It’s the one thing that drives him truly bugfuck.
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Well, sure. People in high society might have some distaste for thieves, and rapists, and sometimes even war criminals. But being poor is what gets you stopped at the door.
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The only way out is through…
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As sometime who has had a weird sort of arm’s length relationship with television since the late 80s, I’ve often wondered about this. I remember commenters complaining about it on a Mad Men review.
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A high-level summary of all the horrible things Facebook has done in the last fifteen months, which, even as a high-level summary, means a longread article.
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Here is a good way to do history, not just “one damn thing after another” but highlighting greater meaning…
Not very long, but a very interesting take on the history of board games and how modernity changed them.
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Animation warning. Sticky header, sticky footer, animated pain-modal. Can’t scroll after killing stickies.
I suggest reader view or its equivalent.
I suspect the printing press and woodcut contributed to the new-style boards.
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In the 1910s and 1920s, the [Soviet] state approved the manufacture of games such as Tuberculosis: A Proletarian Disease, Look After Your Health! The New Hygiene Game , and The Abandoned , in which “players had to round up homeless children and bring them to an orphanage.”
Man, those Russians sure knew how to have a good time. 
Although… Even as I’m sarcastically typing that, it occurs to me that, given the current enthusiasm for board games, some of these might actually fly if properly rebooted.
Also, that looks like it might be a pretty interesting website. Is that a regular read, or just a random link?
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As maybe The Oregon Trail, for example? 
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Play as a cat-thief with a bow. You’ll clean up.
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Well worth the time (and it’s not that long):
This might be related (though I have not gotten through this yet):
And this one is a couple of book reviews which seem shot through with serious problems…
Shorter and funner:
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Another round up for Sunday…
White women voting for Trump (race trumps gender…):
Pope of Trash on being respectable!
Why the Clash matters:
The enduring legacy of Edward Said’s masterwork:
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/05/20/orientalism-then-and-now/
What are at the heart of conspiracy theories:
And Neil Gaiman on Good Omens:
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Opened the conspiracy theory link in a private tab and it said that I have read my 3/3 articles… I don’t think that I have ever read anything from them.
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Ugh… maybe it’s because I provided the link and had looked at 2 other articles before I posted the link? I don’t know, though… Maybe if you come at it via a private browser, then through the main page?
[ETA] On firefox, I was able to open it by right clicking and picking “open in a private browser”… that might work for you, too?
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