Matt Cohen

"There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of. There were -- loose threads; untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I -- pulled on one of those threads; it unraveled the tapestry of my life." - Jean-Luc Picard (“Tapestry”, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

DUCK auto-correct. Duck it, duck it, duck it!

Years back I had some conservative colleagues come to town and I put them up in Minneapolis east bank. I asked them how they liked it. "Great" they replied. I said "Welcome to Little Mogadishu that Fox News keeps dumping on as some kind of war zone". I hoped they would wake up.

I'll miss TikTok but am more troubled the Supreme Court didn't overturn the Bill of Attainder used to attack TikTok since the path is now paved for the government to take down other forums for expression and entities. The Supreme Court has this effectively granted judicial power to other branches.

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Morgan, my trainer 😁

I may wait a bit to go to the gym this morning

Chanukah beginning to end.

Story up at the gym

When the social contract is broken, when all manner of civilized means of resolution are exhausted, violence is inevitable. FAFO

Gothmas setup

Picture of a modern glass house

Happy Friday!

A photo I took when traveling in NYC a few years ago - "church and state"

Michelle likes to paint cozy places you would want to retreat to in stressful times

Ms. Flappity - women in dress takes flight on her bat wings

Ms Flappity - woman in Victorian garb feeding her pet bat

My wife Michelle creates all kinds of art. More at msfledermaus.com

Ditto

*eyes the pantry, with all ingredients extant therein*

Ah, turned on the sound ... Removing any doubt 🙄

Yummm. Are those nuts bound with Nutella? Can't tell

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it

Thought we'd be opposites since I went to Bronx Science and you Stuyvesant. But I guess Carleton got us on a similar track.

Used parsnips in the cholent this weekend. Maybe you're in MY brain!

Caligula appointed a horse to the Roman Senate. This is no different, except he's just appointing the back part of the horse.

My friend AK created this beautiful Medusa artwork with the names of 1821 people who experienced sexual violence and the ages at which it occurred. More information at futiledevice.com

Graffiti mural near my home

Sylvie’s Cholent “The odd feeling of home nestled in that first taste of cassoulet was in fact the taste memory of my ancestors,” Ms. Bigar writes in her memoir “Cassoulet Confessions,” in reference to cholent. She ad...

We have entered the season of cholent though tonjiru won't be far behind!

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