It’s a lesson won by massive heartbreak, but I think most Democrats now accept that we’re a big tent. It’s messy and maddening, and there are loudmouths who declare ownership for their faction, privilege their causes above all others, nurture intramural grievances endlessly, blah blah blah. We’re human, so that means lots of us are …
Amy Coney Barrett: Tone Police
Finally got around to reading that unanimous SCOTUS opinion on the Colorado ballot, and hoo boy. I’m not a lawyer, so I’ll leave the legal analysis to qualified people, but tone is something I do understand. And folks, what we have here is a tone cop with a newly minted badge who is instructing us …
Serenity Now
This week’s New Yorker Radio Hour had a fascinating segment on what Joe Biden thinks about the upcoming election. Host David Remnick spoke to New Yorker journalist Evan Osnos, who wrote a book about Biden’s 2020 campaign, “Joe Biden: The Life, The Run, What Matters Now.” Osnos interviewed Biden extensively for that book a few …
Sunday Afternoon Open Thread
Regular at the bar. Dapper little gent. A bit too enthused about the snack options sometimes. Open thread. ETA: At some point this week, I was driving and heard some legal analysis on an NPR program, I think. I was only half paying attention. Anyhoo, the speaker was reviewing the “novel” perspective Justice Kavanaugh or …
Squishable Morning Thread
It was cloudy and overcast all day yesterday, but it didn’t rain as predicted. This morning just before 5 AM, the fierce storm that was roiling the Gulf finally rolled through here. The flashes of lightning woke me up. Bill, who can sleep through anything, slept through lightning strikes that went off like bombs in …
Turkey Day (Open Thread)
I was walking Badger up our crappy dirt road early this morning, which dawned still and humid and overcast but tolerably cool. We hadn’t progressed much past our property line when a very large wild turkey burst through the brush at the edge of the road. It startled the dog and me, and the turkey …
U.S. Aid Airdrops (Open Thread)
Good news if true from CNN: President Joe Biden plans to announce Friday that the US will airdrop humanitarian aid and supplies into Gaza, according to people familiar with the plans. A White House official told CNN earlier on Friday that Biden plans to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the efforts that the …