Tuesday morning...uh, afternoon reading
It's a lovely day in Chicago, which I'm not enjoying as much as I could because I'm (a) in my Loop office and (b) busy as hell. So I'll have to read these later:Josh Marshall points out the obvious,...
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Friday night, Saturday afternoon
More photos from last weekend. I mentioned The Samuel Palmer in Shoreham, Kent, where I stopped after my hike through the Kentish Downs. I didn't mention that I had a delightful cheese plate for...
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Sure Happy It's Thursday
So, what's going on today?Emma Green explains "how the Federalist Society won," which actually kept awake in the middle of the night on Tuesday.As a reminder that the true goal of the Federalist...
View ArticleWait, Monday is August?
Somehow we got to the end of July, though I could swear March happened 30 seconds ago. If only I were right, these things would be four months in my future:We all knew Justice Samuel Alito (R) is an...
View ArticleI did not win the lottery
But someone did after buying a ticket at a Speedway gas station in nearby Des Plaines, Ill.:Someone in a Chicago suburb beat the odds and won the $1.28 billion Mega Millions jackpot.According to...
View ArticleFuture heat
James Fallows highlights a new US government website that maps how bad the climate will get in your town:Let me give just a few illustrations from the first such climate-based public map the White...
View ArticleStill ridiculously busy
At least I don't have an opera rehearsal tonight. That means I might, just might, have some time to read these once I finish preparing for a 7am meeting tomorrow:Robert Wright warns that the war in...
View ArticlePlan for Sunday: read, write, nap
However, to get to Sunday, I have to finish a messy update to my work project, rehearse for several hours tomorrow, figure out a marketing plan for a product, and walk Cassie for hours.I also want to...
View ArticleMar-a-Lago searched
How many sign-offs do you need to execute a no-knock raid on the former president's house?Former president Donald Trump said Monday that the FBI had raided his Mar-a-Lago Club and searched his safe —...
View ArticleExtremism looks like this
A man attacked and seriously injured author Salman Rushdie at a lecture in upstate New York this morning:The author Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding and under police protection after Iranian...
View ArticleCan you direct us to the nuclear wessels?
The former president's stooges have no idea how to deal with the Justice Department's allegations that he essentially stole highly classified nuclear secrets from the White House:We should not lose...
View ArticleIndian independence and partition, 75 years on
Today is India's 75th anniversary as an independent nation after the UK essentially abandoned it after World War II. The Guardian looks at how much—and how little—has changed:The attack on Salman...
View ArticleLunchtime links
Happy Monday:The XPOTUS uses the same pattern of lies every time he gets caught committing a crime. Jennifer Rubin says this was his dumbest crime yet.Usability experts at the Nielsen/Norman Group lay...
View ArticleAmazing late-summer weather
The South's misfortune is Chicago's benefit this week as a hot-air dome over Texas has sent cool Canadian air into the Midwest, giving us in Chicago a perfect 26°C afternoon at O'Hare—with 9°C...
View ArticleCoronal mass ejection hits the planet
We have some intense aurora activity this week:The Northern Lights may be visible in the mainland U.S. this week due to a strong geomagnetic storm, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
View ArticleBaby's first Ribfest
If Cassie could (a) speak English and (b) understand the concept of "future" she would be quivering with anticipation about going to Ribfest tonight after school. Since she can't anticipate it, I'll do...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan retires
In her last column, the Washington Post veteran warns that journalists still have a long way to go to properly deal with the anti-democratic party to the right:Here’s the good news: The media has come...
View ArticleCassie wants to go outside
So I'm going to have to postpone reading all of these:Isaac Chotiner interviews UT Law professor Steve Vladeck about whether former presidents deserve special treatment.Does the Republican Party even...
View ArticleShort rant about student loans
I posted this last night on Facebook:It's so interesting to me that we're having a (manufactured) political argument about canceling $10k in student debt while all the countries we compete with are...
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Tinley Park, suburban hellscape
When I visited Hailstorm Brewing in March 2021, I chose not to walk along the sidewalk-free 80th Avenue and instead, after Froggering across the aforementioned stroad, I went through one of the most...
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