After I made some fun of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for putting his two twentysomething sons in charge of financial behemoth Cantor Fitzgerald, Andrew Gelman and Mark Palko reminded me.
This is the grave of Robert Rossen. Born in 1908 in New York, Robert Rosen grew up in the Jewish immigrant center of the Lower East Side. I am not.
I've seen quite a bit of music this month. Some I will talk about this week, some in the next couple of these posts. The biggest thing I did was.
The fact that an anti-vaxx lunatic has been put in charge of the country's public health is both a horrifying and contingent fact about American politics. But there's also a.
Last May, I discussed this ridiculous Trump Burger restaurant in Texas, owned by a Lebanese immigrant of course, where everything was branded TRUMP, including the buns. What I did not.
A west coast night person, after some desultory attempts at napping I just stayed up straight through, and I'm more concerned about how I'll be able to get to sleep.
Ian Buruma, who is writing a book about Berlin during WWII, points out that people have a nearly unlimited capacity to normalize what would previously have been considered intolerable: In.
We have been remiss in failing to provide an Open Thread for the US-Canada Hockey Gold Medal game... now approaching end of the 1st period with the US ahead 1-0..
- A note on sports and heartbreak
- Four Years of War
- No! War, for oil
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,109
- Did Duke Win?
- The Uranium Containers
- JD Vance’s demon-haunted world
- Review: Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- This seems bad
- Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,108
