'Guy in a diner' stories are so yesterday.

Today's version!

Top 3/4s of today's Business section. (You'll never guess which paper.)

Re @dougjballoon: 'Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.'

Finally! Saw a Cybertruck in the wild! Corner of NY Ave + Redlands Blvd in Redlands CA

I had heard that it was ugly. True. But not prepared for how cheesy it looks.

Like cheap toaster oven on wheels.

FWIW

Pick 'em:

- Ted Cruz is a grad of Harvard Law School.
- The guy is a grad of Yale Law. amgreatness.com/2024/04/29/van…

The case for ... any other route to adulthood?

The New York Times will now end every political story slamming Biden for not giving them an interview.

Every headline in the form of a question has the answer 'No.'

(From WaPo today.)

Today's Xitter:

-Reported racist/sexist acct.
-Got the reply shown here, in two parts.

NB this acct (which I'm not naming) had posts on: time for new holocaust; need for Auschwitz; images of J*ws poisoning water supply. And that's before the racism and misogyny. Jeesh.

Hey hey hey! I magically have a Blue Check again!

(Was removed in initial purge; then restored during mass-restoration; then I used option to turn it off; now Musky has removed that option. Presumably to make people who paid for this 'status' less obvious.)

Very proud day. /s

Agree we David Roberts here. And was true even back in 1990s, when I compared the questions that college students, local citizen groups, local radio interviewers etc asked Bill Clinton (while prez), w the pure-strategy-and-gaffe focus of standard WH press briefings.

Biden wants to be re-elected without doing the hard work of giving interviews. But no one deserves an important job that they didn't have to work for.

by A. G. Sulzberger

It's an ever-evolving contest, but based on what we know now...

More damaging, overall, to the US constitutional system and 'the American idea'?

For US-history buffs, actual question:

What's best turn-on-a-dime comparison for yesterday's 'free speech' absolutists [yesterday=2022], now on the warpath about shutting down protests?

Not looking for convenient changes by politicians. But 'thought leader' 180-degree-reversal.

Linguistic rather than political question:

When (in terms of years) did call-and-response chants, led by 'Repeat After Me' w Simon-Says echo from crowd, become a thing?

In Civil Rights/Vietnam era leaders started the chant ('2-4-6-8...') and others joined in. When the change?

Be sure to read the last line of this.

I already loved Cate Blanchett. And now .... !!

You can always move to DC and join us here. We're 2+ years into the new era.
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