“Throughline: Vladimir Putin”: https://n.pr/3veNyCS (Also available on podcast platforms, it’s the February 13, 2022 edition of NPR’s “Up First”.) This podcast contains a rebroadcast of an episode from a couple of years previous. There’s a new introduction, but a couple of minutes in the old episode begins and you get the history of Vladimir Putin. […]

This is surreal. I mean I remember the Iraq war. The first one, the Bush I one. Where you turned on the TV and saw the SCUD missiles and the explosions. But that was before America took its right turn, before the multiple truths, when we still believed that the U.S. was an unbeatable paradise/power. […]

It reflected the music of the players as opposed to the owners. If you search online you will find three responses to Sunday’s Super Bowl Dre extravaganza: 1. Best Super Bowl halftime show ever! 2. Okay, good to see hip-hop, it’s about time, but do all the acts have to be twenty or thirty years […]

Re: More Mikaela Bob,  that’s an excellent and very understandable analysis of the conditions and the evolution of alpine technical racing. Having spent a fair amount of time in the Chinese ski resorts in the same general region that these events are being held, I can confirm the snow is very different. It can be […]