Random: #175

Excellent

• Did China Eat America’s Jobs? – Freakonomics Podcast
  • “…beware the punditry, no matter how well-degreed they are, or well-spoken, or well-coiffed. Don’t assume they can know the future any better than you do; and don’t assume you’re such a genius either.“

• What Effective Protest Could Look Like – David Frum

• How to stop an autocracy – Ezra Klien
  • “Donald Trump is a paper tiger. But the US Congress is a tiger that we pretend is made of paper.“

Miscellaneous

• https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ – Media classification by right/left basis and factual content
  • https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news/
  • https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/center/

• Jeff Sessions questioning Sally Yates at her confirmation hearing in 2005
  • “Do you think the attorney general has a responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something improper?”  The irony here is off the scale.
• Covering Trump the Reuters Way
• One what basis might Trump’s executive order on immigration be illegal?
• Muslims doing normal shit in America

• Analysis of the largest vocabularies in hip hop
  • “No Regrets” – Aesop Rock
  • “None Shall Pass” – Aesop Rock

• Vortex at Saturn’s North Pole
  • Size Comparison

Quote

• “I’ve never yet a moron who didn’t think he was a genius.”
  – online commenter