In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
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that's not my understanding of it

pretty grim when health insurance company executives have to try to hide their identities online like they're public school history teachers, government employees or doctors who care for transgender people

African edition of my book is up for preorder, out Dec. 13 to commemorate Mandela whose Robben Island prison nurse is featured here for the first time.

Comrades in South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Moz, Bots, Zim, Zam, Nam and Kenya, shop it at Wits U Press. Book tour details coming soon! 💜🕊️🙏🏻

This rules so much walzr.com/IMG_0001

time was on twitter you could make a cask of amontillado joke and everyone would eat that stuff up. people loved getting the reference. they’re probably expecting one at the end of this post. there’s not. but i can show you where one is

writing about message board drama for the atlantic is maybe the fakest job yet conceived

What if the right took power because the right set out to take power and promoting the message that liberals or the left provoked them into taking power was integral to the plan

the nine most terrifying words in the english language are "i'm from the government and i'm here to fuck"

At a certain point peoples taste in music just goes bonkers. I’m visiting my mom and she has a gospel CD by Dennis Quaid. All her music feels like it shouldn’t exist, like it’s from a different dimension

This is an amazing story. Houston criminalized feeding the homeless, Food not Bombs continued to do so, the city has ticketed them dozens of times and occasionally arrested members but hasn’t been able to get a single conviction. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Jankie's; 56GX+JMF, Mafeteng, Lesotho https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-29.823438%2C27.2491734&query_place_id=ChIJSRL1fzMdjB4RfCYlPgvgObw

in a theater in maseru, lesotho but the film burnt up on the second reel

Dinosaur finger bone from Lesotho rock shelter suggests Africans discovered fossils centuries before British did https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/dinosaur-finger-bone-from-lesotho-rock-shelter-suggests-africans-discovered-fossils-centuries-before-british-did

I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

glad to be on a platform where it's ok to say that charlie brown had hoes

Ohio State vs. Notre Dame is just a football game, but the competition between Ohio State Fan energy and Notre Dame Fan energy is the battle for the future of the Republican party. Personally I think both are super, and I just wish everyone involved could win!

This is some paragraph (in an already outstanding ProPublica story) https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

It's gotta be so demoralizing working for the New York Times. You spend days diligently re-reporting a week-old regionally published article you're pretending doesn't already exist only to open the op-ed section and see "Mongrel Sterilization Is in the Constitution" by Trevor M. Swastika.