Jaimes and Nancy FTW
Best Cartoonist, 2019: Olivia Jaimes. Best Original Volume, 2019: Nancy: A Comic Collection.
Orange Crate Art
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Test of consumer confidence?”
EXchange name sighting
TUxedo 5-1234 was indeed the number of the Yellow Cab Company.
Overheard
An old-fashioned system.
The House Managers
“Give the ball to Adam.”
Jim Lehrer (1934–2020)
“News is information that’s required in a democratic society, and Thomas Jefferson said a democracy is dependent on an informed citizenry. That sounds corny, but I don’t care whether it sounds corny or not. It’s the truth.”
A Mongol sighting
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs is holding a Mongol pencil.
Subtitle, about language
A new podcast. Hosted by Patrick Cox and Kavita Pillay, Subtitle is smart, well-edited, and worth any listener’s time.
Steve Martin Caro (1948–2020)
Steve Martin Caro, lead singer with The Left Banke, has died at the age of seventy-one.
Not milkness but phoneless
Senators.
Being 97
A short film about Herbert Fingarette, philosopher.
Vocative comma, no comma
E.g., “Hey, Good Lookin’” and “Hey Joe.”
Biggie Smalls and Hamilton
“And if you don't know, now you know.”
Rostrum
Watching the impeachment trial today, I thought that someone, somewhere, must be watching and thinking, “Yeah, Grandpa worked on that.”
Twelve movies
Claudine and others.
Unanswered questions
Those commercials for Amazon Web Services (AWS) — they’re sad.
16,241
The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump* has made 16,241 false or misleading claims since becoming president.
MLK
“Perhaps the most determining factor in the role of the federal government is the tone set by the Chief Executive in his words and actions.”
Word of the day: tranche
I thought the word would be trending at Merriam-Webster. No soap.
“Sully” Sullenberger on stuttering
“A speech disorder is a lot easier to treat than a character defect. You become a true leader, not because of how you speak, but because of what you have to say — and the challenges you have overcome to help others.”
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Life form.”
Stan Carey on the vocative comma
Editor and “swivel-chair linguist” Stan Carey explains the uses of the vocative comma.
“Good evening, news masochists”
A New Yorker cartoon.
“Some friends”
’Toons should know how many “some” are.
Recently updated
Another instance of “close enough for jazz.”
“Days”
The latest episode of the BBC Radio 4’s Soul Music is devoted to the Kinks’ “Days,” written by Ray Davies. I found it an especially difficult and moving episode. Proceed with caution.
Free Mac apps
From Macworld : thirty free Mac apps.
Low Power Mode
Marco Arment makes the case for a Low Power Mode for MacBooks. Until that comes along, he recommends Turbo Boost Switcher, an app he first recommended in 2015.
Criminals
Watching Rachel Maddow’s interview with Lev Parnas tonight makes undeniably clear, in just sixty minutes, that Donald Trump* and company have turned the executive branch of government into a criminal organization, dedicated not to the public good but to private gain, with anyone in the way considered an enemy, to be neutralized by whatever means avail.
“Us”
Donald Trump*, in advance of signing his “deal” with China, acknowledging audience members Sheldon and Miriam Adelson: “They’re tremendous supporters of us and the Republican Party.” Us = me, not the country. It’s the presidential plural again.