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My picks for #sundayread for July 21, 2019:

• I listened to “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton, a lovely clear-eyed look at 20th-century South Africa just before apartheid.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2XQDvo9
• Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
  By @ArthurBrooks
• Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Presidential Campaign?
  By @AdamEntous
• Flashback: Brands and Twitter: Follow for life
• Blank Place: Punk Rock’s Richard Hell after Lexington
  By @AmandaPetrusich
• The South’s Greatest Jewish Poet Strikes Zen Gold: A visit with @HankLazer in Tuscaloosa
  By @JakeMarmer
• Flashback: 10 things you didn’t know about surgeon general Dr. Regina Benjamin
• .@JJWatt intended to raise $200K for Hurricane Harvey relief in Houston. He got over $37 million.
  By @RobertKlemko
• .@JoseAltuve27, a small baseball player with a big record and big heart
  By Tom Verducci
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — Slides from Y’all Connect 2013
• 25 episodes that changed television
  By Emily VanDerWerff @tvoti
• Social Engineering: @OxfordAmerican visits Birmingham’s Atomic Bar and Lounge
  By @JohnTEdge
  #Bham
• The legend of @TerryMcAuliffe
  By @RubyCramer
• “The world may … take the Seattle music phenomenon seriously, but Seattle musicians are still struggling to do the same.”
  By @AlanSiegelDC

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: It’s still soccer season

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 21 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 14, 2019:

• I listened to “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present” by @DavidTreuer, an excellent account of modern American Indian history and why it matters.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/30nYRWG
• Her book recommendations drive sales and word of mouth. It’s @TodayShow’s @JennaBushHager.
  By @DavidCanfield97
• God’s Plan for @Mike_Pence
  By @McKayCoppins
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Birmingham dome deal a done deal
  #Bham #alpolitics
• I’m Wade, and I’m addicted to dissections of the implosion of the AAF.
  By @SethWickersham and @MikeRothstein
• When Fandom Is the Problem
  By Katharine Trendacosta @k_trendacosta
• Flashback: Y’all Connect — As diverse a lineup as you deserve
• An Architect’s Guide to Stairs
  By @Architizer
  (via @spacestation_hq)
• The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence
  By Julie Sedivy @soldonlanguage
  (via @smartergerman)
• Flashback: Five ways to jump-start your job search with social networking
• Screen time is rising, reading is falling, thanks to seniors 65+ watching more TV.
  By Christopher Ingraham @_cingraham
• A Different World: Why We Owe the Cosby Accusers an Apology
  By @MaxGordon19
• Violence in Blue: Police Homicides in the United States
  By Patrick Ball @vm_wylbur
• How the Index Card Cataloged the World
  By Daniela Blei @tothelastpage

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Two wheels, no problem

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 14 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for July 7, 2019:

• Listened to “Heavy,” Kiese Laymon’s memoir: Raw and compelling, all about growing up black and poor in the South.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2XO5Dr2
• The Great Unravelling: The Disintegration of the Nigerian State
  By @ChrisNgwodo
  (via @AfricaResearch)
• She’s worth $400 million. She reaches almost 10 million viewers daily. All rise for @JudgeJudy Sheindlin.
  By Jazmine Hughes @jazzedloon
  //Plus, a brief counterpoint by Sarah Jaffe @Sarahwinifred
• Flashback: From 2018, Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 46
  #poetry
• Maria Sebregondi, Moleskine founder, takes note of the digital age
  By Hannah Roberts @hanrobs
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• From 2011: Stephon Marbury’s Career Makeover in China
  By Wells Tower
  (via @natashakhanhk @suilee)
• Flashback: 10 years ago, John Katopodis guilty of mail, wire fraud
  #Bham #alpolitics
• Eight Women Accuse Max Landis of Emotional and Sexual Abuse
  By Amy Zimmerman @ahzimm
  #MeToo
• On Truth and Lying in the Extra German Sense
  By Rebecca Schuman @pankisseskafka
• Flashback: Developing a retail content strategy
• Oral history of “In Living Color” on its 25th anniversary
  Compiled by @MaraReinstein
• Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth
  By @ByNinaMartin and Renee Montagne @nprmontagne
  (via @nprnicole)
• A Campaign to Crack Down on Massage Businesses May Harm the Women It Wants to Help
  By @MelissaGira Grant and @Emma_A_Whitford
• The Man Who’s Putting More Sex Toys on Walmart’s Shelves
  By @KatieVanSyckle
  (via @petershankman)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Independence Day!
• The Birmingham channel: Door busters

