What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again. | | | | "Step Brothers" is a movie I feel a kinship with. And that scares me. "Why do you have Randy Jackson's autograph on a martial arts weapon?" It's a great question. Truly.
(Columbia Pictures) | | | | |  | “What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
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| | rantnrave:// There's a scene in the THE FIRM with MITCH MCDEERE and AGENT WAYNE TARRANCE at a GREYHOUND racing track. Mitch asks "Doesn't the dog ever get the bone?" Agent Tarrence replies "Yeah. I hear it happens once it a while. It's a disaster. They can never get that dog to run again." I think about that concept a lot. Can you ever go back? Is there a behavior acceptance threshold we cross that is incapable of correction? I worry about this when it comes to the presidency. We have a POTUS who has no regard for ideals, laws, institutions, public servants, honoring deals, the greater good of the country, and our standing as a global leader. To him, the presidency is not a honor, privilege or responsibility. It's a trophy. A thing. A magnifying glass to be used to aggrandize only him. What AMERICA stands for and the moral leadership of the world is a really big deal. Even when we haven't lived up to it. Or have been hypocritical or self-serving. The ideal is what we strive for and how we judge leadership. We've all agreed and disagreed about one president vs. another. But has one ever had as little respect for the ideals? Can we reverse the impact? In THE ATLANTIC, JACK GOLDSMITH asks "Will Donald Trump Destroy the Presidency?"... From 2m10s to 4m10s maybe the best guitar playing ever. At least for my money... Wanted to drive more attention to a great FIVETHIRTYEIGHT piece by WALT HICKEY and DHRUMIL MEHTA about the flaw in online movie rating systems and their impact. Democracy in online movie reviews is a good thing but can have dangerous consequences. Especially when reviews are skewed by gender and the reviewer may or may not have seen the movie. We live in a social media world now where people share things they haven't listened to, read or watched. Reviews can be just like that. "The thing about a democracy is that it really does fall to the user, the voter, and the vote counter to ensure that the will of the masses is correctly manifested." Everyone in the movie business is reading this article. I know because I sent it to them... As my interest in WWII grew so did my interest in the emergence of the U.S. intelligence apparatus. I usually start with docs and movies. A very underrated film is THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Directed by ROBERT DE NIRO and produced by my dear friend JANE ROSENTHAL. That film is loosely based on the CIA's beginnings with characters based on those who built it. It's on cable weekly now given the political climate. One such character (played by DE NIRO) in the movie is GENERAL WILLIAM SULLIVAN. A quick jump from the movie to WIKIPEDIA explained that he was based on GENERAL WILLIAM J. DONOVAN, the chief of the OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES (OSS), AMERICA’s wartime spy agency and the precursor to the CIA. From there I went to GOOGLE and found a great VANITY FAIR piece on him from 2011, "Spymaster General"... I haven't digested the APPLE event yet. But our friends at THE VERGE take a look at "the five most important things"... When I think about those that can't afford healthcare and the difference healthcare would make in their lives. I think of this and I get choked up... I flee LA during award show weekends... Happy Birthday to SRIRAM KRISHNAN, SALOME EDGEWORTH, VIVIAN SCHILLER, and SEAN MILLS. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| The bad new politics of big tech. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Inside the past, present and future of this country's most inconvenient truth, by way of the most controversial black man in America | | |
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 | BTIG Research |
| Free with login. Your immediate reaction is likely to be, we have lost our minds with such a hyperbolic title. But humor us for a couple minutes, we’ll be brief, we promise. Maybe we are wrong, but every legacy media company Board of Directors should be thinking about this critical issue and how their current management teams are positioning their company for the future. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| He disdains the rule of law. He’s trampling norms of presidential behavior. And he’s bringing vital institutions down with him. | | |
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 | Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech |
| People deal in varying ways with tensions about what information to trust and how much they want to learn. Some are interested and engaged with information; others are wary and stressed. | | |
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 | Wired |
| In a moment of crisis, South Korea's capital is becoming a leader in big data. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Entertainment litigator James Sammataro explains why non-human creation shouldn't be dismissed as merely monkey business. | | |
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 | NY Daily News |
| Dear President Trump, Remember when, from the behind the scenes, you strategically helped Rima Fakih win the Miss USA pageant, making her the first Muslim woman to ever wear the crown? Remember how influential you were to crowning Leila Lopez from Angola, who is black, as Miss Universe? | | |
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 | Longreads |
| For over 70 years, Bacha Broot, located in the center of the Old City of Kabul, has been serving chainaki -- savory lamb stew -- despite Soviet occupation, civil war, and the Taliban. | | |
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 | Aspen Ideas Festival |
| As Latino Americans emerge as the majority minority and the new mainstream, representing 18 percent of the US population, questions are emerging about how Latinos fit into the national narrative. | | |
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 | The Business of Fashion |
| The pop superstar speaks to BoF's Imran Amed about mental health, the power of authenticity, aligning herself with Coach and why it’s important to separate what you can see on your phone from real life. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Two years after the Yamaguchi-gumi split, it’s no longer business as usual for Japan’s crime syndicates. But police suspect a subterfuge. | | |
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 | Last Week Tonight |
| Donald Trump issued his first presidential pardon to the last person who should get one. John Oliver discusses the troubling record of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. | | |
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 | Tedium |
| How corduroy, a piece of fabric with ancient ties that was built for the working-class, became really friggin' trendy all over again. | | |
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 | Pacific Standard |
| Joining a gang seemed like the best way to evade violence for women in El Salvador, but in many cases it only put them more squarely in danger. | | |
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 | Scientific American |
| The gendering of spaces changed the way people could relax in their homes. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Marion "Suge" Knight's original terrordome was the defensive line. It's where he starred for four years at Lynwood High School, 20 minutes from Compton, California's much-loved Tam's Burgers. The scariest man in rap was a star lineman at UNLV -- and a scab Los Angeles Ram. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Working in aviation used to be glamorous. Our demand for cheap fares helped ruin it. | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| Media buyers aren't giving great odds on the new shows set to roll out in September and beyond -- but they're buying them. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| There’s a campaign to kill off the antique institution, and it’s further along than you think. | | |
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 | Vestoj |
| A Vestoj Talk at McNally Jackson in New York City, August 2017. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | Elbow cover Massive Attack |
| | this song is an example of why there were YouTube to mp3 ripping services. So good. |
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