Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Pharmacy figure.”
Orange Crate Art
Criterion July
The Critertion Channel’s July lineup, like every other month’s Criterion lineup, is a wow. Noir in color!
A red-herring strategy
James Surowiecki: “Trump Wanted to Join the Mob at the Capitol, and All Right-Wing Media Wants to Talk About Is a Steering Wheel.”
Dave Lambert and a Blackwing
Yep, it’s a Blackwing. From Lambert & Co.: Audition at RCA (dir. D.A. Pennebaker, 1964).
“Before my patience are exhausted”
From the “Lotus-Eaters” episode of Ulysses.
Squirrels on metal roofs
How do squirrels contend with metal roofs?
Leopold Bloom, proto-blogger
From the “Calypso” episode of Ulysses.
Hill, Sam
Today, as I strode a main aisle in our friendly neighborhood multinational retailer, an older fellow asked me, “Do you know where in the Sam Hill the mouthwash is?”
“Seesoo, hrss, rsseeiss, ooos”
From the “Proteus” episode of Ulysses.
The best pens?
The New York Times Wirecutter offers recommendations for the best ballpoint, rollerball, and gel pens.
Only Murders slight, slight spoiler
What a treat to see Shirley MacLaine in Only Murders in the Building.
How to improve writing (no. 103)
A sentence in need of help, from a New York Times obituary for Margaret Keane, painter of big-eyed children.
“Real, real bad”
Taking notes on today’s January 6 hearing.
“I paid my way ”
From the “Proteus” episode of Ulysses.
Foley
From The New Yorker: tricks of the Foley artist.
Rodney Davis vs. Mary Miller
The New York Times has an article about their primary contest.
S _ _
It can tricky to get a crossword right from Across words alone.
“He himself?”
From “Telemachus,” the opening episode of Ulysses.
Copyediting the crossword
A count noun takes “number.”
G. & S.
A store from the Brooklyn of my childhood.
Miller White Life?
Mary Miller calls the end of Roe v. Wade a “historic victory for white life.”
Feeding kids
It’s no surprise to me to learn that Mary Miller (R, IL-15) is one of just forty-two members of the House of Representatives who voted on Thursday against the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022, created to help fund meal programs throughout the year. Miller is zealous about prohibiting abortion and allowing unlimited access to weapons. Not so zealous about feeding children.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“‘That’ll never happen again.’”
Excerpts from a dissent
Excerpts from the dissent filed by Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Back to 1868
From the New York Times’s annotated text of today’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade: “The crux of Justice Alito’s legal rationale is that the 14th Amendment’s protections of freedoms that are not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution must be limited to those rights that were understood to exist deep in the country’s history — especially around 1868, when that amendment was ratified. This is an example of “originalism,” in contrast to the more liberal interpretative method that views the Constitution as a living document whose meaning can evolve with society.”
“Once upon a time”
One of the great beginnings, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Our tube
Edd Byrnes, Farley Granger, and David Groh: familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.
Supreme inconsistency
Neal Katyal on guns, abortion, and states.
Netizen Trump
“You guys may not be following the Internet the way I do”: Donald Trump, pushing his Department of Justice to investigate a conspiracy theory about Italian satellites changing votes for him to votes for Joe Biden.
Members, plural
The ones who requested pardons after January 6.