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for July 7 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Drone footage of fireworks on Red Mountain

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Happy birthday, America!

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My picks for #sundayread for June 30, 2019:

• Listened to “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” a collection of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic essays, including stellar reads “The Case for Reparations” and “My President Was Black.”
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2FDWIOw
• Body Cameras and Tasers Rake in Billions for Axon, But They’re No Panacea for Police Violence
  By Jonathan Ben-Menachem @jbenmenachem
  (via @drrjkavanagh @diane_o_lucas)
• Wasted Funds, Destroyed Property: How Alabama Sheriffs Undermined Their Successors After Losing Reelection
  By @ConnorASheets
  #alpolitics
• Flashback: The fight for media attention
• Prescription Drugs May Cost More With Insurance than Without It
  By @CharlesOrnstein and @Katie_Thomas
  (RT @HDuggalMD)
• A Failure to Heal
  By @DrSidMukherjee
  (via @LillyTrials)
• Listened to “Steppenwolf” by Hermann Hesse: A mind trip that gave me pause. Maybe I need to re-read it to better grasp it.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2RGvoEo
• Lake Chad: The World’s Most Complex Humanitarian Disaster
  By Ben Taub
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• “You Can’t Say It Doesn’t Exist”: A Curator on the Art of Latin American Women from 1960 to ’85
  By Elisa Wouk Almino @ewoukalmino
  (via @18thStreetArts)
• Flashback: Freedom
• The Day the Music Burned: What really happened in the 2008 Universal fire
  By @JodyRosen
• “The Mueller Report: Vol. I,” now available as a free streaming audiobook from @HooplaDigital.
• Book excerpt from “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal” by @EJeanCarroll
• The Battle Between Action and Belief
  By @MargaretAtwood
  (via @lcle)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Reigning queens

More #sundayread:

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

Photo: Wilson Huang (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for June 23, 2019:

• Check out my new haiku site, http://wadesdailyhaiku.com.
  #haiku #poetry
• Under Trump, EPA Has Slowed Actions Against Polluters, and Put Limits on Enforcement Officers
  By @EricLiptonNYT and @Danielle_Ivory
  (via @ShapingYouth)
• 8 Unpopular Truths About Christianity, from “The Color of Compromise” by @JemarTisby
  By Chanté Griffin @yougochante
  (via @karlaarcher)
• I listened to “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng @pronounced_ing, an interesting mystery and family drama with an unsatisfactory resolution. Points for effort.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2Y2vU1w
• South Sudan’s youth cope with war by partying in the day time
  By Lily Kuo @lilkuo
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• The Forgotten History of America’s Radical Asian Activists
  By Clio Chang @cliomiso
• Flashback: Slides from Y’all Connect 2014
• Survey: How we use YouTube
  By @Aaron_W_Smith, Skye Toor and Patrick van Kessel @pvankessel
  (via @JamieJBartlett)
• The Aldi effect: How one discount supermarket transformed the way a nation shops
  By Xan Rice
  (via @Amelia_Torode)
• Flashback: 10 years ago: City Stages festival ends its run in debt
  #Bham
• .@NYTmag profile of Fox News personality @SeanHannity
  By @MatthewShaer
• The absurdly high cost of insulin explained
  By Julia Belluz @juliaoftoronto
  (via @Laur_Katz)
• The Secret to Long Life? It May Lurk in the DNA of the Oldest Among Us.
  By @Amy_Harmon
  (via @HCAssistance)
• Unleashed in Paris
  By @KateGavino

