Long Reads

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu May 10, 2018 8:36 am

That is a job I never knew was so intense - or really had thought much about. Thanks for the link, will finish up later.

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Thu May 10, 2018 10:42 am

My Dad Painted The Iconic Cover for Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung,’ And It's Haunted Him Ever Since

https://theoutline.com/post/4490/jethro ... i=fqzz3osa

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:01 pm

I don't know if any of you are planning on seeing "White Boy Rick", but his story is fascinating.

Matthew McConaughey does not appear in the story, but Kid Rock does, as well as Vinnie "The Microwave" Johnson and Inspector Todd from "Beverly Hills Cop".

RSmith · Post by **RSmith** » Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:22 pm

I suspect most have probably read it at some point, but being a bit of a Cold War buff, this is one of the essays I've most enjoyed reading, though not entirely accurate with hindsight.

The related book is also a good read...

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 5:28 pm

Guys - you may know that I am a big Sumo fan - watch more sumo than baseball and (Regular season) hockey combined.

This is a good way to get ready for the next basho (tournament) which starts on the 7th of July. I can send links for the daily highlight updates.

I was in Japan while this particular tournament took place and was in the arena on day 11.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/th ... he-making/

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:44 am

Dangers associated with outsourcing you supply chain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... -companies

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:17 pm

Baloney wrote: ↑Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:44 am Dangers associated with outsourcing you supply chain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... -companies

Great story, and very scary. Interesting to me because I worked for decades at a global supply chain management company.

Post by **brian** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 9:13 am

Good, long read about pro hockey returning to Newfoundland (an ECHL team).

NOTE: It's the Athletic, so subscription needed.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Jan 05, 2019 5:58 pm

This damn article speaks to me in so many ways:

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

I look at a lot of things these days in the perspective of my getting in trouble and coming home early from deployment. I am constantly feeling like I don't do enough work every day or don't do well for myself and those around me. I feel guilty going to a mental health professional to simply talk or maybe getting back from lunch 5-10 minutes later. And it basically boils down to I'm a terrible person because I'm bad at/missing work.

Because, hey! I was burnt out on a deployment over people feeling entitled to redeploy when they thought they should and I was placed in an impossible position to placate them because my commander said so despite it being against instructions and guidance....so I swore out loud in frustration once.

Needless to say, I'm counting every minute of my existence within the military down to when I get to leave it (2 years, 8 months!) and I'm near paranoid I won't be able to retire because someone somewhere thinks I'm not living up to my job description and I get in trouble for some dumb reason. The mental toll I put on myself is unhealthy at times.

But yeah. It's wild to me that there are others who are just done with everything but have to keep going because of false promises ingrained into us when we were young.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:39 pm

I didn't read the article, but the last thing you should feel guilty about is seeing a mental health professional. Anyone who says differently can fuck right off.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sun Jan 06, 2019 1:08 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:39 pm I didn't read the article, but the last thing you should feel guilty about is seeing a mental health professional. Anyone who says differently can fuck right off.

Seconded.

blundercrush · Post by **blundercrush** » Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:06 pm

Holy Shit.

https://features.propublica.org/navy-ac ... h-crystal/

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:34 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 1:08 pm
govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Jan 05, 2019 8:39 pm I didn't read the article, but the last thing you should feel guilty about is seeing a mental health professional. Anyone who says differently can fuck right off.
Seconded.

Thirded. You will be living with you long after you see these people for the last time.

Post by **Sabo** » Thu Feb 07, 2019 9:55 pm

blundercrush wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:06 pm Holy Shit.

https://features.propublica.org/navy-ac ... h-crystal/

That ... is something.

I wish Billy Waterski was still on the Swamp to offer his input.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Feb 07, 2019 10:28 pm

Tweet him!

Square Rob · Post by **Square Rob** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:17 am

I thought this was fantastic.

James Brown: The Circus Singer and The Godfather of Soul

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:55 pm

What a fucked up story...

A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:16 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:55 pm What a fucked up story...

A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions

Read that earlier in the week. Not sure if it tripped my fucked up alarm (so much lying, but not sure that outside of feelings he actually hurt anyone) but worth the time to read.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 4:58 pm

Square Rob wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:17 am I thought this was fantastic.

James Brown: The Circus Singer and The Godfather of Soul

I need a shower after reading that fucked up story.

Call the Coen brothers, this one is made for them.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu May 02, 2019 7:01 am

How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits

It is a disgrace.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu May 02, 2019 7:05 am

Can't link it now, but Bloomberg had an interesting piece on Vanguard yesterday, and what seems to be an improper tax avoidance scheme.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Fri May 10, 2019 2:11 pm

As fucked up as the title would lead you to believe: My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.

Post by **Shirley** » Sat May 11, 2019 9:22 am

mister d wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2019 2:11 pm As fucked up as the title would lead you to believe: My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.

Man. Pretty bleak story all around.

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Sat May 11, 2019 11:14 am

Yeah, he tried to wrap it up talking about more patience with his kids or whatever but it didn’t feel all that much better.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed May 29, 2019 3:34 pm

Dewey Cox Ain’t Dead: An Oral History of ‘Walk Hard’

I love that movie.

Post by **brian** » Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:03 am

Pretty good Atlantic piece on the mystery of Malaysian Air Flight 370.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Jun 17, 2019 11:21 am

brian wrote: ↑Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:03 am Pretty good Atlantic piece on the mystery of Malaysian Air Flight 370.

Forensic examinations of Zaharie’s simulator by the FBI revealed that he experimented with a flight profile roughly matching that of MH370—a flight north around Indonesia followed by a long run to the south, ending in fuel exhaustion over the Indian Ocean. Malaysian investigators dismissed this flight profile as merely one of several hundred that the simulator had recorded. That is true, as far as it goes, which is not far enough.

Of all the profiles extracted from the simulator, the one that matched MH370’s path was the only one that Zaharie did not run as a continuous flight—in other words, taking off on the simulator and letting the flight play out, hour after hour, until it reached the destination airport. Instead he advanced the flight manually in multiple stages, repeatedly jumping the flight forward and subtracting the fuel as necessary until it was gone.

I mean, as the article goes on to detail, while extremely rare there are at least 5 other recent examples of pilots crashing large passenger planes as a means of suicide. It's pretty amazing to me that this "theory" hasn't been given more coverage.

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Sun Jul 14, 2019 8:13 am

The First Responders

Baloney · Post by **Baloney** » Wed Jul 17, 2019 5:44 pm

Perhaps the best dinosaur fossil ever discovered. So why has hardly anyone seen it?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... _clipboard

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:58 pm

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:36 pm

I read that earlier. The main players are like archetypes out of a right-wing fever dream of what liberal/academic life is like.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:03 pm

Really enjoyed this

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:00 am

That was good, chedda.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:49 am

That it reminds me of the Decemberists isn't a bad thing.

Post by **brian** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:37 pm

Good piece about that dipshit who was killed by remote tribesmen in the Andaman Islands.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:39 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:58 pm

That one'll make your blood boil. Those women are the fucking worst.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Jul 24, 2019 2:25 pm

brian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:37 pm Good piece about that dipshit who was killed by remote tribesmen in the Andaman Islands.

This is still one of the dumbest actions I can ever recall knowing anything about.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:15 am

tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 2:25 pm
brian wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:37 pm Good piece about that dipshit who was killed by remote tribesmen in the Andaman Islands.
This is still one of the dumbest actions I can ever recall knowing anything about.

That was a weird article. I mean, it definitely explains the guy's mindset and motivation.

But brian's framing still stands, as does your comment. Dude glamorized the martyrdom of missionaries killed trying to reach remote tribes. Dude got turned into a pin cushion 8 hours after they sent their youngest tribe member out to put an arrow through his chest.

Bro, they don't need your gift of fish and scissors. GTFO.

EdRomero · Post by **EdRomero** » Sun Dec 08, 2019 7:28 am

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us ... car-tissue

Drugs, really bad medical care, and Tim Wakefield - medical expert.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:58 pm

By the great Frank Rich...

What Will Happen to The Trump Toadies? Look to Nixon’s defenders, and the Vichy collaborators, for clues.