Ready for another week of links?
The suffering of children in Syria is so terrible, they need a new term for it. Also in Syria, an article about a Jesuit doing some good work there.
I have been saying from the beginning that Trump voters are not worthwhile human beings- I’m actually not sure we should even consider them human beings at all. You absolutely should not keep Trump-supporting friends and family members in your life. On that note, this.
When everything is so crazy, it’s hard to figure out how to measure the crazy. This is a good guide for that.
I’ve had a really hard time trying to figure out why so many Trump voters refuse to believe real, verifiable facts. This is the first thing I’ve read that actually clicked for me and helped me understand why some of them are that way.
I AM NEVER LEAVING MASSACHUSETTS.
Wednesday was International Women’s Day. While feminism on the Internet often infuriates me, some feminists do say things that really click with me, and one of them is the great writer Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. Also, here’s how so many unqualified men end up in positions of power.
I’d never heard of Charley Parkhurst, a stagecoach driver in the 1800s who was born Charlotte and eventually ended up living as a man, but his story is fascinating. I looked it up this week after a friend told me it had come up in a reading she did with her fourth-grade class.
Okay, this is pretty funny.
I am SO excited to see Come From Away in May! Even more so now that I’ve heard the whole cast recording.
I love cursive, and I almost always write in cursive rather than printing (I mean, it’s faster! You don’t have to lift the pen!) so this is welcome news.
This is beautiful and romantic and touching.
This, though? This actually really disturbed me. I mean, if it makes that woman happy, great, but the idea of being in a similar situation is horrifying to me.
Dating is hard and awful, but it sounds like it might be even worse in the cities this writer visited.
A couple of links more personal to me- my old high school had a lot of cool murals done by students over the years, and turns out there are pictures of most of them online. Also, here’s a nice article about Stacy DeBroff, whom I interned for in college. (I walked, though, so I wasn’t one of the ones clogging up the driveway!)
Some food for thought:
And let’s end with this- a cool, bizarre, surreal animated short that was nominated for an Oscar a few years ago: