Via my 17 y.o., who is my last link to what Da Utes T’ink, I present the winner of a Reddit photoshop competition: ‘Bout right, I’d say. A little more goodness. Here’s a true, heartwarming story of a boy raised right in the Levenson household. I’m walking one day in the neighborhood with my …
Open Threads
Writers Chatting: Beach Read 3
We all seem to be in agreement that summer is time to kick back and relax a bit. So with that in mind, here is the next in our summer’s Writers Chatting open threads. Besides writing the next great beach read, what is your favorite beach read? A few of mine, in no particular order: …
Funhouse Mirror View (Open Thread)
Yesterday evening, I read a few MSM round-up pieces on Trump’s G-20 trip, like this take from NBC. For the thousandth time since 1/20/17, perusing the network hot takes made me wonder who’s taking crazy pills — the U.S. journalists who are watching the bizarre Trump shit-show and presenting recaps as if covering a more …
The World is Flat
Is this just a random hipster brewery name, or are they making a comment on the gaggle of dolts that John wrote about earlier? Your call. Open thread
Open Thread: But HER HAIR WAS PERFECT
Ivanka Trump, daughter of #US president sits in for her father at G-20 world leaders table. pic.twitter.com/YEZ4a2dc2f — Rudaw English (@RudawEnglish) July 8, 2017 Telling that pic of Ivanka at G-20 table was posted by Russian staff. Russians knew would: 1. be deemed controversial; 2. get us going in US — Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) July …
Afternoon Open Thread
This is an older photo of the pups. We’ve been so busy and they are always on the move…or asleep, it’s difficult to get a good photo. But they look pretty much like that all the time. The backyard has transformed – all the plants and landscaping have been replaced by heavy duty grass for …
The wonk’s lament
One of my favorite people to follow on Twitter had the Wonk’s lament: And now I have summarized my last decade of research in far fewer than 140 characters https://t.co/ERBpjfFsb7 — Sarah Gollust (@sarahgollust) July 5, 2017 D58826 in comments earlier this week expresses the wonk’s lament from the other side: At the end of …