Very Ordinary Men (The Point Magazine)
A review of Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk in which the
reviewer actaully criticizes the biography, and not the man, for
producing an uninteresting hagiography. Money quote, "Walter Isaacson
is the perfect writer for the biographies of our times because he
appears to be a born sycophant, and fate decreed that he would be in the
right position, at the right moment, to spread as much propagandistic
bullsh%$ as possible."
Falling Down is a great movie. I saw as an engineer working in defense who had been laid off. I walked out of the theater feeling like I had been punched in the gut.
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