I am sick to death of disgraced men who are so completely and irrationally convinced that voters love them and that they will spoil a certain election victory to assuage their egos. No one wanted you back, Andrew Cuomo, and you handed the election to a lightweight gadfly.

On this date in 1864, Gen. John Sedgwick, one of the finest Union corps commanders, was shot down by a Confederate sharpshooter. His penultimate utterance -- and for once, I am not making it up -- was: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
His final rasp: "Welp. This is awkward as fuck."

Tales of the City, Manhattan. On a bus, texting my daughter, only to hear, "Mom. Mom! I'm on this bus too."

Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.

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Judge Amy Berman Jackson has formally dismissed the case of Jan. 6 defendant DJ Rodriguez, who drove a taser into the neck of MPD officer Michael Fanone and had been sentenced to 12 years in prison

"Michael Fanone's heroism will never be moot," she says.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Great column. Depressing but great.

Elon Musk’s Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather The billionaire has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. A closer read of history reveals something much darker.

This explains a lot.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Can You Spend 10 Minutes With This Painting? (Gift Article) We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cool exercise and diversion from the world. There's a lot going on here.

The same person who created the Threads Chanuka puzzle calling challah a Chanuka food must have done today’s puzzle too.

Did you learn nothing from the last election? Do you think that only righteous amendments will pass?

Not Spelling Bee, but the rest, and I also have a few at WaPo - mini xword, Keyword, the news quote....

Linked in has a few games too, but not great.

58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains. (Gift Article) Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.

A terrific story of the Harlem 58 photo. His son said of the photographer, Art Kane, “He was a control freak,” he said of his father, “who also believed in serendipity.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Thoughts on Hunter pardon:

- I don’t love it, but I completely understand why he did it

- with everything the incoming administration is telling us they’re going to do, we probably need to stop handcuffing ourselves with standards they won’t follow

- I wish it wasn’t this way