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My picks for #sundayread for October 14, 2018:
Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 47
#poetry
Information terrorists have weaponized social media, blogs, vi… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for October 21, 2018:
Vote 2018: Sample ballots for Jefferson, Shelby County general election
#alpolitics #bham
A Field Guide to B… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for October 28, 2018:
Flashback: 10 years ago, Mary Buckelew was the fourth Jefferson County commissioner convicted over the sewer sc… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for November 4, 2018:
Flashback: 10 years ago, the Vote 2008 Election Night live blog, with @JenBarnett and @ChrisOzDavis
#alpolitics
Ameri… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for November 11, 2018:
Vote 2018: Alabama general election results
#alpolitics
Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism?
By Andrew Sullivan @sull… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for November 18, 2018:
Finally read John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces,” and it was delightful. Great… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for November 25, 2018:
Flashback: Vote 2008: The Obama Effect in Alabama
The Populist Morass
By @LehmannChris
(via @SundayLongRead)… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for December 2, 2018:
Listened to “Essays” by Ralph Waldo Emerson twice — a good way to understand his musings on self… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for December 9, 2018:
Flashback: One year ago, Doug Jones beats Roy Moore for a Senate seat from Alabama
#alpolitics
Nobody Believed… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for December 16, 2018:
Listened (twice!) to James Joyce’s “Ulysses” unabridged. Requires further study. Time to… Read More
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Part 1: My picks for #sundayread for December 23, 2018, highlighting the year’s best reads:
Nora, the Loneliest Polar Bear
By Kale Williams @sfkale
I listened… Read More
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Part 2: My picks for #sundayread for December 30, 2018, highlighting the year’s best reads:
School segregation didn’t go away. It just evolved. T… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for January 6, 2019:
Read “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow, kinda like the hit Broadway show but with way less singing… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for January 13, 2019:
Nice to read the original short story for “Arrival” in “Stories of Your Life and O… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for January 20, 2019:
Glad I finally read Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” a wonderfully enriching n… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for January 27, 2019:
First time to review “The Federalist Papers” since high school — never hurts to brush up on the Cons… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for February 3, 2019:
Today is my 10-year anniversary on Twitter. Here’s how I marked 10,000 tweets back in 2010 …
Ageism… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for February 10, 2019:
I revisited Homer’s “The Odyssey” after “Ulysses.” The sections on feasting and murderi… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for February 17, 2019:
Enjoyed @WarrenStJohn’s “Outcasts United,” about an inspiring woman, Luma Mufleh @fugeesfamily, who… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for February 24, 2019:
After listening to David Carr’s “The Night of the Gun,” I learned something important: I d… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for March 3, 2019:
Glad I finally got to read my pal @JamiAttenberg’s novel “The Middlesteins” featuring a Jewish family s… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for March 10, 2019:
I read @EricGreitens’ “Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life,” a great primer on facin… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for March 17, 2019:
I found that @BlaineHarden’s short book “Escape from Camp 14” provides a limited look at life inside N… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for March 24, 2019:
I read “Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle, or as I call it, 4,783 simple rules to live by.
How Federal… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for March 31, 2019:
I finally read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” as relevant as ever, a look at man’s po… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for April 7, 2019:
“One Hundred Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: I hadn’t read it in a long time –… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for April 14, 2019:
I read @GeorgeLakoff’s “Whose Freedom?” a deep dive into t… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for April 21, 2019:
Mueller’s report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election
(I created this do… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for April 28, 2019:
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”: So glad I finally listened to this classic. Brilli… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for May 5, 2019:
Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 49
#poetry #haiku
The betrayal: How a lawyer, a lobbyist and a legislator waged… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for May 12, 2019:
I listened to Dee Brown’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” or as I call it, the White Nationalists… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for May 19, 2019:
I listened to the F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook, “The Great Gatsby.” Always fun to reconnect with an Ameri… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for May 26, 2019:
I listened to Bryan Stevenson’s “Just Mercy,” an absolutely critical primer to the crooked just… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for June 2, 2019:
My $10K fund-raiser for Alabama’s Yellowhammer Fund @YellowFund
Algebra II drives dropout rates. Why not teach s… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for June 9, 2019:
“Pilgrim’s Progress,” by John Bunyan … I read the world’s first English… Read More
My picks for #sundayread for June 16, 2019:
The new Wade Kwon resume site — let me know what you think.https://findadreamjobfor.wadekwon.com
Bribes for blogs: How brands secretly… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for June 23, 2019:
Check out my new haiku site, http://wadesdailyhaiku.com.
#haiku #poetry
Under Trump, EPA Has Slowed Actions Against… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for June 30, 2019:
Listened to “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” a collection of Ta-Nehisi… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for July 7, 2019:
Listened to “Heavy,” Kiese Laymon’s memoir: Raw and compelling, all about growing up black and poor… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for July 14, 2019:
I listened to “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present” by… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for July 21, 2019:
I listened to “Cry the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton, a lovely clear-eyed look at 20th-century South Afri… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for July 28, 2019:
I listened to “Practicing the Power of Now” by @EckhartTolle, a short helpful refresher in mindfulness.
[af… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for August 4, 2019:
Flashback: 10 years ago, my popular monthlong series Birmingham’s Biggest Crooks
http://itswa.de/BMdHl #Bham #alpo… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for August 11, 2019:
Wade’s 101: #Haiku retrospective 50
Lord, give me the confidence (and job prospects) of a mediocre white guy… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for August 18, 2019:
I listened to “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha” by Stephen Mitchell. The path to enlightenment is neither str… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for August 25, 2019:
Another re-reading of “Getting Things Done” by David Allen @gtdguy: A great time for a refresher i… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for September 1, 2019:
Flashback: 5 years ago, I gave up watching football for good.
PPE, the Oxford degree that runs Britain
By An… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for September 8, 2019:
I listened to “The Sun Does Shine”: Anthony Ray Hinton’s compelling story shows the best &mdash… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for September 15, 2019:
I listened to Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” an interesting look at 19th-century Russian societ… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for September 22, 2019:
I listened to @Prof_ErikaLee’s “The Making of Asian America: A History,” a good starter on Asians… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for September 29, 2019:
I listened to “Frankenstein,” all credit to young Mary Shelley for her genius and her creativity.https://… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for October 6, 2019:
Flashback: Wade on Birmingham’s Fourth Anniversary
Riding OD Road
By @RichELord
The Curse of the Bahia E… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for October 13, 2019:
I listened to Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” a powerful, prophetic novel. Read it.
[aff. link] ht… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for October 20, 2019:
I tried to listen to Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” but it was too complicated. I&r… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for October 27, 2019:
I listened to James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and it was even better than the great… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for November 3, 2019:
Ten years ago this week, what were our #sundayread recommendations?https://itswa.de/2V3kYQO
Wrong Way: At 15, Isaiah Ba… Read More
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My picks for #sundayread for November 10, 2019:
I listened to “The Majesty of Calmness” by William George Jordan, a short and worthwhile read on takin… Read More
My weekly #sundayread picks have moved to a new site after 10 years: Sundayread.org.
I hope you’ll check it out, and also follow @Sundayreadorg on Twitter.
The archive of #sundayread p… Read More
Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms, with over a billion active users. Among the many features that Instagram offers, hashtags have become a crucial element of the pl… Read More