This is an unprecedented piece, as far as I know.

"The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making."

What a great, succinct way to put it.

"Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright."

This is truly confounding to me. How conservatives have embraced someone so disconnected from their principles---often at odds with them---is disturbing.

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration (Published 2018)

I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.

www.nytimes.com

Easiest quiz ever.

I've got lights for both my bar and helmet. While "both" is the real answer to the question, it becomes a bit more subtle if you can have only one. For climbing, I prefer the light on the bar, mostly because it's easier to have a lower-powered light on the bar, since you're always pointing it relatively close in front of you, and for a consistent low power to not be a problem.

For riding at any sort of speed on singletrack, though, the helmet is the only way to go. As you turn a corner, you're likely to be looking deep into the turn---deeper than the turn of your bars. In some cases, you'll be countersteering your light into someplace else altogether. Having the light track where you're looking is the best answer if there's only one light to be had, in my opinion.

Update September 6, 2018: Last evening, I happened to go on the first ride in months that required me to use a light. I had both helmet and bar lights with me, but they were in my pack, not mounted. The bar light was easiest to throw on to finish the ride, and it wasn't yet completely dark, so I put just that one on. (I had the linked article in mind as I made this decision.) The other person I was riding with also---uncharacteristically---used only a bar light.

It got us to the end of the ride, which is a singletrack downhill, but I can say with even more certainty that this is easily the worst of the three choices proposed by the article. My riding partner commented unprompted on how much harder it was to ride with just a bar light. When I told her about the article, she agreed it's wrong.

Which is better for night riding: Helmet or bar mount, or both?

Which is better for mountain biking at night: a bar-mounted light, a helmet-mounted light, or both? We test to see which configuration is the fastest.

www.singletracks.com

RIP Servalan. It was so refreshing to have such a distinctive villain in Blake's 7, one of my favorite sci-fi shows when I was younger.

Jacqueline Pearce: Fans pay tribute to Blake's 7 star

She played the ruthless but stylish Supreme Commander Servalan in the sci-fi TV drama from 1978-81.

www.bbc.co.uk

I hope more states follow suit.

California passes strongest net neutrality law in the country

Now it just needs a signature.

www.theverge.com

Good satire sometimes hurts.

First Amendment Experts Warn Facebook Banning InfoWars Could Set Completely Reasonable Precedent For Free Speech

WASHINGTON—Acknowledging the widespread repercussions from the act of corporate censorship, first amendment experts warned Monday that Facebook’s decision to ban InfoWars could set a completely reasonable precedent for free speech. “If we allow giant media platforms to single out individual users for harassing the families of murdered kindergarteners, it could lead to a nightmare scenario of measured and well-thought-out public discourse,” said Georgetown law professor Charles F. Abernathy,…

www.theonion.com

What a nice photo essay.

"The following stars of Emmy-nominated series also failed to earn acting noms: Cristin Milioti (Black Mirror: USS Callister), Zach Galifianakis (Baskets), Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley), Alison Brie (GLOW), Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), J.K. Simmons (Counterpart) and Mandy Moore and Chrissy Metz (This Is Us)."

I can't believe that J.K. Simmons isn't even nominated for Best Actor. His performance in Counterpart is fantastic. Having just caught up on Black Mirror on the plane last week, I feel like Cristin Milioti should have been given a nod too.

Emmy Nominations Snubs: ‘Modern Family,’ ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Shut Out in Major Categories

The 2018 Emmy Award nomination snubs include 'Modern Family,' 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' 'Arrested Development,' and 'Orange Is the New Black.'

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Polygon has a nice article on the return of the Fantastic Four title. I read the first issue yesterday, and enjoyed it. It does a nice job of setting the stage, but it's pretty clear that the next issue will be the real start of the series.

Whether this means a return to the big screen under the auspices of the MCU---assuming the Disney/Fox merger is successful---remains to be seen, but it has to be a good sign. Now let's hope we can see a good interpretation of the FF in the movie theater. I wonder: Have we seen to many poor recent attempts for a new one to be successful, even if it's good? Maybe if the FF are introduced in the MCU as part of another movie? I just hope we don't have to see their origin again, at least at first.

The Fantastic Four have returned — but where have they been?

Fantastic Four #1, by Dan Slott and Sara Pichelli, hits stands today. But where have Marvel’s first superheroes been all this time?

www.polygon.com

Solid set of images---as always---from The Radavist.