Has everyone gone mad? [#13]
Annyeonghaseyo from a chilly Seoul, where the sun isn't rising until about eight o'clock each morning but I wake up in the middle of the night because the infant is sick. Baby coughs are so heartbreaking!
Last weekend we went to Osaka, where there were tons of awesome signs, like this one:
What I've Read
"Has POLITICO lost its mind?" That was the winning quote from the campaign of U.S. presidential candidate Marco Rubio, in a story about Rubio's "water thing," that is, his near-constant need to take sips of water during public speeches. In other great reads, there's how to understand post-truth politics, the most cogent post-Paris read, (from a notable soccer writer, no less) and what infants can teach us about failure and risk.
Gotta love this Chinese billionaire who's on top of his credit card points game, I'm outraged that a Korean lawmaker is using U.S. police abuses to justify crackdowns on free expression in Seoul, and this is an important wake-up call to those of us in the media who humanize white killers without showing the same curiosity about non-white, non-male figures.
What I've Written
Asian millennials got slapped with an even more annoying name — the strawberry generation, because they're soft and tend to bruise easily. OUCH. But in Taiwan, the strawberry generation might be changing the economy into something far more interesting. In non-work blogging, I tried the Japanese meme, "rice ball baby face" on baby Isabel.
Recommendations
1) Have you already binged Master of None on Netflix? Worth it.
2) It's probably all Adele, all the time in the West right now. Even still, I love Adele competing against the other Adeles, and Adele singing with classroom instruments. They just make me really happy.
3) The Paris climate talks are getting into the nitty gritty days now, when things are most thorny for all the nations that must agree to something or else we all drown, eventually. So please consider a donation to the green digital magazine I love and support — Grist. Support climate journalism, and you will be entered to win a trip to Costa Rica. NBD. :)
Merry merry,
Elise