Jim Clarke

Father Coughlin, the radio priest. Now there’s a nasty little chapter in the history of this nation’s mass media.

And if the U.S. Navy doesn't always have ballistic missile subs "in the appropriate regions" 24-7, 365, I'm not sure what we're paying for.

Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.

FLAG: Trump just directed his team to fire the Commissioner of Labor Statistics over the latest jobs numbers reports.

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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Potatoes Evolved From … Tomatoes? Dipping fries into ketchup just got a little more mind-bending.

Scientists have spent decades puzzling over potatoes’ origin story. The answer was juicier than anyone expected, @katherinejwu.com reports.

If the Rockies were to trade any or all of their young, intriguing relief pitchers, they would struggle to hold leads and might wind up losing some absurd, perhaps historic, number of games in a season, so you can see why that's an unthinkable proposition

Crompton. Off Cowesett Ave.

Take it easy, roasted leg of lamb man.

Yep. Catholic school in West Warwick in the 1970s was basically one long conversation about social justice.

Hoisted on your own Oreo-tainted petard.

Historians Confirm Lewis And Clark Set Out On Expedition To Justify Purchase Of Expensive Camping Equipment

Historians Confirm Lewis And Clark Set Out On Expedition To Justify Purchase Of Expensive Camping Equipment theonion.com/histori...

Ok, not a historian … but Taylor Branch’s “Parting the Waters: America in the King Years” is worth considering, as is “Common Ground” by Anthony Lukas, about the Boston busing crisis. I read both in grad school. They left a mark.

Pastafarians rejoice! You have nothing to lose but your collanders.

Among the more fascinating historical debates ....

American men are 31 points more likely than women to say the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified, Pew finds. That's about 3 times the gender gap in support for Trump/Harris last year www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Or, we could just reactivate/repoint the Cobra Dane/Cobra Ball operation on Shemya (still among my all-time favorite datelines.)

Great human, or greatest human?

@dicknixon.bsky.social Of interest. Missile gap.

A classic of the genre.

The state’s history supports this observation. It’s not really debatable.

Project Veritas Withdraws Lawsuit Against The New York Times

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...

Yeah, the role of news judgment and the serendipity of coming across stories that an editor thought you ought to see are wildly underappreciated parts of the former world.

i think it rules that there was an antislavery justice on the antebellum supreme court named "john mcclean"

Court rules New York State Police must disclose officer names in misconduct records The New York Civil Liberties Union and the New York State Police have been fighting for years over misconduct records that the state legislature made public in 2020.

Latest: A judge ruled the New York State Police must disclose the names of officers it redacted from misconduct records sought by the NYCLU.

It's the latest in a five-years-and-running FOIA battle over police misconduct records in New York reason.com/2025/07/24/c...

HC is my least favorite song of all time so the fact that I laughed out loud at this is a real achievement

Non-zero chance this is my wife.

Attorney General Told Trump His Name Appeared in Epstein Files

Bondi informed Trump in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, but White House officials say there is no indication of any wrongdoing by the president. Maggie Haberman @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...

No, the Green Bay Packers are not a realistic business model for your local newspaper Until the news business adopts NFL-style revenue sharing — which, um, it won't — the Packers are more of an exception than a useful metaphor.

Attention Patrick Soon-Shiong, Jon Stewart, and anyone else who needs reminding:

No, the Green Bay Packers are not a realistic business model for your local newspaper

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