131. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Internet

“Hip Hop Family Tree,” Ed Piskor

Cross-posted from Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em podcast. Discussed:

• First Sunday Zoom

• Earthquake. Steve Kornacki.

• Eclipse mania

• Jennifer Senior wins award, keeps kicking ass

• “Harmonica virgins”

• Sarah’s new car, picture for paid subscribers only

• Lessons of Isuecardealers.com

• “The True Cost of the Church Going Bust,” by Derek Thompson (Atlantic)

• The Matt Welch

• Everyone meets at Paloma/Nancy’s apartment

• “My Mom Has No Friends,” by Monica Corcoran Harel (The Cut)

• Sarah’s first act of civil disobedience

• “Nut pick” definition

• The Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm

• Ed Piskor Comics Beat

Ed Piskor, 1982-2024

• Don’t give me a gun and tell me not to use it.”

• Bananas bananas bananas

• The best musical of all musicals told at the twilight of the American experiment