Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander
@brianralexander
Books: Glass House, The Hospital, The Mayor. . Past: Atlantic/Wired/Outside/Washington Monthly/MIT Tech Review/Janitor/Gas Station Attendant/Lifeguard. Subscribe to my newsletter Speaking: BrightSight.
Williams County, OH. Lotta fake news smoke from Canada.
Wrote six books and tons of magazine stories in this chair. Lots of “meals” and coffee and a few glasses of stronger stuff. It’s earned its retirement. So long, chair!
Don "Art of the Deal" Trump. Way to go, Don!
Readers of Glass House sometimes ask what the inside of the Anchor Hocking glass factory looks like. Here's a photo from today's Lancaster, Ohio newspaper, the Eagle-Gazette.
I like how the NYT is inserting these perfunctory comments from Trump officialdom as a way of saying "We had to ask for comment, here's their boilerplate, and you should regard it as B.S."
I don't get why this is considered a problem. I just care that the count is accurate.
My old friends often ask, "How come you're not a pro sports fan any more?"
I cannot tell you how much I love the fact that Raymond Berry and Johnny Unitas look like a couple of IBM engineers in this photo.
Yes, yes, yes! A thousand times, yes! Listen to @jamellebouie.net
It's about goddamn people started being rude.
This young woman is this year's valedictorian of my high school alma mater. Small city, central Ohio, tiny school, hispanic valedictorian. No matter how much the racist MAGA people demand it, the nation isn't going back. Stephen Miller has failed.