Nancy, multitasking
I like that Nancy is able to speak (and what’s more, soliloquize) as she drinks water.
Orange Crate Art
“Churches and synagogues” (Project 2025)
“God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest,” the document says. But the default Sabbath, no surprise, is Sunday.
“Black jobs”
“Folks, I know what a ‘Black job’ is: it’s the vice president of the United States. I know what a ‘Black job’ is: the first Black president in American history, Barack Obama”: Joe Biden, on fire this afternoon, addressing the NAACP convention in Las Vegas.
Mystery actor
Though I knew this fellow was in the movie, I didn’t recognize him at first. Do you?
Librarians and teachers (Project 2025)
Look out.
Twelve movies
The Harder They Come and others.
“One set of eyes” (Project 2025)
Despite Donald Trump’s know-nothing disavowals, there’s ample evidence of his campaign’s deep ties to Project 2025.The project’s creators are themselves explicit about those ties, in the first paragraph of the first page following the acknowledgments.
Timothy Snyder on political violence
“What to make of the assassination attempt?” Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, has some ideas.
On old Delancey Street
These storefronts are in fact 191 and 193 Bowery. But let’s imagine them on Delancey Street, nos. 6 and 8.
News
I like what Fresca’s friend Marz had to say: “I don’t want us to live like this. I want to be part of the calm in the craziness.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Pole vaults have them.”
“Leftist broadcasters” (Project 2025)
It’s extraordinarily dishonest to assert that NPR and PBS are noneducational or virtually noneducational, unless of course you’ve already restricted “educational” to programming for the very young. So Sesame Street is educational, but All Things Considered, American Masters, Finding Your Roots, and Frontline are not.
Positive anymore on the screen
“Well, anymore you’re always busy.”
“Donald Trump Is Unfit to Lead”
A lengthy piece from the New York Times editorial board.
Names in school (Project 2025)
The deeply sinister message here is that individual identity is not one’s own to decide.
You and *I, you and me
I was driving when I said it: “people like you and I.” And I couldn’t believe that I had said it.
Project 2025 on marriage and parental roles
The broad outlines of Project 2025 are frightening enough. Reading the details makes it all look much worse. Log Cabin Republicans, you’re kidding yourselves.
Windows Notepad advances
“Better late than never, but it’s kind of wild that Notepad is 41 years old and only getting these features now.”
On Proust’s birthday
“Certain parts take place in the country, some in one kind of society, others in another kind; some have to do with family life and much of it is terribly indecent.”
Eleven suggestions from Robert Reich
Robert Reich offers eleven suggestions “to prevent America and the world from falling into fascism.”
Relative frequency (Project 2025)
In Chapter Fourteen of the Project 2025 Policy Agenda, covering the Department of Health and Human Services, the words addiction, birth control, and hunger do not appear; the word fentanyl appears once; the acronyms HIV and AIDS appear once each; and the word nutrition appears four times. But the word gender appears twenty-two times, and the word abortion appears 143 times.
Project 2025
Did you know that there’s a Project 2025 website? And a thirty-chapter agenda?
Fran Lebowitz at the Morgan Library
“When you look at manuscripts or letters and they’re written in the hand of the writer, you are closer to that writer, you’re closer to the person”
”Huh?“
At least I know I’m not alone in thinking it a problem: Why are the right- and left-quotation marks on iOS’s keyboard reversed?
“Swims clings or crawls”
“If it swims clings or crawls we have it”: Brooklyn signage.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Nonclassified letters.”
Notebook and pencil sighting
Maybe a Scripto. Maybe a Skilcraft.
Ship, plane, or call center
“Please wait while I connect you with a crew member.”
It’s raining
Nancy sees rain.
Jim’s question
Any kings in the United States?