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Department of Weekend Reading: January 2, 2015

On January 9, 2015January 8, 2015 By chrisbarsantiIn Omnium GatherumLeave a comment

That’s it! I finally caught up on everything you guys have been telling me to watch, read, and listen to.
Get rid of the mortgage deduction; it doesn’t even help the people it’s supposed to.
Racism in Ukraine: At least it’s out in the open.
Most overlooked books of 2014.
What happened at the end of the NAACP march to Jefferson City after the Michael Brown killing: “Shoot thieves.”
Movies to look forward to (or not, see: Chappie) in the coming year.
When the Beatles were the greatest threat imaginable against Christian America.
Print and read: “Do what you love” is great career advice, for a very few.

Department of Weekend Reading: January 2, 2015

On January 2, 2015January 1, 2015 By chrisbarsantiIn Omnium GatherumLeave a comment

Letting Cuban ball players sign to the MLB without having to use drug smugglers.
Thomas Piketty offered France’s Legion of Honor, refuses.
Central Park at 4 a.m., between the carousers and the dog-walkers, with only the racoons for company.
All too common: Scratch a southern conservative, find a neo-Nazi.
New Pope: Fighting modern slavery also means avoiding low-cost goods made by coerced labor.
Is Selma fair to LBJ?
Could Idris Elba finally end up as the new Bond?
Print and read: American chickenhawks and the military’s collapse into a black hole of praise.

Department of Weekend Reading: October 17, 2014

On October 17, 2014October 17, 2014 By chrisbarsantiIn Omnium GatherumLeave a comment

And now the protests come even to Plaza Frontenac.
Pushing black voters to go Republican in St. Louis.
If the CDC’s budget hadn’t been cut in half since 2006, we might have an Ebola vaccine by now.
Signs of real-world openness, and reactionary backlash, at the Vatican synod.
The gentrification of the humble dosa and inconvenience as a indulgence of the rich.
It’s not good enough to just jog anymore, the truly fit must now train as if for the apocalypse.
The abandoned mall in Kurdistan where Iraqi Christian refugees hope to wait out ISIS: “There are only 200,000 of us, Europe could take us.”
Print and read: The most devastating thing Europeans introduced to the Western Hemisphere was the pig, and other surprises about pre-Columbian America.

Department of Weekend Reading: June 27, 2014

On June 27, 2014June 25, 2014 By chrisbarsantiIn Omnium GatherumLeave a comment

Kanye West’s Dune? Never say never, especially after this.
This is how French nightclubs look during the day.
The late Tom Clancy “qualifies as a great writer in the same sense that Texas senator Ted Cruz qualifies as a great orator.”
End the two-party system, finally.
Facebook still the king of the teenage time-suck.
Thad “nicest guy in the Senate” Cochran, southern gentleman amid the braying demagogues.
New Pope, trying to finally untangle the church and organized crime, excommunicates the Mafia.
Too much money for (clearly) undeserving poors.
The old-guard liars and dissemblers who have all the answers on the Middle East.
Print and read: So who lost Iraq anyway (and is that even the right question)?

Department of Weekend Reading: February 28, 2014

On February 28, 2014February 27, 2014 By chrisbarsantiIn Omnium GatherumLeave a comment

Small-batch whiskies to the sinfulness of weak pours: A guide to Southern drinking.
More dictatorial bad taste: the abandoned Yanukovych mansion.
Women make better combat pilots; stories of the “night witches.”
GOP: Keep the children fat.
Too bad about Bitcoin.
The legend of Shakey’s Pizza and other adventures of American brands overseas.
The “academic suicide” that is the mysterious Voynich manuscript.
In memory of the late, wonderful Harold Ramis: An oral history of Ghostbusters.
New E.L. Doctorow novel to George Will on Wrigley Field: Books to look for in 2014.
First book from New Pope, The Church of Mercy, in stores by Easter.
Print and read: “It is the cure for the dog that bit you, and how easily you forget it is also the dog;” Roger Ebert, addict.
Bonus print and read: Max Boot on Robert Gates, one angry bureaucrat.

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