Looking for something else entirely, I found this letter from a reader to the Philadelphia Daily News in May of 1985, just after Bonz- er, Reagan went to Bitburg.

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

Just got an on-the-record response from a DoD official that refers to a battalion serving in Afghanistan "with the upmost professionalism."

Oscar Peterson, thank heavens.

THIS is the kind of order judges should be issuing against performative complaints.

so are there really people out there nodding their heads in agreement that drug costs can be reduced by 1000 percent

Again, at the risk of stating what should be obvious to anyone with a 2nd-grade understanding of civics, all of this is robustly protected under the First Amendment.

I called it. (It wasn’t hard to call.)

In retrospect this maybe feels a bit like prior restraint?

Corporations can stand up for actual free speech by not complying in advance when the government threatens them. Or they can roll over like dogs.

Robert Redford - one of the best to ever do it - had Rhode Island roots. His dad, grandfather, and beyond were born in Westerly and are buried there, in the same cemetery as my mom. youtube.com/shorts/UCbL5...

"Each feels actual malice...in the colloquial sense" is a line that should get this suit laughed out of the first courtroom it gets into.

I just want to make very clear that the First Amendment protects your right to fly the flag however you choose, no matter what the president or anyone else says. I think this is basic stuff but one can never be sure these days.

Mets fans, here is a photo of Juan Soto demolishing a baseball into the upper deck. (Ball is a white blur in the upper right corner.

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

I've said it for years - Sorkin didn't invent it, but he definitely elevated it to a cancer - there is a class of so-called political people who think politics is nothing but lawyering without being called to the bar. Low volume, nice words, find the loophole.

Do yourself and your country a favor today, and read the entirety of Lincoln's speech to the Young Men's Lyceum. He was only 28 when he delivered it, not yet an American hero but already possessed of an incisive clarity about our way of political life. www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...

I had a weird thought, tangential to 9/11: if "Good Morning, Vietnam" were made today, it would be about the 2003 war in Iraq. "Gooooooooooood morning, Mortaritaville! Time to rock it from Fallujah to the FOB!"

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

After Tango in the Night, Tusk spreads Rumours of war, warns of Future Games, Bare Trees

…and not a single brain cell was engaged.

It's hard to think of anything more antithetical to the Founders' vision for America than willingly letting federal troops patrol the streets.

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

Hey, and when you're done reading about the birthday book, why not check out my team's work on Epstein's relationship with JPMorgan Chase? (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

I spent so, so much of my college and postgraduate education preoccupied with the theories, history, and workings of the Supreme Court. Sigh. #calvinball

Comebackigami!

Football! Wow.

This is the tallest waterfall on the planet.

Hail and farewell, Phlorescent Leech. #floandeddie #turtles #zappa

Again, a reminder that the law of the United States creates and names executive departments, not the president at any given time. "The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States." 10 U.S.C § 111

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

What he said.

We had friends visiting this weekend, and their 7-year-old actually said the following, and I swear I am not making this up: “I don’t like Taylor Swift because she hasn’t spoken out about Palestine.” It’s ok to not involve little kids in the news of the world! Especially these days.

Why can’t you see any hair under the hat?

🐇🐇🐇

He had this semi-sentient tech stuff figured out decades before anyone else.

Zappa as a drug dealer on Miami Vice, slinging “weaseldust.”

Completely forgot Ken Starr was dead. Thought I needed to reach out to him this week for comment on something. Gonna be hard without a medium.

I have been doing so much document review this week that I feel like a summer associate all over again, without the fun parties.

This is a choice. We'll live like this until we choose otherwise.

:riotous laughter:

Go ahead, try parsing this one charitably, I dare you.

Government of one person, by one person, for one person

The American flag protects the liberty of those who burn it.

I don't even know what to say anymore.

For some reason I immediately thought of this Rhodesian Army recruitment poster.

For those saying a certain public figure got what he deserved: