Photography.
Plus, I'm bald.Plus I don't want to fill everyone's heart with lust.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) December 31, 2020
- Vagabond Scholar has a round up of the best blog posts of 2020. Those of us who didn’t make the cut can sue or demand recounts.
- If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good cartoon has to be worth at least a hundred. In Hackwhackers we find a few hundred to ponder about COVID, the old, and the New Year.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger shows that Americans are investing a lot of hope in 2021.
- Jonathan Bernstein looks back, finding political bright spots in the year that was, including high-turnout, Mitt Romney’s sudden courage, and a few more.
- Infidel753 looks back to 2020 and before, drawing a dozen political lessons to be applied to 2021 and beyond. I especially agree with the one about chanting dumb things that drive sensible voters away.
At the risk of bruising the delicate sensibilities of our beloved Aunt Tildy, one quote:
There’s no way of knowing how many votes we lost because of talk of abolishing private medical insurance and “defund the police”, but it was probably quite a few. Yes, yes, I know “defund the police really means blah blah” — shut the fuck up.
- John Scalzi at Whatever makes an astute point about the final, long awaited end to 2020. It isn’t quite here yet.
- driftglass celebrates the irony of the turning of the year: an elderly new President chasing out a brat-child old president.
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