It is a known fact that Jack was once a ladies’ man who wandered the streets of Colorado and Oregon and went by the name ‘Blaze.’ He’s snipped reformed now, and we’ll never know how many kids he has. But this Ding Dong gets happy Father’s Day wishes, too.
Not your average forecast in Maine
Very much looking forward to One in a Million when it airs on PBS Frontline.
The impulse is to imagine a utopia and then back up from that into some sort of organization of how do we get there. And the minute that that happens, that utopia is kind of like a thief because it robs us of all of the possible complex, emergent relational chaos that actually is filled with possibility.
(NB: Goals like this — utopian or otherwise — should not be mistaken for those quintessential banners.)
The Trump administration has brought back the entire 14th Amendment into our discourse.
Interview with David W. Blight • The 14th Amendment as an answer — a Republican answer — to the Dred Scott decision and to the waves of immigration of the 1840s and 1850s.
Several times in the last week I’ve been reminded of Kosuke Koyama and a book I’d like to get back to this summer.