Ban Ted Cruz

Moscow Marge blasts her American colleagues — both Democrats and Republicans: 'I seriously hate them'

The retorts, they write themselves!

Excited for appliances to have more freedom than I do

There is a gag order that prohibits Trump from making public statements about witnesses concerning their participation at trial. Questioning their credibility would seem to cross that line.
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Important writer silly quote.

If the book is weak because I stopped working on it, well, life is filled with weak people.

Oh, well, what churl would miss a chance to note Don Adams's birthday?

No one is immortal in tv, but Maxwell Smart ought to be.

Much pleased to see McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg and Saskatoon so splendidly feted in The Globe and Mail this morning. And specifically for a return to focusing on ... selling books. The shocking unconventionality of it all! Bravo to them.

Captain Dreyfus was sent to Devil's Island on this day in 1895, convicted of treason based on an entirely false story fueled by antisemitism. The affair drove France into chaos. He was pardoned in 1899, exonerated in 1905, but the army did not declare him innocent until … 1995!

He is shockingly bad. I mean, I’ve known this for years, but he still shocks me. That third strike? Seriously?

Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 “He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount” - Chinese proverb

Johnson: I stood alongside OJ Simpson as we searched for the real killer

Two of the chief architects of the effort to overturn the 2020 election — Donald Trump and Mike Johnson — are currently holding an event on 'election integrity.'

Mark Twain wrote of a sermon so good he was ready to give $10 for the collection plate, but the minster kept talking, and talking, and Twain wrote that in the end he stole a quarter from it.

Not true. I wouldn't sell Bibles

But the Donald walks with Christ.

And here comes Larson!

That counts as an endorsement in GOP.

For this tweet, D. Nussbaum is being judged.

Fair to encourage people who can to take the stairs.
Fair to note that some, not always for obvious reasons, may have trouble doing so.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a gentleman who has partooken of a coffee after 3 PM is required to make a Last Word at end-of-workday #cocktailhour to regain equipoisity, equilibrium. Thank you. Cheers.

Who says Boomers are staid? In an act of Freewheelin' rebellion the young Dylan would have surely admired, I have just made another coffee … AT THREE O'CLOCK!

(Relatedly: literary discussion group meets here at 2:00 am to discuss John Barth. Be there or be square!)