Wes HazardMay 18, 20212 minAn Unnecessary Persistence of MiseryThe 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...
Wes HazardMay 18, 20212 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....
Wes HazardApr 23, 20213 minUnderstandI cannot stop thinking about a short story/novelette that I read earlier this week, Understand by Ted Chiang. The week before last I was...
Wes HazardApr 10, 20213 minFalling 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...
Wes HazardApr 10, 20212 minTrek & The LeftThe Star Trek Communist Hopes Star Trek Can Inspire A Real Revolution - StarTrek.com I have been very fortunate in my...
Wes HazardApr 1, 20212 minWe'll See If This Is AccurateSo... 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...
Wes HazardMar 11, 20212 minHistory 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...
Wes HazardMar 11, 20211 minIt'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...
Wes HazardFeb 15, 20212 minThis Community Has It In Its BonesAmazon isn't exactly hiring goons with cudgels to crack heads but they are using some definite sleazeball tactics in an attempt to thwart...
Wes HazardFeb 15, 20212 minStill The BestHow 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...
Wes HazardFeb 7, 20211 minSpace CokeDuring the undersea salvage effort to recover debris from the Challenger shuttle explosion the Navy discovered 13 shipwrecks, 2 lost...
Wes HazardFeb 7, 20211 minHe has a pointThe headline here makes it seem like we're in for another grandiose self-granted ego stroke from Quentin Tarantino but his nuanced...
Wes HazardFeb 3, 20212 minDid 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...
Wes HazardFeb 2, 20211 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...
Wes HazardJan 29, 20215 minI would watch his biopicMillion Dollar Slice - GrubStreet Whoa, this article went in SO MANY different directions in such an unexpected way and I kind of love it...
Wes HazardJan 28, 20211 minOnce 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...
Wes HazardJan 28, 20211 minHeight? 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...
Wes HazardJan 23, 20212 mina helpful tv paradigmThe Three Kinds of Sitcoms - Fresh Takes, Real Talk This is a light read but a welcome one and a really helpful framework for analyzing...
Wes HazardJan 23, 20211 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...
Wes HazardJan 19, 20211 minJust 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...