Hello, don’t know if you watched the NBC townhall with Donald Trump this week, but thereafter I felt like I could shoot lasers from my eyes. Links once more lighter as the weeks have been busy, and we have begun to enter that discordant pre-election period.
This photo is a recent one in Chinatown on film, specifically Lomo 400, which has a sort of pleasing, old school look.
Links
Researchers did a big survey of teens this summer vs. how they answered the same questions in 2018 and found in the aggregate, teens (with some notable exceptions) were faring a lot better than you’d expect during the pandemic. Interesting theories herein on why (more sleep being one).
This breaks down why you can’t extrapolate results from early voting. Very important the next few weeks!!
Sometimes people want to know: Is X race actually close? Perry Bacon Jr. looked at the South Carolina Senate race and the general dynamics that make races in the South often tough for Democrats to get from 45% to 50%, with a specific focus on Lindsey Graham’s race.
Check out this old photo of Mitch McConnell (and Antonin Scalia and Joe Biden) from 1986 — he’s virtually unrecognizable.
Kind of surprising in this pretty interesting Wall Street Journal look at the two economies of the last four years (or surprising to me, a moron), Janet Yellen goes on the record to basically say she was wrong about her expectations in 2017. Who says they were wrong about anything in 2020?
The Athletic wrote about the year Bob Gibson was a pitching coach for the Mets and, basically, scared the hell out of all the pitchers with instructive material. Also, this is obviously not the principal achievement of Gibson’s career, but my dad loved Bob Gibson; Mickey Mantle was his all-time favorite player, but Gibson was in the upper echelon of players right behind Mantle.
Caroline Siede continued her romantic comedy series (which is generally just great, and like browse the archive for your favorite) with Dirty Dancing.
Light book commentary
I was tweeting a little about this last weekend, but the funniest part of War and Peace is when the sad, serious Princess Marya receives a man with a general… not quite flirtiness, something more advanced and mature than that, and the French lady who lives with her (for unclear reasons?), observing the situation, is basically like, “Damn, didn’t know Princess Marya had it in her.” And it’s essentially written just like this.
(I am now actually almost finished reading this book.)
A note on all this
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