"End Times" brings to mind apocalyptic calamities, but -- if our demise can come not only with a bang but also with a whimper -- perhaps we will perish, ungrounded, of capriciousness made possible by our vast collective wealth.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/major-furry-convention-canceled-amid-furor-over-nazis-violence-and-a-registered-sex-offender/

Another cute teenage track athlete. The internet gives us one every five years or so.

First call for violence if you don't say the "right" things (and you thought some neighborhoods were dangerous?).

https://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-shut-up-wellesley-students-explained-1492209357

If it has solid gameplay and is fun to play.. Why not?

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisFuture/videos/1373683742672802/

Cultural appropriation?

https://www.christopherfountain.com/blog/2017/4/14/will-the-yale-snowflake-brigade-be-outside-protesting

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/15/fresno-state-professor-who-said-trump-must-hang-apologizes-profusely-flees-fresno/

Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why?

One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them. Subcultures have a predictable lifecycle, in which popularity causes death. Eventually—around 2000—everyone understood this, and gave up hoping some subculture could somehow escape this dynamic.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

https://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-shut-up-wellesley-students-explained-1492209357 gets:

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hey Bob, any other place the article is available?

@Stinky,

There's an Archived copy of that WSJ article:

http://archive.is/C1sE7

Which itself has a link to and archived page of the Wellesley Student newspaper.

Some advice on Easter, cats and flowers:

https://mobile.twitter.com/despairboats/status/853280198703316997/photo/1

We're still screwed.

US Budget Deficit Grows By $176 Billion In March

Hollywood. As usual.

Samuel L. Jackson on Georgia vote: ‘Stop Donald Trump’

There's an Archived copy of that WSJ article:

thanks

You're welcome.

Ugh, I really hate paywalled articles that are nothing more than uh, what? Two to three paragraphs? And it's not even decent stuff, just more Social Justice apologia.