IMPORTANT NEWS: Hating is good for your health. So let's take our medicine...
In what might be contemporary journalism's longest sustained humblebrag, ex-Hill White House correspondent and Reuters campaign hack Sam Youngman mistakes his own inability to think in anything but cliches for a systemic problem with American political reporting. Here's a convenient rubric: if Politico is willing to publish your critique of clubby DC journalism, you know you've failed to critique clubby DC journalism.
Speaking of hacks and clubby DC journalism and Politico: Mike Allen takes his rightful place at number one on Pareene's Hack List. Like the others, it's so pitch-perfect that it's hard to read.
In case you missed the subtle themes running through his recent work, Dave Eggers takes to the Guardian to explicitly claim victim status for Important Writers like himself, complete with wild claims that today is worse than McCarthyism and that writers now suffer the same persecution as Muslims.
Today in Pairs of Things: Two well-written anti-bitcoin essays: Alex Payne on Bitcoin, Magical Thinking, and Political Ideology, and Charlie Stross's somewhat less measured "Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire." And a pair of good Nieman Journalism 2014 entries: Adrienne LaFrance on the conceptual beat, and Jason Kottke on the death of the blog.
People eat soup, and the New York Times is ON IT.
Lindy West rewatches "Love, Actually". Google Glass for creeps because apparently actual Glass isn't already bro-ey enough? The Daily Beast takes you... Behind the Subtweets. Take the damn bagel. Penguins dressed likeSanta.
Our Dystopian World: Sinkhole continues to swallow Louisiana. Sea monster. Reddit-branded assault rifle. Undetectable Macbook camera spying.
Let's end with two things that are really worth reading, shall we? Ta-Nehisi Coates's "The Gangs of Chicago explains how the police operate as just another gang. And in Al Jazeera America, Jill Filipovic debunks the so-called war on men.
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Today's Song: We Didn't Start the Fire, 2013.
Watch: Home for the Holidays. "Tinder? I don't know."
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