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Ray O'Neill
The entitled 57
Update to one of the stories in yesterday’s post, the one from Buffalo about two riot cops shoving a 75-year-old […]
Days of sound and fury
I’ve been watching the protests-slash-riots over the past few days with a growing feeling of dissatisfaction not just at how […]
The Dragon
While a lot of us were distracted with other business, this happened: SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space […]
The George Floyd thing
Dateline Minneapolis: A guy named George Floyd went into a store and bought stuff with a counterfeit $20 bill. The […]
Karen vs. Swatzilla: the uselessness of the “Karen” meme
This cropped up in my feed yesterday: Oh, when Karens take a walk with their dogs off leash in the […]
Trump takes cautious approach to saying a rapey scumbag shouldn’t be President
That isn’t quite how the Associated Press put it, of course: Trump takes cautious approach to highlighting Joe Biden sex […]
Confidential to M.A.: I don’t doubt that your home state’s lottery commission mandates a customer-facing ad screen n its lottery […]
Nepal unintentionally caricatures corona-curfews
Dateline Kathmandu: Even though the lockdown is still in effect with only designated economic activities allowed, people in Kathmandu have […]
Some of us are can remember 2009, Joe
I get that Joe Biden would like potential voters to be talking about something, anything other than Tara Reade. And […]
