We live in an era now where if you don’t take sides, both sides hate you.

– Jay Leno

Pretty much.

Jason Snell on Steven Levy’s observation that “the last great product by Steve Jobs” is Apple Park:

Apple Park is an Apple product through and through. The company took great care to make design decisions, and create custom hardware, at many key points—from the massive glass sheets that required the building of a gigantic furnace, to the toilets, to the handles on the doors, to the pizza boxes in the cafeteria. It’s a one-off product designed by Apple for itself, yes, but it seems to have received the same attention to detail as any other major product launch.

And the Trump transition team knew.

“I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people.”

Crazy story from Steven Frank and Panic. Love those guys and use their software almost everyday.

Sounds bad. My sympathies to the victims.

Two dozen paragraphs before Microsoft/Windows is mentioned and doesn’t even explicitly state this is a Windows-only vulnerability. Maybe that is just taken for granted?

James Fallows is at his best spelling out the very worst in American politics.

And a similar sentiment was also put into fine relief for The New York Times by Luke A. Nichter, a presidential historian at Texas A&M University:

To be Trumpian is something of a greater magnitude than simply being Nixonian.

If there has been a piece of legislation in our lifetimes that boiled over with as much malice and indifference to human suffering, I can’t recall what it might have been. And every member of the House who voted for it must be held accountable.

Perhaps this bill will never become law, and its harm may be averted. But that would not mitigate the moral responsibility of those who supported it. Members of Congress vote on a lot of inconsequential bills and bills that have a small impact on limited areas of American life. But this is one of the most critical moments in recent American political history. The Republican health-care bill is an act of monstrous cruelty. It should stain those who supported it to the end of their days.

– Paul Weldman (via DF)

If there has been a piece of legislation in our lifetimes that boiled over with as much malice and indifference to human suffering, I can’t recall what it might have been. And every member of the House who voted for it must be held accountable.

Perhaps this bill will never become law, and its harm may be averted. But that would not mitigate the moral responsibility of those who supported it. Members of Congress vote on a lot of inconsequential bills and bills that have a small impact on limited areas of American life. But this is one of the most critical moments in recent American political history. The Republican health-care bill is an act of monstrous cruelty. It should stain those who supported it to the end of their days.

– Paul Weldman (via DF)