Deb Amlen

OATCLICK: The action of selecting one’s dairy preference for coffee on an office vending machine. #pangram

#SuperBowlLX Update: For those interested in watching the alternative, “All American” half-time show, go to your local streaming platform, find the “filter” dropdown menu and click “racist.”

Thank you!

I needed to make more cowboy candy (sweet pickled jalapeños) and I made way too much brine.

And that is how I wound up with 2 qts of cowboy candy (we’re a homemade crunch wrap-intensive household), sweet hot pickled carrots, 2 jars of sweet hot pickled pearl onions (for martinis), Officer.

Thank you! I’ll let Carly know! 🩵

As for me and my family, we shall eat food from the #Pokemon shows and games.

Made by my older child, this is croissant curry from #PokemonZA. And we were surprised that it rocked.

Hillary Clinton calls for public hearing in House Epstein investigation Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee in its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, but she...

How mutually assured destruction works.

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Not me in NJ going “Where? Where?? That’s so cheap!”

I’m calling it: FIFA Award for Best Picture

Driving around in Florida and noticed that Southern Blvd (which leads to TFG’s house) in West Palm Beach has been renamed after TFG

Theres no official street sign on the part where we were, but it’s on the GPS

Catherine O’Hara, Two-Time Emmy Winner and ‘Home Alone’ Star, Dies at 71 O’Hara died Friday after a brief illness.

Flags at half mast and lots of sobbing

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Ice cream counts toward one’s calcium intake, right?

Thank you!

How an Anxious Game Player Learned to Compete

My final article for The Times: A quasi-therapy session about summoning the competitive gamer in me

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/c...

Not happy.

Thank goodness i remembered to put my car wipers up 🙄

Doge improperly shared sensitive social security data, DoJ court filing reveals Trump administration acknowledges that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting operation accessed Americans’ sensitive data

No kidding. The only thing left out of the headline is that they were shared with a “secret data-sharing agreement with an unidentified political advocacy group whose stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states”

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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

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TORYPLAY: A UK-specific fetish involving members of the Conservative Party.

#pangram

LATTECIZE: An exercise program for seniors that involves aerobics performed to music while balancing a cup of hot coffee in each hand.

The inventor of this program may or may not be on the run from the law.

I would have become a travel writer, but there doesn't appear to be much of a market for articles with titles like "Wind Chill: Not a Fan"

PCINNAMON: A popular product from the Politically Correct Spice Co.

Thanks, Greg!

Really enjoying this new phase of my life where I can rewatch a series like it’s brand new because I don’t remember watching it in the first place

Never been prouder of my home state. But if your name is Tim, please sleep with one eye open.

I don’t want to live in a Christian country I want to live in a country where i have the right to choose to be a Christian - or a Muslim, or a Buddhist, or a Jew or an atheist.

There is absolutely nothing better than watching Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper host New Year’s Eve while they’re three sheets to the wind.

Thank you, Kevin!

Filed my final Wordplay column yesterday.

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YouTube video by Tiikuri How to open a door - Finnish instructional video from 1979

An important reminder, and one reason why Finland is whipping our butts in the documentation wars.

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