Wes Hazard
An Unnecessary Persistence of Misery
The case for canceling student debt - Vox Student debt in America needs to go. It's hardly the only ill that needs fixing but it will...
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Wes Hazard
- May 17, 2021
- 2 min
"Magic Actions"
Magic Actions: Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion - n+1 Damn. I don't have enough adjectives for this one. Vast. Heavy....
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Wes Hazard
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
Understand
I cannot stop thinking about a short story/novelette that I read earlier this week, Understand by Ted Chiang. The week before last I was...
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Wes Hazard
- Apr 9, 2021
- 3 min
Falling Down... With A Plan
'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death - The Guardian (2017) Beyond a history nerd's appreciation...
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Wes Hazard
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Trek & The Left
The Star Trek Communist Hopes Star Trek Can Inspire A Real Revolution - StarTrek.com I have been very fortunate in my...
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Wes Hazard
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
We'll See If This Is Accurate
So... everyone seems to think clubhouse is the "next big thing" - but I think it's going to fail. - @ShaanVP (Tweet Thread) I got on the...
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Wes Hazard
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
History Throwback: To Be Black, In Brooklyn, And In Business at the turn of the 20th Century.
The Negro in Business in Greater New York - The Colored American Magazine Vol. X, No.3 (March, 1906) Here we have an image captured from...
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Wes Hazard
- Mar 11, 2021
- 1 min
It's Quote O'Clock
"Cosmological myth (circa AD 2500): 'At the end of the Fifth Sun Age, the god Computer, weary of the forgetfulness and debauchery that...
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Wes Hazard
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
This Community Has It In Its Bones
Amazon isn't exactly hiring goons with cudgels to crack heads but they are using some definite sleazeball tactics in an attempt to thwart...
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Wes Hazard
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
Still The Best
How Prince Won The Super Bowl - Anil Dash We're about as far away from the next Super Bowl as we can possibly get so as we enter the NFL...
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Wes Hazard
- Feb 7, 2021
- 1 min
Space Coke
During the undersea salvage effort to recover debris from the Challenger shuttle explosion the Navy discovered 13 shipwrecks, 2 lost...
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Wes Hazard
- Feb 7, 2021
- 1 min
He has a point
The headline here makes it seem like we're in for another grandiose self-granted ego stroke from Quentin Tarantino but his nuanced...
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Wes Hazard
- Feb 3, 2021
- 2 min
Did the Mayor Kill A Groundhog?
I didn't move to NYC in time to ever vote for or against him, and it took me a while to begin to get my bearings in local politics but...
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Wes Hazard
- Feb 2, 2021
- 1 min
"No, No Susan."
OK I’m thinking we can get at least a feature film, if not a 4 part docu-series about this specific moment in Black History - I like...
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Wes Hazard
- Jan 29, 2021
- 5 min
I would watch his biopic
Million Dollar Slice - GrubStreet Whoa, this article went in SO MANY different directions in such an unexpected way and I kind of love it...
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Wes Hazard
- Jan 28, 2021
- 1 min
Once again I've missed instant fortune. Oh well.
Crowd Sourcing a Short Squeeze via Reddit While Nuking a Hedge Found and on Behalf of Gamestop For Dummies. In this week's edition of...
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Wes Hazard
- Jan 28, 2021
- 1 min
Height? Check. Dedication? Check. Advantageous mental quirk? Possibly.
Writer/commentator/real-talker Michael Harriot is one of my favorite Twitter follows. Anytime he has "A Thread:" on an aspect of Black...
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Wes Hazard
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
a helpful tv paradigm
The Three Kinds of Sitcoms - Fresh Takes, Real Talk This is a light read but a welcome one and a really helpful framework for analyzing...
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Wes Hazard
- Jan 23, 2021
- 1 min
"Don't you think you're overreacting????"
Haddonfield’s Teens Just Want to “Cancel” Michael Myers - McSweeney's LOL. McSweeny's is once again on point with this satire re: the...
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Wes Hazard
- Jan 19, 2021
- 1 min
Just so we're clear on stakes here...
Above is a quote from The Handmaid's Tale which has haunted me ever since I read it a few years ago and which I included in a piece I...
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