Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Back at My Desk
Various commitments drew me away today.
Not only can I now attend to desk work, but I can also continue with The Simplification of My Office.
The boxes of items that going into a storage area are multiplying.
If in doubt, throw it out.
Monday, June 22, 2026
First Paragraph
August, 1931 - The port town of Veracruz is a little purgatory between land and sea for the traveler, but the people who live there are very fond of themselves and the town they have helped to make. They live as initiates in local custom reflecting their own history and temperament, and they carry on their lives of alternate violence and lethargy with a pleasurable contempt for outside opinion, founded on the charmed notion that their ways and feelings are above and beyond criticism.
- From Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
The Media Wizards
"[White House deputy national security adviser] Ben Rhodes seemed to enjoy boasting about his power over people he considered beneath him. That did not make his assessment of the media landscape wrong. 'The average reporter we talk to is twenty-seven years old,' he noted. 'Their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing.' The depth of reporting and institutional experience built into the twentieth-century print model was dead. Something else that was easier to manipulate had taken its place.
- From The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control by Jacob Siegel
Sunday, June 21, 2026
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