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Via valued commenter Marco Polo, a reminder: Brian FallonVerified account @brianefallon The fate of Kavanaugh may well be decided in the next 48-72 hrs. As of now multiple GOP senators are undecided but they’re getting A LOT of pressure from the WH and leadership to fall in line. Your pressure can make the difference. Pls call […]
My spouse and I like to cook — a lot. She’s a former pro, which helps, and I love food and find in cooking a kind of empty-mind release, so there are a lot of nights on which we make a pretty complicated meal. And then there are the other evenings: we want good stuff, […]
So, even though we’ve been properly busy dealing with the fact the Carolinas are washing out to sea and Manafort is doing his best canary impression, there has been yet more news out there that needs some appellate Jackal review. Brett Kavanaugh, it seems, has some “boys will be boys” ‘splaining to do: A secretive […]
This has been much discussed, but not here: a Dallas police officer will be facing manslaughter charges after shot and killed a 26-year-old man in his own apartment. The officer, who has not been identified, thought she had gone into her own apartment when she had actually gone into her neighbor’s home and apparently thought […]
Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the republic, and the mainstream press is still missing the plot. Here’s the money quote of what he said last night to a gathering of evangelical religious leaders hypocrites once the press was gone: “The level of hatred, the level of anger is unbelievable…Part of it […]
The arc of the universe bends slowly, but, thank FSM, it bends away from stuff like this: This comes via Vintage Bug and was, it seems, something of a Twitter sensation about a year ago. I missed it then, but am delighted to discover this glorious anti-personnel dish now. It comes, as explained at the link, […]
Just back from a glorious 10 days without much internet (and no Twitter!). I was with my family in Peru, a trip occasioned by the joy of my nephew’s wedding to his Peruvian fiancée. We got in this morning, an experience that reinforced my view that red eye flights ought to be classed as crimes […]