All good things must come
to an end. Fortunately,
all bad things as well.

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Part 2: My picks for #sundayread for December 30, 2018, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved. The case of Gardendale, Ala.’s fight for a district.
  By Alvin Chang @alv9n
• Information terrorists have weaponized social media, blogs, videos and other digital channels
  By @MollyMcKew
• I Quit My Job to Pursue My Passion — and My Life Fell Apart.
  By Darcy Stewart
• How statistics lost their power — and why we should fear what comes next
  By William Davies @davies_will
• How to Fight Voter Suppression in 2018
  By Edward Burmila @gin_and_tacos
• On female rage
  By Leslie Jamison @lsjamison
• How Poetry Came to Matter Again
  By Jesse Lichtenstein @jgl541
• Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism
  By @JayRosen_nyu
• The female price of male pleasure
  By Lili Loofbourow @Millicentsomer
• I read the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing decades of sexual abuses by Catholic priests and cover-ups. You should, too, though fair warning, it’s a stomach-churning indictment of a longtime holy criminal conspiracy.
  [PDF] https://buff.ly/2PXr3es
• Out-of-state real estate investors who destroy city housing communities
  By @RachMonroe
• The Kardashian Makeup Empire Is Only Getting Bigger
  By Zan Romanoff @zanopticon
• “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body” by Roxane Gay @rgay broke my heart into a thousand pieces. A challenging but rewarding read.
  [aff. link] https://buff.ly/2Nwnq0E
• What Happened When a White Cop Decided *Not* to Shoot a Black Man
  By @theJoeSexton

All my #sundayread picks for 2018. And visit Part 1 from Dec. 23.

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A city as canvas

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for December 30 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Who designed such a
fiendish trap that would keep me
so paralyzed? … … Me.

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My dog has no nose!
— Oh heavens, how does he smell?
(A pause.) Just awful.

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Catch up on some sleep.
Finish clearing the garage.
Learn a new language.

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A look at Birmingham in videos …

Highlights from the Holy Spirit 101 conference in November at Our Lady of Sorrows church in Homewood. From United for Life Foundation.

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Chicago post-hardcore band Tar performs earlier this month at Saturn in Avondale. From Matt Sharp.

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Birmingham mayor Randall Woodfin discusses business development in 2018 earlier this month at the Birmingham Business Alliance chairman’s meeting at the Alys Stephens Center. From al.com.

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The Birmingham Business Alliance is launching a talent recruitment plan. From Alabama NewsCenter.

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Nashville rock/country singer Damon Johnson performs “Jailbreak” in November at WorkPlay in Lakeview (our vertical video of the week). From Tesla Rocks71.

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Promo for Old Overton Club golf course in Vestavia Hills. From Brian Krehbiel.

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Hiking at Ruffner Mountain. From Obito Uchiha.

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The reptile house at the Birmingham Zoo. From Hunter Ivey.

And the carousel at the zoo. From Jim Toomey.

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Promo for TV show “Travels with Darley” with stops in Birmingham and other places in Alabama and Arkansas. From Travels with Darley.

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Promo for Shake Shack at the Summit. From Jessica Chriesman.

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Looking at property around Birmingham. From Simple Pasive Cashflow dot com.

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Louisville rapper Piff the Dragon performs earlier this month at Legacy Arena downtown. From Gain Green Entertainment.

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Time-lapse drone footage of painting a mural at First Avenue South and 23rd Street downtown. From Dunlap Productions.

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Birmingham-Southern student Stewart Fowler directed “Flowing Free,” a short documentary on the Cahaba River. From Stewart James Fowler.

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Visiting WeePeat Boutique children’s clothing store on U.S. 280. From Birmingham Fun and Family Magazine.

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Talking with Carol Dean, board member of Greater Birmingham Ministries downtown. From UAB Media Studies.

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Erron Martez Dequan Brown, suspect in Thanksgiving Riverchase Galleria shooting, appears in November in an Atlanta courtroom. From Associated Press.

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Mobile painter Walter Simon at Art Town in East Lake Station. From Mark Harper.

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Discussing Birmingham’s Smart Cities Readiness Challenge Grant at the Digi.City Connects Birmingham roundtable earlier this month at Innovation Depot downtown. From Alabama NewsCenter.

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A tour of the Birmingham mobile home from McComb Home Center in Mississippi. From Bobby Ingram.

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Officers from other departments are sworn in as Birmingham police members. From al.com.

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Memphis football coach Mike Norvell on his team heading to the Birmingham Bowl to play Wake Forest. From Memphis Tiger Network.

Report from Memphis’ WATN-24 on Memphis in the Birmingham Bowl. From Local 24 Memphis.

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Members of the show “Sesame Street Live!” visit Birmingham and Huntsville this month. From Brandon and Vlog.

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Commercial for Birmingham Children’s Theatre’s production of “Peter Pan.” From Perfect Fit Productions.

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Discussing the Galleria shooting over wings. From Fritz Family Entertainment.

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Send us links to your videos. | More videos on the Birmingham channel.

What color palette?
What themes? Which artist’s style? What’s
your spending limit?

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No more bargain hunts.
No more long return lines. Just
click, wait, knock, it’s done.

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Merry Christmas!

Take a look at the wonderful “Twelve Days of Christmas” from cartoonist Liz Climo.

A package, neatly
wrapped, beneath the twinkling lights
waiting for a child.

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They looked back upon
the earth in awe at the small
blue marble called home.

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Part 1: My picks for #sundayread for December 23, 2018, highlighting the year’s best reads:

• Nora, the Loneliest Polar Bear
  By Kale Williams @sfkale
• I listened to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” twice because it was so powerful and moving.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2mWgf2G
• How Baby Boomers Broke America
  By @StevenBrill
• Fake news is an existential crisis for social media
  By Natasha Lomas @riptari
• You’re mothering wrong.
  By Kim Brooks @KA_Brooks
• What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
  By Gary Greenberg @bookofwoe
• Many Chinas, Many Tables: Stories of Bay Area Chinese cuisines
  From the San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle
• The end of work as we know it
  By James Livingston @annihilista
• I rarely say this: This book changed my life. “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” by @SusanCain is so spot on, I’m buying copies for all my friends.
  [aff. link] http://amzn.to/2HDEsU2
• Police shoot more than twice as many Americans as previously thought
  From @ViceNews
• Diary of a Do-Gooder: The anonymous tasks of everyday activism
  By @SaraEckel
• Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
  By @Jean_Twenge
• The Year the Networks Finally Embraced Diversity
  By @KateAurthur
• Crossville, an immigrant oasis flourishing in red state Alabama
  By Andrew @DesiderioDC

All my #sundayread picks for 2018. And look for Part 2 on Dec. 30.

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Little shop of ho ho’s

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for December 23 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

The best thing about
holiday traditions is
making up new ones.

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The fragile white male
ego, a foul entity
to behold, to know.

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Dark days, darker nights,
a biting cold coupled with
peaceful lifelessness.

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