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Perfect pitch

More #sundayread:

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

My picks for #sundayread for June 16, 2019:

• The new Wade Kwon resume site — let me know what you think.
  https://findadreamjobfor.wadekwon.com
• Bribes for blogs: How brands secretly buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company and HuffPost stories
  By @Jon_Christian
  (via @notryan)
• Former Jehovah’s Witness @AmberScorah on committing the one unforgivable sin: believing, then not believing
  By @JacquelineAlnes
• I listened to @DorisKGoodwin’s “Team of Rivals,” a masterful dissection of President Lincoln’s political prowess and winning demeanor.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2WGzEJK
• The Secret History of @TigerWoods
  By Wright Thompson
  (via @Lana)
• How to Get Your Mind to Read
  By Daniel T. Willingham @DTWillingham
  (via @WashingtonStand)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – A guide to getting the most out of any conference
• .@RachelBros nahan’s Comic Timing
  By @RachSyme
• The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it “biohacking.”
  By @MonicaHesse
  (via @ranimolla @kimseverson)
• Flashback: Five urgently needed blog topics for Birmingham
  #Bham
• Book excerpt from “Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America’s Dad” by Nicki Weisensee Egan @nweisenseeegan
• The Making of a YouTube Radical
  By @KevinRoose
• Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
  By @RayDalio
  (via @ndeltoro)
• The man who sold shares of himself for $1 apiece
  By Zachary Crockett @zzcrockett
  (RT @neoteryx)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Cashing out

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 16 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for June 9, 2019:

• “Pilgrim’s Progress,” by John Bunyan … I read the world’s first English novel, and well, the novel’s come a long way since.
• How Birmingham is battling its high homicide rate
  By Katherine Webb-Hehn @KAWebb_
  #Bham
• More than 5,000 new arrivals a day enter the US from Central America, departing border towns by the busload, usually Greyhound.
  By Miriam Jordan @mirjordan
  (via @kimseverson)
• Flashback: Seven steps to get your company blogging
• A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death
  By Norimitsu @OnishiNYT
  (via @Wes_Andrews)
• Face Blindness
  By @SarahLyall
• Flashback: The best customer service on social media is often mundane
• Eudora Welty, a Perfect Lady
  By Claudia Roth Pierpont
• Ta-Nehisi Coates and @MrEddieHuang talk race, cultural appropriation
  By Apollo Soléy Enki @oleysoley
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – 36 hours in Birmingham
  #Bham
• The Feminist Paradox of Cathy Guisewite
  By @RachSyme
  #ACK
• .@TonyRobbins Berated Abuse Victims; Former Followers Accuse Him of Sexual Advances
  By @Jane__Bradley and @KatieJMBaker
• As cod makes its comeback in Newfoundland, concerns about sustainability arise
  By @JessLeeder
• How to Draw a Horse
  By Emma Hunsinger
  (via @honeystaysuper)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A talent for the mundane

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 9 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Marco Verch (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for June 2, 2019:

• My $10K fund-raiser for Alabama’s Yellowhammer Fund @YellowFund
• Algebra II drives dropout rates. Why not teach statistics instead?
  By @DanaGoldstein
• The Esports Bubble: Shady Numbers and Bad Business
  By Cecilia D’Anastasio @cecianasta
• Flashback: 10 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 13
  https://is.gd/zhH5 #haiku #poetry
• Would You Take Out a Loan for a Pair of Jeans?
  By @Susie_C agle
• How to Deal With Job Search Depression
  By @MicaelaMariniH iggs
• Flashback: Slides from “Market the Right Way with Facebook and Twitter” and “Why Women Will Want Your Blog”
• Death Rattle
  By John Jeremiah Sullivan
• Ain’t Half Bad: “From one stubborn Kentucky rascal to another, thank you.”
  By @LeesaCrossSmith
• Flashback: WordPress Birmingham presentation: The Cheapest Website You Can Do in 60 Minutes
• Excerpt from @JimDeRogatis’ “Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly”
• How San Francisco broke America’s heart: The urban effects of extreme wealth
  By Karen Heller @kheller
  (via @LindaNagata)
• Desperately Seeking Cities: Amazon has bankrupted the ideology it claimed to appeal to: the ideology of “urbanism.”
  By Nikil Saval
• My 22 Crushes
  By @DavyRothbart

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Road trip station

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for June 2 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Video: Talking with vets at the
Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington.

