RIP Charlie Watts (1941-2021), Rolling Stones drummer.
Here’s Keith Richards on an incident in 1984 when Watts punched Mick Jagger, who (naturally) had it coming:
Graeme Wood
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Graeme Wood
@gcaw
Staff writer, @TheAtlantic. Lecturer, @Yale political science. Formerly: @newrepublic, @DeutschePostDHL
Joined May 2008
- The Taliban sound magnanimous in victory—just like they did when they rolled into Kabul in 1996. Here’s how it went then: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
- ICYMI: I've been in Israel since just after the October 7 Hamas attack. Here's a dispatch from an IDF screening room where the feature presentation was a 43-minute compilation of terrorist bodycam footage:
- Replying to @gcawCars plus houses plus remaining balance in bank account adds up to maybe $2-3 million. Take a 50% discount on the $40-million in hot goods, and there’s $17 million spent or unaccounted for.
- Replying to @walterolsonI am here for this side issue. The writer should have used “cavalcade"
- Indigenous ‘land acknowledgments’ have been hijacked by pedants, scolds, and moral exhibitionists. I have a few thoughts in @TheAtlantic on how that happened, and how to rescue this practice from itself:
- Replying to @gcawWow. 💰💎 "A 2014 Mercedes-Benz G550, a 2017 Land Rover Range Rover Sv Autobiography, a 2015 Cadillac Escalade Premium, a 2020 Mercedes Benz Model E450A, a 2016 Cadillac Escalade and a 2018 Dodge Charger."
- If Rittenhouse is acquitted (and I think he will be), the correct lesson to draw will be that self-defense is an absolute right that applies even to those who make disastrous and imprudent decisions. And prudence is a virtue Rittenhouse, like most 17-year-olds, had not developedRe: Rittenhouse--one thing that Twitter doesn't seem to understand is how *narrow* the legal self-defense inquiry is. You can be in the wrong place for the wrong reasons and make a series of stupid decisions, but you can still have the right to defend your life with deadly force.
- I am totally convinced that car seat laws after the age of two are misguided and should be eliminated
- Replying to @maggiemphillipsThe singleminded crusade to make raising children as hard as possible in the US should perhaps be rolled back a tad
- Just goes to show that if you can fill out the paperwork correctly you can get away with almost anything
- Active shooter advice, grim but (I assure you) sound, in @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
- Replying to @mattyglesias and @tylercowenEven worse than that! The US government paid me to learn Afghan languages, then specifically discouraged me from applying for government jobs, because I had problematic prior foreign travel to places like…Afghanistan
- I interviewed the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and wrote about the country’s future. What happened next? My latest, in @TheAtlantic, on three days of watching the Saudi propaganda machine in high gear:
