Gongol.com Archives: April 2019
April 25, 2019
Headlines that only repeat name-calling aren't useful
The President had some insults to lob at Joe Biden after Biden's campaign announcement this morning. Repeating those insults as headlines is not productive journalism. It's lazy amplification of the voices most willing to say the most outrageous things. Journalism isn't stenography.
Filming begins on the last Bond film starring Daniel Craig
It's the 25th of the genre, and planned for release in April 2020. Sean Connery will always be the iconic Bond, but Daniel Craig turned 007 into a human character with real depth. That utterly transformed the franchise for the better. It makes the movies more interesting and less kitschy.
Wherefore art thou, copy editors?
Glaring errors now make it past the "draft" stage and straight into subscriber inboxes
Do tax credits for electric vehicles really save the planet?
The evidence suggests that the kinds of people who are going to buy electric vehicles would have bought high-efficiency vehicles anyway, so the marginal difference may be limited. And that probably makes sense: Efficiency-sensitive drivers probably form a class unto themselves anyway.
A poor review for Joe Biden's campaign logo
Few things about 2019 are as amusing as the degree to which Jonathan Last takes his feelings about these candidate logos.
Super-tall thunderstorm complexes may be damaging the ozone layer
When a storm top overshoots, it may be funneling ozone-depleting conditions up into the stratosphere
The CDC says there have been more than 600 cases of measles in the United States since the start of the year. And it's the fault of people choosing not to vaccinate.