Happy Memorial Day!

Meet veterans of the Korean War as they visit the memorial site in Washington.

Photo: Jeanne Menjoulet (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for May 26, 2019:

• I listened to Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy,” an absolutely critical primer to the crooked justice system in Alabama and elsewhere.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2VYZIiD
• Welcome to Stewart Detention Center, the Black Hole of America’s Immigration System
  By Christie Thompson @cm_thompson3
• Flashback: 10 years ago, BarCampBirmingham by the numbers
• 22 Lessons from @StephenKing on How to Be a Great Writer
  By @MaggieZhangx
• Flashback: Video crash course in metrics
• Who Gets to Decide Who Is an Authority on Food?
  By @RachelKing
  (RT @chrisbrogan)
• “In compelling us to root for a marriage — no small feat in an antihero show — ‘The Americans’ tricks us into rooting for a wife.”
  By @SaraFredman
  (RT @Longreads)
• A long open history of Donald Trump’s racism, Islamophobia
  By @GrahamDavidA, @AdrienneNGreen, Cullen Murphy and @ParkerTRichards
  (via @lisawborden)
• This is what happens when medical professionals don’t believe women.
  By Michele @Lent_Hirsch
  (via @ikepigott)
• Feeling Yourself, a @Mashable series for National Masturbation Month

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Goodest of all time

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for May 26 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

Photo: Marco Verch (CC)

My picks for #sundayread for May 19, 2019:

• I listened to the F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook, “The Great Gatsby.” Always fun to reconnect with an American classic, even as we live under the severe rule of the 1 percent
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2Qb5fwp
• How America’s obsession with long working hours has widened the gender gap
  By Claire Cain Miller @clairecm
  (via @tanyaott1)
• In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.
  @ByKenArmstrong
• Flashback: The personal touch on LinkedIn
• When will the Earth try to kill us again?
  By Howard Lee @HowardYLAPE
• This Generation X project from @NYTimes is a hot mess.
  (via @petershankman)
• Flashback: From 2009, “Survivor” finale live blog with @JenBarnett (spoiler: JT wins!)
• Why Andrea Dworkin is the radical, visionary feminist we need in our terrible times
  By Julie Bindel @bindelj
• How the Hell Has @DanielleSteel Managed to Write 179 Books?
  By Samantha Leach @_sleach
• Flashback: From 2009, interview with “Survivor” winner, Alabama’s James “J.T.” Thomas Jr.
• Why aren’t more women in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
  By @EvelynMcDonnell
• Scam Dunk: How a Bootleg Prep School Profited by Ripping off Teens with NBA Dreams
  By Luke Cyphers @LurkCyphers and @TeriThompson71
• What Really Happened at the DC School Where Every Graduate Got into College
  By Kate McGee @McGeeReports
  (RT @rdlewis)
• An Instagram poet becomes the social media king of women’s empowerment
  By @Juliana_F_Reyes

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Blazer film festival 2019

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for May 19 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for May 12, 2019:

