On Tiger Woods at the Masters Bigger Than Iraq Invasion and American Christmas
Wow, couple of harsh judgments of Simmons there. Not that I would have expected the Awl to love him or anything, but still.
I mean ok, he's a white guy and so it's pretty easy to take some cheap shots at his racial and sexual politics, but really. He deals honestly with his feelings about race and sex, which is about all you can ask for, and he's consistently entertaining and reasonably knowledgeable about sports, which is more than most sportswriters working today.
But please, don't let any of that get in the way of yet more lazy, obnoxious snark masquerading as discerning taste; this is the Awl, after all.
Posted on March 17, 2010 at 2:29 am
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On Email is Over
Meh. People have been saying this for years, and it's never remotely happened. Email is no longer the *only* form of electronic communication, and perhaps the writing is on the wall, but it won't stop being tremendously useful for pretty much everything for several years at least. It's too simple, versatile, robust, decentralized, ubiquitous and (yes!) efficient to disappear entirely. I work at a tech company and email is constantly being used for pretty much everything, even alongside heavy users of social media.