Repost: Eric Schmidt, "Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics"
If necessity is the mother of invention, war is the midwife of innovation.
Citation Needed
Citations at the end are the, “OH! NOW I GET IT!" of writing.
Fact Checking The Root, “When Racism Slips Into Everyday Speech”
Some phrases really are racist
Bad Teachers… Are More Influential
Even with all the kind and great people in this beautiful world, a rotten minority can ruin it. The lesson is to ignore the rotten people and focus on the kind. I must have missed this lesson.
ExMas -- Tales of Exes Past
Dating is what you make of it.
Repost: Deadline, '{Atlanta writers} Address Criticism That FX Series Isn’t For Black People'
On Atlanta, Projection, and the Art of Overthinking Sodes
Repost: Middle East Forum, "{Islamist Mayor}’s Bigotry and Apparent Voter Fraud"
"Ghalib mocked African Americans following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police."
Repost: Rolling Stone on Mashrou’ Leila + Egypt (2017)
A fantastic Lebanese band proved fame turns people into posers, first disbanding out of Islamist pressure, then joining the Islamists.
My "SWAT Story" revisited (after another massacre)
I had seen guns before… There was the time I witnessed a man shot, at my temple. Still, none of my experiences compared to five minutes of my sophomore year.