Bernie Sits

from WIRED He Made a Viral Bernie Meme Site. Now He Has to Keep It Going Nick Sawhney’s “Bernie Sits” puts Sanders anywhere on Google Street View.  by BRIAN BARRETT BY 9 PM ET last night, Nick Sawhney knew he was in trouble.  Just a half hour...

Space Smuggling

from Reason Space, the Final Smuggling Frontier In a glimpse of a gloriously rule-breaking future, contraband has boldly gone where more is sure to follow. by J.D. TUCCILLE (Reg. Innell/ZUMA Press/Newscom)  On Christmas day, we learned that the ashes of James Doohan,...

The Death of Flash

from The LA Times Why the end of Flash animation marks the end of an era for creativity on the web By CAROLINA A. MIRANDA A message to uninstall Flash appears above a Flash-based work of art by Rafaël Rozendaal titled “Future Physics,” from 2007.(Screengrab by...

THE ODYSSEY Cancelled

from The Wall Street Journal Even Homer Gets Mobbed A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’ By Meghan Cox Gurdon A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers...