Whipped Cream Difficulties

Thinking about the WP sale some more:

• I don’t think I was clear in my implication yesterday. Yes, the reports are that Bezos is going to run it as an independent company, instead of an arm of Amazon. I question how long that’s going to last: does Bezos want to be Charles Foster Kane? (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Or is he playing a long game here?
• Interesting point from the NYT: the sale does not include Slate (or The Root and Foreign Policy). I wonder how much longer Slate has.

We must do something about the deadly killer trees! (See also.)

To celebrate his birthday, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is presenting live-streaming around-the-clock video of two key venues: the church where Warhol was baptized and the grave where he is buried, both in Pennsylvania.

(Insert joke about “Empire” here.)

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