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Signage
Trump’s got this thing about labeling places at the White House (apparently to let him know where he is at any given moment). Some people are making fun of it, but I think he did a great job in this … Continue reading
Pendulum
Today the GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed the version of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill returned to them by the GOP-controlled Senate. It is in fact One Big Billionaire Boondoggle. It is hard to overstate the damage it will … Continue reading
Busybodies
Something to take our minds off the chaos out there—from GifCities, a project of the Internet Archive. [I wish I could give credit for this, but could not find who made it.] It looks to me like you can tile … Continue reading
Interdisciplinary
I wish I could give credit where it’s due, but I don’t know who came up with this gem. I also don’t know how long it’s been around. I found it on Facebook—an unexpected and pleasant payoff for my weekly … Continue reading
Geobully
To date, the crazed vengeful maniac known in some quarters as Yambo has not tried to rename the state of New Mexico. If he did, the purported state of “New America” (or “Trumpiana”?) would possibly put up some resistance. The … Continue reading
Немой
America has left me speechless. Thoughts are roiling in my head, but it would be pointless to let them out. This is the one exception. I am speechless.
Teatime
Many pages into Daniel Dennett’s latest opus, I’ve Been Thinking—by turns informative, entertaining, and maddening (“an engaging, vexing memoir with a humility bypass,” as the Guardian headline writer puts it)—one encounters a passage answering to the first two adjectives above, … Continue reading
Mathemagic
The following puzzle appeared in the October/November 2023 issue of the AARP member magazine. What’s next? Each number after the first is derived in the same way from the previous number. What is the number that logically follows 66? 1, … Continue reading
Beastie
As part of our continuing series on the Wonderful World of Bugs, I invite you to take a look at this scary-looking thing that I felt crawling on my neck on May 10: I had no idea what it was. But, once again: … Continue reading
Squelch
From the New York Times today I learned about the controversy involving Rebecca Journey’s course “The Problem of Whiteness” at the University of Chicago (my alma mater). Like many, if not most, modern controversies, this one begins with a misunderstanding … Continue reading
