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Obviously a very consequential day today. I don’t want to write anything political because I like to have readers and visitors of all...
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Lukas Kendall
Aug 91 min read
Jonathan Chait at New York
I don’t write a lot about politics and current events here in order to avoid generating political arguments. (I am basically a mainstream...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 26, 20231 min read
Skip This Political Post, Too
Well, I was wrong about something. Last week I thought that the Republicans in the House of Representatives would have to turn to...
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Lukas Kendall
Oct 14, 20231 min read
Skip This Political Post
I follow politics pretty closely—I’m a mainstream Democrat—but I rarely write about it because it can be so divisive. But I just want to...
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Lukas Kendall
Jul 31, 20231 min read
The Sickening End of Twitter
I’ve been aware of Elon Musk’s purchase and destruction of Twitter as it’s been going on the past few years. I didn’t follow it with...
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Lukas Kendall
Jul 15, 20232 min read
My Friends William and Craig at Screen Archives
Above: Joe Sikoryak, me, Ed Dennis and “the Godfather,” Craig Spaulding of Screen Archives, probably 15 years ago. I woke up this morning...
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Lukas Kendall
Mar 31, 20231 min read
Light Bulbs
I read an article in New York magazine that’s way more interesting than it sounds: an exploration of the new LED light bulbs and why they...
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Lukas Kendall
Feb 26, 20233 min read
What Is Wrong With People, Dilbert Edition
I was a big comic-strip fan as a kid. When I was in grade school, I wanted to be a comic artist when I grew up. The first strip I was...
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 9, 20221 min read
Election Craziness
Like a lot of people I’m watching closely the midterm election results from yesterday. Crazy! I try not to talk about politics too much...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 17, 20221 min read
Martha’s Vineyard Migrants
My hometown was in the news this past week, when Florida governor Ron DeSantis evidently arranged to lure under false pretenses newly...
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Lukas Kendall
Aug 8, 20221 min read
Maybe Not Doomed?
I remember the Cold War, thinking that at any moment I’d go outside and see something like the above (a screen cap from The Day After)....
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Lukas Kendall
May 25, 20222 min read
Unspeakable
I try not to write about politics here. Not because I’m not interested; I follow it pretty closely. But I learned a long time ago, in...
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Lukas Kendall
Mar 13, 20221 min read
Seth Abramson Ukraine Piece
If you’re interested in learning more about the terrible situation in Ukraine, here is a very insightful (albeit depressing) piece by...
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Lukas Kendall
Feb 27, 20221 min read
Ukraine
I am certainly not going to be able to add anything meaningful to say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...but it seems important to...
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Lukas Kendall
Jan 28, 20222 min read
Crazy People
I don’t often write about politics here because it never does any good. I could do without trolls finding and attacking me, and I don’t...
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Lukas Kendall
Jan 9, 20224 min read
Is Everything Terrible?
I was a young boy in the early 1980s, and I distinctly remember the dread of the Cold War—the feeling that any minute, now, we would look...
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Lukas Kendall
Nov 3, 20212 min read
Depressing
A few days ago I had a depressing experience when a reader—and apparently I can count my regular readers on one hand—posted a comment...
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Lukas Kendall
Sep 11, 20212 min read
Take Me to 9–11
Above: the chair (the white glider) where I sat and watched the news on 9–11. I once had an Internet date with a young woman who dabbled...
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