David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

MIT! MIT! MIT!

GIVE EEYORE A BIG STEAK

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

Another fast listen via @libro.fm - “The Mystery of the Blue Train” by Agatha Christie. I like comparing the books with the adaptation from the David Suchet Poirot series, and this one had a lot of differences as well! A good deal happens in the books before Poirot even appears!

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

THE CHICAGO CUBS ARE STILL ALIIIIIVVVVVEEEEE!!!!! #FlyTheW

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I rarely call in sick from work. I have a wonky stomach and decided to take it easy today, because I want to be 100% when we travel to a wedding in Pennsylvania this weekend.

I’m sorry, after that 8th run, I turned off the Cubs game and went over to YouTube to watch a series 12 episode of @taskmaster.tv

George Carlin would never have taken blood money to perform comedy for a Saudi Arabian tyrant.

82nd Airborne walks into Powell’s, gets too distracted, hours lost wandering the shelves, mission fails completely.

RIP Patricia Routledge. Buckets at half-mast 🫡

Dang, Dame Patricia Routledge has passed. RIP

CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!

BREAKING: The Detroit Tigers are moving on! They vanquish their AL Central rival Cleveland Guardians 6-3 in the AL Wild Card series Thursday at Progressive Field. They will face the Seattle Mariners in the American League Division Series, starting Saturday at T-Mobile Park.

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

In the 80s before Subway became a thing, kid me got excited when my parents were going to drive a half hour away to the K-Mart in Benton Harbor to pick up subs!

If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

Just release the Grindr account deets of the Speaker and all these Fucks already

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.” Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

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Well played, @merriam-webster.com. Well played.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

What a tired old storyline for the season finale of the Federal Government. 0/5 stars. Time to cancel the series.

Hi, @feeshare.bsky.social!!!!! Good to see you over here!!

CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! That’s one! #FlytheW

RELEASE THE FILES!

“Mike Rogers is a Florida mansion-dwelling multi-millionaire who mocked hardworking Michiganders worried about rising costs — and he’s still delusional enough to think he’s entitled to their votes.” michigandems.com/new-price-hi...

Three NL Central teams in the postseason and St. Louis is not one of them

I finished a 2nd book this weekend, another in @andysmithmn.bsky.social’s #PresidentsBookClub “The Life of Andrew Jackson” by Robert V. Remini. I was not looking forward to reading about Jackson and am glad to move on past him.

Kate & I have been slowly watching the David Suchet Poirot shows on #Britbox. We’re finally on the final season. I’ve been reading the Poirot books in order & just finished “The Big Four” on @libro.fm - Can’t wait to see how the show adapts the epic scale of this story, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Watching HBO Max’s “Finding Amelia” to see if they also find the Epstein Files!

Here comet! This way comet! Good comet! Right here!

US Government shutdown season seems to come round earlier each year.

ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES IN AMELIA EARHART’S LOST AIRPLANE?

A few years ago, I read “Housewife Assassin”, a bio about Moore. It was a fascinating read

BATHROOM SINKS ARE A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT!

Cool cool cool

Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.

Finished “The Shadow Docket” by Stephen Vladeck on @libro.fm - book just made me angrier and angrier as chapters progressed. #ReformtheCourt

“I did my research”

What’s the New York Times go with? Something like, “In a wide ranging speech to the general assembly…”

I hope my rapturing today is before my back to back afternoon meetings. If Jesus could do me this solid, that’d be great.