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November 03, 2017
Your boss doesn’t care about you. In a move that’s brazenness is only rivaled by its dickishness, billionaire Joe Ricketts opted to shut down local news outlets Gothamist and DNAinfo rather than allow his employees to unionize.   Tumblr is truly wild. There’s is no ...

Weekly Bafflements
October 27, 2017
It’s never just one man. For Splinter, Clio Chang examines the revelations about long-time New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier and how the culture of the magazine countenanced his actions.   Sarah Polley is a treasure. The Cut has a great profile of actor/director Sarah ...

Weekly Bafflements
October 06, 2017
Wow who besides literally everyone saw this coming. After decades of gossip and backchannel talk, somebody finally reported out and published the story that Harvey Weinstein is an enormous fucking creep. He looks like overripe fruit, and makes young women watch him shower. Cool ...

Weekly Bafflements
September 22, 2017
“Can jokes bring down governments?” For Frieze, our own Jonathon Sturgeon wrote about the failures of protest art under Trump. “The election of Donald Trump was a traumatic event, but it does not justify protest art that bears the precise legibility and perishability of ...

Weekly Bafflements
September 01, 2017
“I’m Sick Of Busting My Ass Doing Neo-Nazi Stuff Only To Have Some Masked Antifa Dweebs Get Credit As The Real Fascists.” A lot of very dumb and/or cynical people wrote about Antifa this week but the only piece worth your time is this one, from Clickhole.   “Pay me ...

Weekly Bafflements
August 25, 2017
“The do-nothing option is pretty gruesome.” As a hurricane heads toward Texas, take a minute to read this 2016 piece from the New York Times which outlines the potential devastation of just such a scenario.   Seriously though, everyone knew this was coming. The Texas ...

Weekly Bafflements
August 18, 2017
Man, what a terrible week. Just an unrelenting deluge of morally bankrupt people parroting stupid opinions. Usually we round up a few good and funny things we read this week but honestly, everything is so fucking bad right now. So, here are some statues that are better than ...

Weekly Bafflements
August 04, 2017
Release the tapes Despite David Frum’s pearl clutching over our precious norms, it should be obvious to anyone that the deluge of leaks coming from this administration is a good thing. In the New Republic, Brian Beutler lays out an argument that embarrassment over leaks might ...

Weekly Bafflements
July 28, 2017
“I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock” The best read of the week, and quite possibly our lifetimes, is this batshit insane Ryan Lizza piece recounting a conversation with Anthony Scaramucci. If you somehow missed it, well, buckle up because it’s ...