“Like a duck to water”
From Robertson Davies, Fifth Business.
Orange Crate Art
And then there were three
Pence is “one of three people designated as the administration’s primary coronavirus official.” Pence has appointed Dr. Deborah L. Birx as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator. And Alex M. Azar II chairs a coronavirus task force.
Twelve movies
Pain and Glory and others.
“Truck Proximity”
An xkcd comic.
Matthews and Warren
Elizabeth Warren explains the ridiculously obvious to the dullest knife in the MSNBC drawer. Chris Matthews needs to take his eructations, figurative and literal, into a comfortable retirement.
A Sonny Rollins interview
“This world is not what it’s cracked up to be”: Sonny Rollins, interviewed for The New York Times.
Sluggo in the library
He feels he’s not smart enough.
Bam!
Elizabeth Warren: “I don’t care how much money Mayor Bloomberg has. The core of the Democratic Party will never trust him.”
“Catch” of a Lifetime
A full-page Mirado advertisement, 1956.
Farewell, Mirado
The Mirado pencil has been discontinued. With a photograph of a Mikado and Webster’s Second.
Weses
Oops, wrong Wes.
“The 4d’s”
“Dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing.”
“Visible branch establishments”
From Robertson Davies’s Fifth Business.
Eyeshine
Mark Trail explains it.
Back to the USSR canard
Hearing the assertion that Bernie and Jane Sanders honeymooned in the Soviet Union, I thought, What? And then I remembered writing a post about that canard in 2016.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Certain sausage purveyor.”
Hat and gloves
It is cold or colder these days. Having just come in from a walk, I want to express my gratitude to my Carhartt Acrylic Watch Hat and my Caiman 2395 Heatrac gloves.
Go phish
A spam comment, times ten.
Trump* in Colorado
If you can stand it, Aaron Rupar has short clips from Donald Trump*’s rally last night in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
“The truth still matters”
United States District Judge Amy Bergman Jackson, sentencing Roger Stone today: “The truth still exists. The truth still matters.”
Make it new
“Shortly after the Democratic Presidential debate on Wednesday night, aides to Michael Bloomberg announced that he would spend ten billion dollars to buy an entirely new personality.”
Domestic comedy
Concerning a correspondent on the news.
Disses, digital and analog
In tonight’s debate, Elizabeth Warren called Pete Buttigieg’s healthcare plan “a PowerPoint.” She likened Amy Klobuchar’s healthcare plan to a Post-it Note.
“Fellows of the first importance”
From Robertson Davies, Fifth Business.
EXchange name sighting
BRyant, from Safety Last!
Trump* pardons miscreants
I can think of four reasons for Trump* to issue pardons and commutations today.
Stop-and-frisk in LA
A conversation on the way to LAX.
Recently updated
“Stopping at a rest stop with your swim team while black,” now with an interview with swimmer Jaylan Butler and ACLU attorney Rachel Murphy.
“What the future is for”
From Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
“Pencils”
From the BBC Radio 4 series The Boring Talks : “Pencils,” with Brian Mackenwells.