Nick Baumann |
I cover national politics and civil liberties issues for the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones. I have also written for The Economist, the Washington Monthly, the Atlantic, and Commonweal. Email me at nbaumann [at] motherjones [dot] com. |
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Notes"[W]hatever problems Aaron was facing, killing himself didn’t solve them. Whatever problems Aaron was facing, they will go unsolved forever. If he was lonely, he will never again be embraced by his friends. If he was despairing of the fight, he will never again rally his comrades with brilliant strategies and leadership. If he was sorrowing, he will never again be lifted from it."Another sad post on Aaron Swartz, from Cory Doctorow.
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My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved.
Very sad post by Quinn Norton, Aaron Swartz’s partner, about his death.
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NotesThis is wonderful: An Illustrated Talk With Maurice Sendak (Drawings by Christoph Niemann) (by TheNewYorkTimes)
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Notes"If judicial review depends on a presumption that the jailer’s documents are reliable, then there is no review. The jailer always has documents: it has only to write them." -
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NotesIn Memoriam: Ray Bradbury 1920-2012 (by JPLnews)
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Eugene Polley, Inventor of the TV Wireless Remote, Dies at 96
A true American hero. And I mean that—people whose inventions make everyday life a little bit easier and more comfortable are not celebrated enough. RIP.
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NotesTHE BOSS singing The Weight, last night, for Levon Helm.
(Source: youtube.com)
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Notes"At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle. At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To please his mother, who did not take kindly to his being a pirate, he briefly managed a mink farm, one of the few truly dull entries on his otherwise crackling résumé, which lately included a career as a professional gambler."In case you haven’t already read the obituary for the actual most interesting man in the world.
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Notes"The group liked to play a game in which members came up with the sentence least likely to be uttered by one of their number. Mr. Hitchens’s was “I don’t care how rich you are, I’m not coming to your party." -
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Notes Mitch Albom: Veteran died alone: Did you know him?As it turns out, the Internet did.
