Morning Coffee (6/29/18)

Okay, we REALLY need some happy stuff this Friday.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Red Lipstick Is a Symbol of Change

Starbucks announces unprecedented, comprehensive health benefits for trans employees

IMPORTANT SCIENCE: Mac & Cheese May Be The "Perfect Food," According To This Study That Evaluated Carb & Fat Ratios With Satisfaction

Aah, Discovery of Witches trailer!

Ooh: Inscribed seventh-century window ledge unearthed at Tintagel

This is great: Paul Simon’s ‘What Not to Bring’ List for Farewell Concert Is Astonishingly Thorough

Even the Queen is excited to meet David Beckham.

5 Wine and Cheese Pairings You Need To Try This Summer

Huh: Oreo’s New Cookie Is Better Than A Deep Fried Oreo

Let's run off to a castle.

Morning Coffee (8/23/17)

This Is What It's Like For Girls Growing Up In Gaza

Not sure this MEANS much, but it's kinda incredible that these kinds of stories are coming out this early in the administration: McConnell, in Private, Doubts if Trump Can Save Presidency

When Trump Was Jealous of Jerry Lewis

This is wild: Chinese Novelist Is Arrested in 4 Murders From 2 Decades Ago

!! Wreckage of U.S.S. Indianapolis, Lost for 72 Years, Is Found in the Pacific

Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd

Aw, this is cool: To Hit a Passer and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: A Linebacker’s Two Sides

Found: Ice From 2.7 Million Years Ago

When Milton met Galileo: the collision of cultures that helped shape Paradise Lost

I've heard mixed things about A Discovery of Witches but I'm all for Matthew Goode as a vampire.

Morning Coffee (8/13/16)

Here is your most important weekend reading assignment: Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart (It's long, but worth it.)

This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical

Gay Olympian Amini Fonua Has Words for the Grindr-in-Rio Journalist

Whoa: Arianna Huffington to leave the Huffington Post

At long last, The Wine Show premieres (for the U.S.) on Hulu today. This interview about it with Matthew Goode is a delight.

Vital and fascinating: My Crazy Year with Trump

“A Honeypot For Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment

Awesome: Goodbye to ‘Honeys’ in Court, by Vote of American Bar Association

OH NO: Brewers Are Running out of Pumpkin for Their Autumn Beers

How Left-Handed Penmanship Contests Tried To Help Civil War Vets After Amputation

Morning Coffee (7/11/16)

Me elsewhere: The week's TV news.

Good news! The Wine Show starring Matthew Rhys and Matthew Goode is coming to Hulu on August 13th.

Why is ISIS turning to global terrorism? Because it’s losing.

How IBT’s reporting is driving a controversy over a major healthcare merger in Connecticut

What You Learn from Reading 12 of Donald Trump's Books

This puts things in a rather different light: Rape lawsuits against Donald Trump linked to former TV producer

I don't know much about Tom Perez, so this profile was helpful.

A Ukrainian Kleptocrat Wants His Money and U.S. Asylum

“True Crime Addict” and the Serious Problem of Internet Sleuths

Who Is a Jew? Maybe Not Woman Converted by Esteemed New York Rabbi

Fascinating: How Hawaiian Came Back From the Dead

Morning Coffee (3/5/16)

ICYMI: Friday Five: Media Sites I Can't Live Without

STOP EVERYTHING. We've got a trailer for The Wine Show, which is my new favorite show already. "Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys drink wine and luxuriate in an Italian villa in a new show, because peak TV means that networks are now developing your dreams."

A knife supposedly found at O.J. Simpson's house has surfaced because THAT'S NOT SUSPICIOUS TIMING AT ALL. (Another crazy coincidence - FX is now marathoning the first five episodes of The People v. O.J. Simpson tonight, which is a scheduling decision obviously made in a complete vacuum. BUT the show is really good and this is your chance to catch up! Watch it!)

Can a 3-year-old represent herself in immigration court? (Um. NO.)

Here's an update on the black students asked to leave a Trump event, which, of course, the Trump campaigning is now denying they caused. (If there was any question: I believe these three separate law enforcement agencies over this campaign.)

"It’s not insulting to say that you think you can accomplish more for racial justice than Barack Obama has. It’s insulting to act like you can do it merely by showing up for work."

Jim Webb, what are you doing???????

I was excited to see Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and then I read this.

NOPE: 'Cumberbunnies' will allow you to eat Benedict Cumberbatch this Easter

That crazy people-rating app is finally launching - I was in the contingent who thought it might all be a publicity stunt with no real app, so I was wrong - but they've changed it enough that it's not particularly harmful anymore. I think/hope.

File under "profiles that are fascinating even if you don't care about the person/thing": The New Yorker on TMZ.