I haven\u2019t run across as many pieces lately that struck me as sharable. So this entry spans over a month of collection. Thus the first is a little out-of-date, and I\u2019m guessing many of you who would be interested in it have already read it.<\/p>\n
Wright Thompson is a modern Gary Smith<\/a>: everything he writes is completely compelling. Especially when he has such an interesting subject.<\/p>\n This is an amazing look at Joe Montana and the person he has become. On one hand, he lives exactly the cool-ass life you would think he lives. On the other, like so many former elite athletes, there are some slights, real and perceived, that he can\u2019t let go of.<\/p>\n This piece is packed with memorable anecdotes. My favorite, though, are the sections that feature Steve Young\u2019s thoughts. Their relationship is fascinating. Not only does Young, maybe, understand Montana as well as anyone can, he clearly still idolizes the man he helped to drive out of San Francisco.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery player in history wants to write more in the book,\u201d Young says. \u201cI think about that all the time.\u201d Joe Montana Was Here<\/a><\/p>\n I was lucky enough to live here in Indy during the Greg Oden era. That was an incredible time. And this is an incredible piece covering his life and career and how he arrived at his current place: an assistant for Butler. I knew a lot of the details of his life, but a few of them in this piece were new to me. Guy has been through a lot. I really hope he can stay healthy and find success in his new path. He always seemed like such a good kid and it seemed so unfair that his body wouldn\u2019t let him even try to reach the expectations that surrounded him.<\/p>\n Maybe Oden\u2019s calling will prove to be at the end of the bench, not the paint. Maybe his potential can be reincarnated. He\u2019s realized that it\u2019s okay to change course, change careers. Sometimes, he thinks about former child actors and how it disheartens him when he sees that people shame them for doing something different as adults. \u201cWhat did you expect them to do? Sit in the house and live off the one thing that you know them from?\u201d Oden says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Greg Oden\u2019s Long Walk Home<\/a><\/p>\n A couple very serious pieces about the state of modern journalism.<\/p>\n It Is Journalism\u2019s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible<\/a><\/p>\n Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don\u2019t exist. It\u2019s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don\u2019t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions. In our case, endangering trans people is the lodestar that shapes our coverage. Frankly, if our work isn\u2019t putting trans people further at risk of trauma and violence, we consider it a failure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR EDITORIAL PAGE COMPLETELY BALANCED, WE ARE HIRING MORE DIPSHITS<\/a><\/p>\n Why do we hire dipshits? It\u2019s simple. After the 2016 election, we got yelled at a lot by right-wingers. How could you report such negative stories about Trump by printing the words he says? Why don\u2019t 100% of your stories talk about Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails, rather than just the ones on the front page? They had a point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Stephen Hyden went to a Bruce Springsteen concert last week. I loved his summary, in which he addressed the elephant in the room. One of my biggest music regrets is that I\u2019ve never seen Springsteen live, and likely never will.<\/p>\n Watching Sunday\u2019s concert overall felt like closing a circle. It reminded me of a genre movie where a gang decides to team up for one caper, in the hopes that they can eventually walk off forever into the sunset.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nHis voice gets softer.
\n\u201cNo matter how much you write,\u201d he says, \u201cyou want to write more.\u201d
\nYoung goes quiet.
\nThen says, \u201cI\u2019ve talked to you more about this than he and I would ever consider talking about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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