A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite — ‘David Surozenski, a Republican, refused to add Trump flags to his display. “That’s not the way I was brought up,” he said. “The American flag political? No.”’ (New York Times) I can admire that.
Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean? (Ep. 467) — “… if you take less than 5 percent of U.S. waters and just grow seaweed, you sequester the carbon-output equivalent of 20 million cars.” (Freakonomics Radio)
Errol Morris on Donald Rumsfeld: A Fog of Memos — “The trick was to marginalize the record, to litter it with so many contradictions that a rebuttal to any future historian could always be found.” (New York Times)
Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald’s NSA “Scandal” (New Republic) Greenwald has become problematic for me. I appreciated, if wincingly, his defense of principle that tried to force people to recognize the rights, if not agree on the rightness, of folks across the political spectrum. I question the sycophants of the left-ish media cult. But I think Greenwald’s once solid orbit above bullshit has decayed.