Chantal Akerman
News from the Guardian that the great documentary and narrative filmmaker Chantal Akerman has died by suicide at age 65. Here is her moving 1977 “documentary” film News from Home:
View ArticleHousing and its Discontents.
“But few cities face a quandary as difficult as Berlin’s. More than 40,000 new residents a year have been piling in recently, as Berlin has become a magnet for European youth. Yet no more than 8,000...
View ArticleLanding On Her Feet
From ESPN: FanDuel spokesperson Justine Sacco told ESPN.com on Tuesday that the company’s internal data showed that DraftKings employees won 0.3 percent of the money the company has awarded in its...
View ArticleOver at the Partially Examined Life
I’ve a piece up today at The Partially Examined Life on Nietzsche’s On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life and whether it still holds up in a time in which our problem is not having an...
View ArticleYou Can’t Carry That On Campus!
Just the other day I was wondering ’round these parts why we don’t mix sex and other stuff more often. While I was thinking mostly about markets, this will do just fine, just fine indeed: Sex toys to...
View ArticleHow to Make $ Through Investment
The answer is there is no easy answer. If you are a financially disciplined cheap ass and you put your $ in a tax sheltered diversified, dollar cost averaged index fund and hold for 40 years, you are...
View ArticleThe Goods!
With Bob & David – Trailer – Netflix And they are coming back with a new show on Netflix! I’m sure the comment section will sound off with partisans for the Ben Stiller Show, The State, and Kids In...
View ArticleThe 2015 U.S. Dietary Guidelines will be published soon…
The U.S. dietary guidelines, updated every five years, will be updated this year (current guidelines here). Via Washington Post’s Wonk Blog. But the Dietary Guidelines, due to be updated later this...
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A Sore Temptation Indeed
I see this in the Twitter feed… …and oh, do I want to click through and read and see what’s going on and cackle with glee and hopefully schadenfreude. I want to do this much like Gollum wants the...
View ArticleSmall Victories in Parenting During the Age of Islamic Terrorism
I truly hope I never have to reflect on my child’s development as Deborah Phipps has regarding her son Lucas Kinney: “I’m glad he’s associated with al-Qaeda rather than IS, but obviously I worry.” What...
View ArticleTwo Thoughts, Interconnected
These two articles have had me thinking. The first is from a regular progressive writer and commenter Matt Yglesias. The second, well I think you know the source. Reuters has been around for a while...
View ArticleColor me giddy.
Trailers do not a movie make, but this looks like it might have the juice to make me forget the prequels: I cannot even begin to explain how psyched I am for this.
View ArticleHit the road, eh!
Expect Canadians to say today that this election changed nothing and the Liberals are the same as the Conservatives. Expect them to bemoan the falling stock of the NDP, who were seen as too much of a...
View ArticleMajor private equity firm to acquire major NYC apartment complex…
The details matter. It’s worth seeing how this deal got done: The deal includes an agreement that would keep almost half of the more than 11,000 apartments affordable for 20 years. For Blackstone, it...
View ArticleIn Which Saul Does Not Get Nostalgia, Take 500
Today is Back to the Future Day. I see that all the Internet is filled with articles and memes because Back to the Future II occurred on October 21, 2015. I’m rather perplexed about why my generation...
View ArticleChild Protective Services, 1877 edition
About 10 o’clock last night Officer Andrew Brown saw a middle-aged colored man near Sixth and Morgan streets, with a suspicious looking bundle in his arms. The officer hailed him and wanted to know...
View ArticleIn Development
Good morning all! The HMFICs have granted me contributor status, so I can create content a bit more easily, although it will still have to be reviewed, etc. I think this is mostly because when I get...
View ArticleMeat Eaters of the World, Unite!
As the world becomes increasingly distraught over the WHO’s report letting us all know how much cancer there is in a rasher of bacon, as Michael Pollan clearly and concisely pushes the boundaries of...
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