Brian Lyman
Editor, Alabama Reflector. Podcaster, Becoming Lincoln. 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Past: MGM Advertiser; Press-Register; The Anniston Star; Norwich Bulletin; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Politics, history, science, horrific puns.
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- Some personal news. I'll be leaving STAT to take up what is a dream job for me, and a critical position in a time when science journalism is threatened on so many fronts. I look forward to supporting my colleagues, and the field itself, as much as I can. ksj.mit.edu/news/2025/05...
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- "Corgis rule everything around me."
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- This ends Chicago’s 266 pope losing streak
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- Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
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- One of the most enraging aspects of the ACA debate was the endless screaming from critics about costs when almost every country with single payer or something close to it spends less on health care than Americans do. Medicaid and Medicare are, on balance, very efficient programs.
- On the merits this is just one instance of administrative vandalism among many, but I'm always struck in stories like these by how inexpensive/efficient these legacy government programs are. A year of funding Energy Star is more or less Blake Snell's annual salary. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
- Spends less with better outcomes.
- In The Cartoon History of the Universe, Larry Gonick drew two side-by-side panels showing Socrates as Plato described him in one (elegant, smiling, drinking wine with aristocrats) and in the other, a scowling, itchy contrarian, with Gonick saying we’ll never know how close Plato was to reality.
- Perhaps Aristophanes painted the truer likeness.
- One of the many reasons why The Cartoon History of the Universe is a masterwork of history!
- I personally owe Gonick a debt of gratitude for challenging me at age 10 to question whether the trial of Socrates wasn't, perhaps, a response to his tacit support for a murderously antidemocratic oligarchic regime just a few years prior.
- my first for @democracydocket.com: What Happens Next in North Carolina’s Supreme Court Race www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- i grew up loving MST3K and when i did a rifftrax i got to hang out with @billcorbett.bsky.social, kevin, and mike and they were even funnier and nicer than i had imagined. working w/them on that and making them laugh w/my jokes was one of my life highlights!!!!
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- Thank you to everyone for the sweet comments and notes. Teaching law is the only job I’ll ever want. I am so grateful to all of you.
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