Weekend link dump for September 18

Two-factor authentication still has its limitations.

Deep Space Nine was my favorite Star Trek, too.

“So maybe more than any issue right now, Putin has become the ultimate test of GOP loyalty to Trump. Do you agree or disagree with Trump on Putin? That question will separate the ardent Trump supporters from the Republicans who aren’t.”

A timeline of Earth’s average temperature, as only XKCD can do it.

RIP, Alexis Arquette, transgender actress and member of the Arquette acting family.

“While this may seem like the quintessential underdog story, it isn’t. Underdogs have to win (or at least come close), which Bright and company never do. But getting as far as they do counts as success nonetheless.”

“But the truly scary thing is that Trump is redefining the concept of a gaffe out of existence. It turns out that if you just boldly repeat something often enough, it goes away as a story. We’ve become numb, as a society, to what Trump is doing.”

What Ta-Nehisi Coates says, times a million.

Hey, remember when President Bush “lost” 22 million emails? Boy, those were the days.

“And that, above all, is what they can’t stand. That is what infuriates them and offends them — the prospect of being judged, being assessed according to any standard not in their immediate control.”

“But what’s most deplorable is the knee-jerk pushback against anyone who dares point out this reality, as though exposing the deplorable is worse than the deplorable things themselves. Maybe the best way to avoid being labeled deplorable is to stop doing and saying and standing for deplorable things.”

Ballot selfies should be legal. I’m not sure what the argument against is.

Sometimes, “deplorable” really is the best word.

“The press is not a pro-democracy trade, it is a pro-media trade.”

Quantifying the deplorables.

What Samantha Bee says.

If anyone deserves a wonderful, joyful bar mitzvah more than Israel Kristal does, I don’t know who it would be.

RIP, Edward Albee, playwright of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and many others.

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2 Responses to Weekend link dump for September 18

  1. General Grant says:

    If ballot selfies were legal, I could demand one as proof that you voted for who I paid you to vote for. Or you I threatened you into voting for. Hence why they are not legal.

  2. Greg Wythe says:

    What Grant said. This is just a modernized version of a situation popularized in history from the Presidential election of 1896 (among scores of others before and after).

    I still support the right to take ballot selfies, but laws need to be updated to ensure that other voters’ privacy is protected and that others can be punished for requiring evidence for things such as condition of employment and/or simple cash payment in exchange for proof of vote.

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