The Sunday Paper: Chapter 15
This week’s news roundup is made up of random items from the local paper which have been carefully curated by a human being.
A-Section
The GOP energy activist striking fear at ExxonMobil.
What’s really interesting or ironic or whatever is that ExxonMobil is “a corporate descendant from the Standard Oil Co. monopoly founded in 1870” and the energy activist in question is “a senior strategist and ‘Space Cowboy’ at X, the self-described ‘moonshot factory’ at Google parent company Alphabet.” Um …
These guys really, really, really like cicadas.
Op-Ed
Oh, goody! Another holiday we can commercialize, while teaching kids revisionist history.
Metro
‘An old man goes. A new man comes.’
Gaithersburg could have been home to a mini-U.S.!
Business
Apple’s new iMac made even thinner by eliminating features.
Be on the lookout for “greenwashers”.
Sports
Given my divided baseball loyalties, I prefer to think of this as a win-win! 🙂
Book World
What is freedom–and how do we get there? I suspect you could get there faster by not giving a damn about the question, but I could be wrong.
Arts & Style
Why don’t I know about this person?
Magazine
The Pandemic Saved This Grocery Store.
Don Lemon: “We’re living in two different realities as Black and White people.”
What happens when opposites attract? I’ll tell you what happens. One of them tries, with limited success, to cater to a neat freak, that’s what happens! Then they learn to live with their differences and live happily ever after.
I didn’t read this, but you’re welcome to do so.
Finally, the Funnies!
Consider the plight of the private eye novelist.
Free stuff from around the Web!
Skinny jeans and other (apparently) outmoded shit. Included primarily because most of The Wall Street Journal is behind a paywall.
US Palestinian business owners speak up for Gaza amid swell of support. At the bottom, The Guardian asks for as a little a buck as a “small favour.”
The Flowering and Fading of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Hello strangelings! (Honorary and otherwise)
PS: Since it is was Father’s Day, here’s something my Dad wrote for the Harvard Class of 1945 (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report).
BTW, he kind of mixed up my sister’s birthday with mine. Kinda. Sorta. This explains so much. 🙂
PPS: Happy summer solstice! 🙂
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