Hillbilly Elegy | J.D. Vance This jeans-to-riches memoir describes a childhood that by all rights should have ended in death or incarceration, but instead produced an Ivy League-educated attorney and bestselling author. J.D. Vance, whose Scots-Irish grandparents traveled the “Hillbilly Highway” from Appalachia to southern Ohio in pursuit of the American Dream, credits his survival to […]
Two passings last week. First, and quite unexpectedly, the Moto X2 leapt to its death — from my pocket to the sidewalk — on November 23. It was only one year old. Then on November 26, the XPS 15 9530’s battery, after a three-month struggle with consumption, experienced “complete failure” during a routine reboot. Surviving are the screen, the motherboard, […]
This morning at my usual haunt, I watched as a bearded 20-something — T-shirt and pot-belly — sloshed and sloshed and sloshed his coffee on the condiment counter, stirring it like he absolutely, positively didn’t give a shit. “Dude!” I said, thinking I might snap him out of whatever born-in-a-barn reverie had laid hold of him, but he […]
