Category Archives: Popular Culture

Popular Culture, Science And Society, Space, Technology and Society

Harlan Ellison

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RIP.

In addition to the books and short stories, he wrote some Twilight Zone episodes, and Star Trek.

Popular Culture, Social Commentary, Space, Space History, Technology and Society

Buzz

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Emilee Speck got the court documents. As someone who’s known them all for years, this is very sad.

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Here’s a statement from Christina:

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Here’s the latest, from Chris Davenport.

[Bumped]

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Marina Koren has more at The Atlantic.

Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Social Commentary

Remembering Bobby Kennedy

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I remember waking up on a school day to hear that he’d been shot out in California. That was a rough couple months, between it and the earlier MLK assassination. Fifty years on, a useful reminder that much of the history has been rewritten, and that both he and JFK were highly overrated. Teddy was scum, but apparently some Americans have need for royalty.

More thoughts from Ed Driscoll.

Culinary, Health, Media Criticism, Popular Culture, Social Commentary

Anthony Bourdain

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I’ve never paid much attention to him, but he seems to have been quite a character. Here’s a foreword he wrote to a book in defense of a guileless restaurant reviewer in flyover country.

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Dealing with suicide.

It’s always been such an alien concept to me.

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After a suicide, think of the survivors. and Ben Shapiro asks “How do we stop suicides?”

When I was a kid, one of my classmates’ father shot himself, and she discovered the body. I wondered just how terrible that would be.