• I listened to Dee Brown’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” or as I call it, the White Nationalists Handbook, a brutal catalog of America’s genocide against Native Americans.
  [aff. link] https://amzn.to/2YgxjBw
• How One Woman’s Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her
  By @BrookeJarvis
• The Curious Rise and Spectacular Crash of the AAF
  By @ConorOrr
• Flashback: 5 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 31
  #haiku #poetry
• The world’s first brain surgery … on a bear
  By @OliFranklin-Wallis
• Rewriting a Symphony in Stone: “Notre Dame burned and we found ourselves, despite our representations and our memories, still pickpocketed by loss.”
  By @SummerBrennan
• Flashback: Fun with branding
• The Colonizer’s Archive Is a Crooked Finger
  By Emmanuel Iduma
  (RT @artwritingSVA)
• Why we find awful movies awfully entertaining
  By @MikeyMusto
• Flashback: From 2009, Alabama on “Survivor”: The Debra Beebe interview
  https://itswa.de/2vBQ0Dq
• Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life into Comedy
  By Vinson Cunningham @vcunningham
• The Uncounted: @NYTimes investigates hidden civilian deaths from coalition airstrikes in Iraq
  By Azmat Khan @AzmatZahra and @Anand_Gopal_
• How an Abuse Victim’s Nerve and a Hidden iPhone Led to the Arrest of a Sundance Founder
  By @Liz_A_Harris
  #MeToo
• A good death
  By @LibbyCopeland
  #sundayread

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Coming attractions

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for May 12 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for May 5, 2019:

• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 49
  #poetry #haiku
• The betrayal: How a lawyer, a lobbyist and a legislator waged war on a North Birmingham Superfund cleanup
  By @StevenMufson
  #Bham #ALpolitics
• Miami Police Arrest Thousands of Homeless But Leave Rapes, Robberies Unsolved
  By @MegOConnor13
• Flashback: I started my blog because …
• None of the President’s Men
  By @SorayaRoberts
  (via @tara_deschamps)
• The Terrible Truth about Alexa
  By @AdamClarkEstes
• Flashback: Make your events winners through consistency
• A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres
  By Alexandra Alter @xanalter
  (RT @kikiochieng)
• Book review of Anne Harrington’s “Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness”
  By @JenSzalai
  (via @2JohnDurant)
• Flashback: Blogging, shilled the radio star
• Profile of Sean Baker, director of the acclaimed “Florida Project”
  By @AnneHelen Petersen
• What I’ve Learned From People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News
  By @LukeONeil47
• The rise of business bullshit in management
  By @Andre_Spicer
  (via @NZPPTA @BisforBerkshire)
• I Think about This a Lot: Marge Simpson’s Pink Chanel Suit
  By Danielle Guercio

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Kiss and makeup

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for May 5 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for April 28, 2019:

• Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”: So glad I finally listened to this classic. Brilliant and mad, a harrowing look at a criminal mind.
  https://buff.ly/2IYLRRT
• This is why we aren’t curing the world’s most curable diseases
  By @KatherineJWu
  (RT @LiberMedia)
• Walking While Black: How Jacksonville fights pedestrian fatalities … and black pedestrians
  By Topher Sanders @ReporterTopher, Kate Rabinowitz @dataKateR and Benjamin @Conarck
• Flashback: 10 years ago, a look at Shift Workspace, one of the first coworking spaces in Birmingham
  #Bham
• .@JamilaWoods and the Poetry of Black Love
  By @JennyGathright
  (via @ForBeginners)
• .@ElonMusk: The Architect of Tomorrow
  By @NeilStrauss
• Flashback: When a blog isn’t right for you
• Author/TV producer David Simon @AoDespair unleashes fury on the concept of “packaging” in Hollywood.
• Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Cash Flow
  By @AmyChozick
• Flashback: Ten years ago, Huntsville fights possible swine flu
• Amy Poehler, Comedy’s Subversive Star, Is Defining Her Own Feminism
  By @MarisaGuthrie
• How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
  Three-part series by @JonathanMahler and @JimRutenberg
• Against Amazon: Seven Arguments, One Manifesto
  By @JorgeCarrion21
  (via @thebookstall)
• What 50-year-old dirty diapers on the moon can teach us about the potential origins of life on Earth
  By Brian Resnick @B_resnick

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: A detour through town

More #sundayread:

• All tweets for April 28 #sundayread
• The latest #sundayread tweets
• More #sundayread recommendations from me