Chris

Oh my God. This is what's on Australian TV. I just read a story on Fox News that the police used no tear gas to clear the area, so I guess they think this footage is fake? Did anyone think they would see this in America in …

I’m in shock. I used to tell my seemingly well-informed friends of good intent who were voting for Trump: be careful what you wish for. He could break it, like George W Bush did. And just like that he seems to have brought back the 1918 flu …

Toni and I used to run a geophysical crew with 30 laborers in the South, through Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. I was 27 but had been born in Birmingham and grew up in Oakland, so I thought I knew something. In the hot summer months, our …

I asked the officer who does the looting and he said it's mostly opportunists. I checked Alan Taylor's InFocus photo essay for the Atlantic and the images were …

Last night I took my RX100 VII to a protest, leaving my beloved Nikon with a 70-200 at home because I wanted to look less intimidating. I thought I’d miss the superb photos my Nikon takes. Actually, it was better. I could get 24mm wide shots and …

In a somewhat related note, Google sent me a free Nest Mini. I don’t know why they did and didn’t know what it was, but it looks like they went full Apple on their package design. What the heck, I opened it and had a lot of fun talking to it and …

Fantastic!! Thanks for posting. I wish I had murals like these to add to the conversation, but I have nothing.

It’s getting talked about more and more as a vascular disease. Is it strange that it enters through the lungs and then morphs to the blood? https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-which-explains-everything-2c4032481ab2

My experience with cops all my life has been great. I know, I'm white, in a nice neighborhood. There were a couple studies in the 90s claiming police had a high incidence of domestic violence, but I have no idea if they were decent studies. Maybe …

We're in Mountain View, home of Google, 54% white, 35% Asian and only 2% black. But my feisty wife wasn't going to miss this. A feisty Asian woman with a bullhorn kept it lively and had us …

We need Michelle to be Biden’s VP. Perhaps the most unforgettable comment I’ve heard in years came from George Litt, one of Obama’s speech writers, during his interview with Terry Gross. She asked why the rage against Obama when he had no scandals …

The Guardian had a response that hiding his glorifying violence Post was a much better thing than fact checking his voter fraud …

The fish market in Norway:

> This is Trump's own downfall though. A world leader should be well articulated, That’s the thing. When he writes or speaks, the press and social media erupt, trying to figure out what he meant. His PR staff will go on the record and say “that’s …

Wasn’t it amazing? I’ll re-link it here. I really thought what we needed to heal our wounds of the past was a young, gracious black couple in the White House who could become the Jacinda Arderns of the world — widely admired, Nobel Peace Prize …

It seems to me the three greatest shames of our country were the race riots of the 60s, the Vietnam War, and Nixon’s lawlessness. They came in rapid succession. Having lived through them as a child and teen, I thought no one of my generation would …

> unless one has experience dealing with people who have this same pathology, one cannot fathom it. Someone close to me has become like Trump so I have huge motivation to fathom it, but so far it has eluded me. I also had trouble fathoming why …

It’s funny, I ordered drive-thru yesteday for the first time in a decade, because I was doing food photography. One stop was Chick-fil-A and I was surprised to see some pretty healthy-looking salads, albeit with some …

This is encouraging; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/health/coronavirus-transmission-dose.html It’s all about well ventilated spaces and masks. Surfaces, not so much.

Huh, honestly I didn’t know it was a thing, but I’m intrigued. The thing is I subscribed to Sirius XM when I bought a new car, and I really liked it. I kept paying for a few years. There were just a few specialty interest channels that hooked …

I think if you are the president, you should be able to tweet so people can understand. For people like me, Twitter, Taylor Swift and her millions of followers, and most of the worldwide media, we took it as a threat — especially in context of …

I depressed myself by watching the first two episodes of the new Netflix documentary about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. I did it because I thought maybe I could come to understand. But I couldn’t and stopped watching. The cruelty was too …

A CBS crew was shot with pepper bullets on camera. Who knows what the policeman was thinking? Fog of war? https://youtu.be/gprIBmd_9go

Wow, the people coming out of the woodwork with what seem to be convincing suspicions of early Covid. From one of your WSJ references: > Ohio this month listed 12 cases in Jan­uary as prob­a­ble Covid-19 cases, re­flect­ing peo­ple who re­cently …

That was quite fascinating. I wonder if, after the western world was taken by surprise with this virus, we will be like the Asian countries in the future and react much faster for the next one. They seem to be coming with greater velocity now.