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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
I think Mayer's article about Robert Mercer successfully demonstrates that the Republic is really in danger from the super wealthy.
"Until Election Day 2016, Mercer and Hanley--two of the richest men in America--paid Caddell to keep collecting polling data that enabled them to exploit the public resentment of elites such as themselves."
That's positively evil.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 02, 2017, 02:58:25 pm ---And that, I say, is a good argument for continuing to receive hard-copy bills in the mail, and for writing checks to pay them. :)
--- End quote ---
Yes, if you're the kind of person who mails off a check immediately upon receiving the bill. As you might suspect, I am not. So the automatic withdrawal option works fine for me.
serious crayons:
So this weekend I weeded through my stacks of old New Yorkers. There were issues dating back to April 2016! And even then it was hard to part with some of them! ::)
They aren't all duty articles, either. I even spotted a David Sedaris piece I don't recall reading, though I usually read his the minute they arrive.
If a magazine contains only one or two articles I want to read, I rip them out, staple them and make a pile that I can gradually work my way through. I stash them in places where I might need emergency reading material. I still never even get through that stack, but at least it's shorter than the whole magazines.
However, some of them have three or four articles that still seem worth reading, so then I do keep the whole magazine!
Sometimes I wish the New Yorker were a monthly. Because this isn't even the internet's fault entirely -- I used to always fall behind in my New Yorkers in the early 1990s. But back then I also read Harper's and probably digested the paper a little more thoroughly.
The one good thing that's come out of the presidential election is that I feel I can freely toss any political reporting published prior to November 8.
Jeff Wrangler:
On Jeopardy! this evening: E.B. White said that The New Yorker used commas with the precision of knives in a circus act. ;D
Front-Ranger:
I enjoyed the article about Prince Charles in the latest issue. Some eye-opening revelations there.
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