I know that hating on NYT is popular and independent journalism is important. But NYT is still doing really good, important work. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

"We're going to inspect Fort Knox… I don't want to open it and the cupboards are bare.” This definitely means Trump already had all the gold moved to Mar A Lago, right? www.cbsnews.com/news/fort-kn...

Think average Americans understand the damage being done? They don’t. And her husband works for a local govt agency that this summer announced a federal transportation alternatives grant to fund a big project over the next couple of years. I hope for her sake that it’s already funded.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

No algorithm you say?

NJ is almost 40 years behind NYC. There were drone sightings in the East Village back in 1987: youtu.be/QgLH6ZUg14Q

I am sure that most of the 10/7 takes tomorrow will be awful. So I'm writing mine today, with the urgent plea that we *not* succumb to letting those awful things "compel" us to our own dreadful choices of hatred and antagonism and dehumanization.

My wife said yesterday that a playwright should be seconded to MDC Brooklyn to write an existential comedy about Diddy and SBF bunking together. (“Puffy and the Brain”?) Now Mayor Swagger might join them. She is clearly on to something.

Will Trump take a drug test before the debate tonight?

Grapeseed of Wrath #makeabookgreasy