oddity
The mystery of the Garfield phones.
Cultivating joy
The Jacobin Pigeon looks pretty aristocratic for something that shares a name with an edgy leftist magazine.
All these lovely cows.
This basketball-playing dog.
Dutch police have trained eagles to hunt drones.
Bear removes hot tub cover to take a nice soak.
Wild, wild horses.
In a previous newsletter, I included a link to a napping cat that didn’t work for everyone. Here’s another place it’s been posted. It’s pretty great.
Secretly Ironic 