Peter Suderman writing for The New York Times:

The flaws of [AHCA], then, can be understood as a symptom of the flaws of the Republican Party, which has for decades maintained a myopic focus on tax cuts at the expense of nearly all else. Too often, it is a party of people who seem to confuse governing with cutting taxes.

Emphasis added.

Doug Glanville writing for The New York Times:

Baseball gives us a chance to see ourselves in everyone, at times reflecting the image of some complex and difficult shadows in our society. That is a big step toward mutual understanding. As hard as it is, we need to see ourselves in the fans who were ejected. Having biases is human, our flawed yet efficient way to create shortcuts in our lives. But we need to check them more honestly if we are to really understand how to move forward.

The band Poolside has a new to me and very amazing cover of this middle era Neil Young classic.

One of the Best Criticisms of a Superhero Story Ever Told

Nick Heer (via Michael Tsai):

[U]sers should have always been viewing search results with much more scrutiny than they do. But many people are lulled into believing that Google’s representation of the truth is the correct one. Their rich snippet answer box made this already-pervasive belief far worse by highlighting a single piece of a webpage as, seemingly, The Answer, even for questions where The Answer doesn’t exist. That’s a deliberate design decision on Google’s part, and one that should be reversed.

I secretly hope that if I stick with RSS long enough, it will be cool again.

– Gabe Weatherhead, who keeps all of his best secrets hidden in footnotes