I was surprised and a little bit gutted to learn that the quote “I hate to write, but I love having written” cannot be attributed to Dorothy Parker. According to the Quote Investigator, there’s no evidence Parker ever wrote or said anything like that.
Month: August 2020
Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful
It was the end of the world as we knew it, and I felt fine. That’s almost exactly what I told my psychiatrist at my March 16 appointment, a few days after our children’s school district extended spring break because of the coronavirus.
Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism?
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A Better Man
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin
The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
Paywalls are justified, even though they are annoying. It costs money to produce good writing, to run a website, to license photographs. A lot of money, if you want quality. Asking people for a fee to access content is therefore very reasonable.