Opportunistic
My favorite sentence (so far) from Trevor Day’s Sardine (London: Reaktion, 2018): “Sardines are opportunistic.”
Orange Crate Art
His ’n’ her resignations are in order
For Chris and Mary Miller.
Mary Miller, still in trouble
Representative Jan Schakowsky (D, Illinois-15) will introduce a measure to censure fellow representative Mary Miller (R, Illinois-15).
Small pleasures
The first seconds of music in a Disaronno commercial tricked me.
Monocle, fluttering
A sentence from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.
Keeping it local
“A Queens-born real estate developer made history Wednesday when he became the first U.S. president ever impeached twice by the House of Representatives.”
Styling the name
When he’s impeached a second time, he’ll be Trump.
Living, breathing
“Donald Trump is a living, breathing impeachable offense. It is what it is”: Hakeem Jeffries.
Outside and inside the Capitol
Congress members and their supporters.
Evolution
A sentence from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.
Mystery actor
Who?
Laurel and Proust
A sentence from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.
Yes, a coup
Fiona Hill explains.
A letter to Mary Miller
I’m sharing the text of a letter I’ve sent to my district’s representative in Congress, the representative now known on Twitter as #hitlerlady.
Library humor
Today’s Dustin: I wonder how many other readers will seek out a list of Dewey Decimal classes to get the joke.
Items in a series
A sentence from In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.
Mary Miller in the news
Representative Seth Moulton (D, Massachusetts-6) reports that when he took a photograph of Republican members of Congress “proudly refusing to wear masks” while sheltering in place in the Capitol Building, “a freshman Trump acolyte, Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, ran over and started screaming in my face.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper (?)
Verilux HappyLight Luxe
I think the benefits of this device are real: more energy, better sleep, fewer typos, less despair, even when the sky is really, really grey. Highly recommended.
Mr. Grip
I speak of household repair, not my hold on sanity. Woodmate’s Mr. Grip is a handy item to have around the house.
Better
Is the United States “better than this”? If it were, it wouldn’t be “this.” Can the United States be “better than this”? It has to be.
Elizabeth Warren speaks
“A democracy in which the elected leaders do not bend to the will of the voters is no democracy. It is a totalitarian state. And those who pursue this effort are supporting a coup.”
The objectors included Mary Miller
The New York Times this morning lists the members of Congress who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Only two members of the Illinois House delegation signed on to the effort. “My” representative, Mary Miller (R, Illinois-15) was one of them. With her objection, Rep. Miller continues to distinguish herself as a new member of the House. Yesterday she made the news for saying, to a pro-Trump* gathering, that “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’” There’s already a petition calling for Miller’s resignation.
A valediction?
Sounds like a valediction from a bunker.
Impeach and remove
Bill Kristol and Ilhan Omar agree: impeach and remove him. Good.
January 6 in D.C., with Mary Miller
My representative in Congress, Mary Miller (R, Illinois-15) pledged in December to object to what she called “tainted election results” and to fight against what she called “the greatest heist of the 21st century.” Like so many older hands, she too is complicit. Miller made the news for saying yesterday that “Hitler was right on one thing. He said, ‘Whoever has the youth has the future.’”
Lee Breuer (1937–2021)
Among his accomplishments: The Gospel at Colonus, an adaptation of Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus.
“Georgia Blue”
I’ve had this Julius Hemphill composition in mind for some time now.
Decluttering, continued
An easy plan for living a richer life with less stuff, or at least the same life with less stuff: put this book in the box for donations.
Mystery actor
He's best known as a summer visitor spending two weeks next door with his aunt.