The Carry On Cocktail Kit →

W&P Design and Punch:

The Carry On Cocktail Kit provides everything you need to mix two proper Old Fashioned cocktails at 30,000 feet. Simply carry on your kit (don't worry, it will make it through security just fine), order a mini-bottle of bourbon, and use the custom combination bar spoon / muddler to mix in the included cane sugar and small-batch bitters.

You are now free to cocktail about the cabin.

A neat little gift for the people in your life who fly a lot and enjoy a decent cocktail.

/via The Fox is Black

Enough is Enough: Michael Brown, Abner Louima, and the Anguish of Police Brutality →

Edwidge Danticat:

I have seen police brutality up close. Both in Haiti, where I was born during a ruthless dictatorship, and in New York, where I migrated to a working-class, predominantly African-American and Caribbean neighborhood in Brooklyn at the age of twelve. In the Haiti of the nineteen-seventies and early eighties, the violence was overtly political. Government detractors were dragged out of their homes, imprisoned, beaten, or killed. Sometimes, their bodies were left out in the streets, in the hot sun, for hours or days, to intimidate neighbors.

In New York, the violence seemed a bit more subtle, though no less pervasive. 

Be sure to stay focused.

Richard Scarry’s Busy Town in the 21st Century →

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Donald Hall’s ‘Garlic with Everything’ →

Donald Hall:

Going to Hamden High School I discovered garlic. Spring Glen Grammar School was suburban middle class and pale. At Hamden High I first heard “Paisan!” shouted from one friend to another. In the decades between the wars, immigrants by the thousands arrived from Calabria and Sicily. Our basketball team was composed of set-shooters who averaged five foot two. As I joined the society of Hamden High, I rejected Spring Glen’s culture because it sniffed at people with accents. I hung out with friends who were second-generation Italians, and they altered my diet. In pizza joints I began my romance with garlic. It’s hard to believe, but at that time pizza was exotic. In most American cities there were no places that served pizza, much less chains of Pizza Huts, Domino’s, Papa Gino’s, Pizza Chefs, and Little Caesars. Except in southern-Italian neighborhoods, pizza was unknown coast to coast. Even in northern Italy people didn’t know pizza. In 1951 I asked for pizza in a Florentine restaurant. The waiter was puzzled. He disappeared into the kitchen, and when he came back he told me I could have it tomorrow. Did the chef find it in a cookbook? The next day he brought me the worst pizza I have ever eaten—pasty, doughy, tasteless except for garlic. I am told that Florence has pizza parlors now.

This is a perfect fifteen minutes of reading to sand down the rough edges of the memories of yesterday’s consumption.

Thanksgiving with Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rothko →

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From Hannah Rothstein’s ‘How Famous Artists Would Plate Thanksgiving Meals.’ Make sure you click through to see the rest.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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In Other News, The Latest from the ‘No Shit’ Department →

Zack Beauchamp:

Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is one of the most important donors in the Republican party. He more-or-less singlehandedly kept Newt Gingrich's 2012 presidential hopes alive for months. So it is a big deal that Adelson reportedly dismissed Sen. Ted Cruz, thought to be a top contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, as "too right wing" and "a longshot."

There has already been an update to the article. The update receives a ‘No Shit’ rating as well.

The Case for Policing Reform is Much Bigger Than Michael Brown →

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Conor Friedersdorf:

As a longtime proponent of sweeping reforms to the criminal justice system, I'm extremely apprehensive of the impulse to treat the killing of Michael Brown as a focal rallying point, even granting that the case has mobilized people and attention. His death is a perfect illustration of the need for dashboard cameras on every patrol vehicle and lapel cameras on every police officer in America. The way officials in Ferguson reacted to the protests over his death did illustrate the alarming militarization of U.S. police agencies. But when it comes to the problem of police officers using excessive force, including lethal force, against people they encounter, there are scores of cases that better illustrate the problem.

Focus.

A War Machine That Uses You as a Battery

There is no person, group, or ideology that owns the patent on anger.

Republicans Finally Admit That There is No Benghazi Scandal →

Kevin Drum:

Read that list again. Late on a Friday afternoon, when it would get the least attention, a Republican-led committee finally admitted that every single Benghazi conspiracy theory was false. There are ways that the response to the attacks could have been improved, but that's it. Nobody at the White House interfered. Nobody lied. Nobody prevented the truth from being told.

I wonder if this report’s findings will be as publicized on the Right as the nuttiness leading up to it was.

I’m not holding my breath.

The Typography of ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ →

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Lola Landekic and Jessica Hische:

With that new direction in mind, how many different iterations did you go through?

Oh, I don’t even know — hundreds! Haha. It was less iterations on the style as a whole and more like, micro-changes. Certain letters got a lot more love than others. Wes’s favorite letter to criticize was the capital F and maybe, I think, the lowercase ‘r’ went through a lot of rounds. I really like how the caps turned out. I feel like it has a really good personality to it and not too much swashiness. It feels really classic and also down to earth, somehow.

But of course Wes Anderson had a favorite capital letter to criticize. And the best news? You can now purchase the typeface: Tilda.

/via kottke.org