James Fallows: ‘Jimmy Carter Was a Lucky Man’

Kelly Hooper, reporting for Politico on 9 January 2021: The Biden Inaugural Committee on Saturday released its list of donors, which included Google, Microsoft, Boeing and several other major corporations. The list contains all contributors who donated more than $200 to President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony and related...

Hard not to think of this clip today, re: an egomaniacal villain, whose worldview is frozen several decades in the past, setting the terms for an extortion racket.  ★

Fascinating piece by Ben Cohen for The Wall Street Journal (News+ link): And there are two things I learned about the EUV tool I saw that I can’t get out of my head: ASML teamed up with a German optical company to develop mirrors so flat that if they were scaled up to the size of Germany itself, their largest imperfection would be less than a...

Axios co-founder Mike Allen: Apple CEO Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to President-elect Trump’s inaugural committee, sources with knowledge of the donation tell Axios. [...] Cook, a proud Alabama native, believes the inauguration is a great American tradition, and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity, the sources...

There are metaphors, and then there are metaphors. Happy New Year.  ★