Sunday Links

I love a happy ending

I also love this story by Carmen Maria Machado

This is America

About that liberal bias

Tucker speaks out against global tyranny


What unfettered capitalism creates


Of course MAGA Americans are buying this story with the same eager glee that they buy every story that allows them to express their not-so-hidden racism

What it's like teaching MAGA-Americans

Blast from the past: These two posts from New Orleans after the flood

Racism in America

Here is one of my earliest memories, one I have never, ever admitted to anyone.

I was four years old. My family had just moved out of New Orleans proper -- in New Orleans, we lived in a trailer park in Gentilly, which was near the interstate overpass, and very close to the Community coffee factory. Every morning I would wake on the lower bunk of the bunkbed I shared with my older brother (my little brother had the crib) smelled roasting coffee. I still remember how wonderful that smell was.

Return to the Fort

We spent the past week in New Orleans, with (most) of my family, celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah combined. My oldest brother and SIL were only in town briefly, since she had to work Christmas; but we did see them the first night we were in town.

Now we are back in the Fort, and all of us are sick -- fever, sore throat, fierce headache. Since we always get sick for the holidays (being academics) this is NBD.