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If key Biden “corruption” and impeachment witness Alexander Smirnov spectacularly implodes and nobody in the Fox audience hears how big a deal that is, does it really make an impact? I’m only half joking.

I have the motto for the Biden campaign: Old enough to know better. Uncle Joe, sit down with a reporter you can relate to, and explain what aging is about. How there's good and bad that come with getting on, and Repubs (of course) have been focusing on the bad but the journalists aren't getting the other side. One thing is for sure, it's hard to put one over on …

Hundreds protest as Biden fundraises among his wealthy promoters

Here I present a digest of four scientific linguistics papers from the latter part of the month of January, 2024 to show that our field is very much alive in diverse subfields at the beginning of the new year. "The Semantics, Sociolinguistics, and Origins of Double Modals in American English: New Insights from Social Media." Morin, Cameron et al. PLOS ONE 19, no. 1 (January 24, 2024): e0295799. . Abstract …

Found an old Life Magazine (July 11, 1949) last week. The cover with Bob Mathias got to me right away. Inside a spread about his return home to Tulare, CA to compete in US National decathlon the year after his 1948 Olympic decathlon victory in London as a 17 year old high school phenom. Two Life photographers Bill Wasson and Michael Rougier were there to cover the event. No credit …

elsewhere in the digital media apocalypse, Yahoo laid off Engadget's leadership and BuzzFeed is cutting 16% #

💬 "The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it." - Stanley Kubrick Since I heard this quote for the first time a few weeks ago, I couldn’t let go of it. It encapsulates a moment in design that makes me feel like a hack every time it happens.I’m a stern believer that software design is a craft, not an art. There …

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My ol’ Burgundian Home If I had a house en Bourgogne (which, alas, I don’t), I’d like one like this. And then I’d ask Randy Newman to do a variation on this for me. Quote of the Day ”My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.” Errol Flynn Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Maxwell Quartet | Cill Mhuire Link Long Read of the Day …

I hung an owl box. 10 years later on a sunny February morning an owl finally came to roost. This is that owl's story ... ... as told in his own words. Hello. Pleased to make your acquaintance. My name is OHMYGOD but everyone calls me Snacks. I'm an Eastern Screech Owl. Karen and I...Read More

Under the international gold standard, the price level tended to be relatively stable in the very long run. There were often significant changes up and down on a year-to-year basis, but over much longer periods of time the average inflation rate tended to be close to zero. Here is Josh Hendrickson: I sometimes hear people, especially those who think that we should return to a gold standard, say something like …

Trigger Warning: This review contains references to an actor who doesn't really seem to understand what trigger warnings are for. Paul Hilton has catapulted himself across the river and straight from one Ibsen play into another, as the corrupt mayor in Thomas Ostermeier, Florian Borchmeyer and Duncan Macmillan's adaptation of the overtly political An Enemy of the People. Matt Smith is the star turn in Ostermeier's production, playing Thomas Stockmann, …

Another hundred reviews down at the complete review, so it's time for the next overview of the most recent batch of 100 reviews -- 5101 through 5200. - The last 100 reviews were posted over 240 days -- slightly quicker than the last 100, which took 252 days. The average reviewed book was 264.1 pages long, down considerably from the previous 100, where the average was a ridiculous 325 pages. …

I “discovered” one of my heroes, Stan Freberg, in the early sixties when he was still making comedy records and also making a name for himself with innovative and funny commercials. His spots for Chun King Chow Mein were especially infamous…and one of the few times that the public was ever aware who was responsible for an advertising campaign. In 1962, the company that marketed Chun King — which was …