Quote of the year — 2017

The problem, of course, is that the places that have obsessively run those stories for the past year aren’t really news outfits—not anymore. They are in the aromatherapy business.

Lee Smith

Louis Anquetin

Avenue de Clichy

The Great Stupiding

continues.

Leopard

Spots.

Delphin Strungk

What a magnificent name for a composer.

Romanticizing Hunter-Gatherers

Analyzed here.

Fake News from Coyne

Here.

The NYT calls BS, as Althouse notes.  Coyne didn't just pass on the fake WaPo report, but cited “readers” and riffed on this. This is a portrait of a man with an impaired confirmation bias sensor.  Coyne is I think an honest guy, but he just lets his biases rule him sometimes.

Concerto for Piano and Flute Octet

Composed and performed by Jeroen van Veen.

“Police Department is Closed. Call 911 in case of an Emergency.”

Weinstein and Heying speak out on the future of WLU TESC.

Ban Rigor Mortis

And the other kinds too!

Happy Cow

Here

And now for something completely different.

Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald eviscerates the fake news pushers.

Update. CNN out-CNNed.

The Great Stupiding Continues

Compare and contrast.

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Bruno Turner

Examples of his doings.

A bit about him.

A nice piece of real math

From 3Blue1Brown

This Is What Trump 2020 Looks Like