Nancy Friedman

It's a great car, so of course Honda discontinued it.

2018 Honda Clarity plug-in hybrid. ~52 miles on electric. ~350 miles total.

I last bought gas in October 2025, when I drove from the Bay Area to L.A. and back.

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

a man in a top hat stands next to a child and says " goggles on please " Alt: Mike TV from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

It makes so much sense to put ALL these villains on TV, non-stop, for ongoing viral-video interrogations—to get them to slip up, to say something that pisses him off, to look weak— because the only thing that matters to this guy is what happens on the tube

Poster for MEN OF WAR, a 2024 documentary from Billy Corben and Jen Gatien. In May 2020, a ragtag group of American-led insurrectionists attempted to infiltrate Venezuela and overthrow the regime of Nicolas Maduro. “Operation Gideon” was a spectacular failure. MEN OF WAR brings audiences inside this misbegotten mission, the latest in a string of covert U.S. interventions in Latin America. Only this time, with a Trump era flavor.

This seems timely. New on Kanopy:

Am I the only viewer who was unable to make through even a single episode of "The Pitt"?

Tbf I've never watched any other hospital dramas, either.

(I did chuckle through a couple of episodes of OG "Scrubs.")

Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.

> @benstiller.redhour.com

In a crowded field that includes Miller, Kash, Hegseth, Marco, RFKJr, Bondi, Vance, Bessent, and until recently Kristi/Corey, etc .... KL deserves a place in the pantheon all her own.

Keep in mind that Noem was not fired for overseeing the murder of American citizens or sending untried men to overseas terror prisons, she was fired for a poor TV performance when being questioned by Congress.

☝️Ht @davepell.bsky.social

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

Make it shitty.

youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Compact Gel Ink Ballpoint Pen Cap Type 0.5mm - Brown A compact version of our best-selling 0.5 mm gel ink pens. Cute, portable, and available in a variety of vibrant colors.

Current fave, and may I add that I am PISSED that Muji folded its brick-and-mortar tents in California. www.muji.us/products/com...

YouTube video by The New Yorker A Father-Daughter Swearing Lesson | “The F-Word” | The New Yorker

"The F-Word," a father-daughter swearing lesson.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42t...

Well, the marketing copy is pretty asexual. But if you're right, that's even ickier.

A name that makes me say "eww" What is it about MOLECULE that creeps me out? Plus: some notes on "handfeel" and "kah-un."

On name aversion, "handfeel," and glottalization, with musical accompaniment from "My Fair Lady."

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fritinancy.substack.com/p/a-name-tha...

“Presumably, these different AI agents are trained on the oeuvres of the people they are meant to imitate, though the legality of this content-harvesting remains murky at best, and the subject of many, many copyright lawsuits.”

Starting in 2026, the National Endowment for the Humanities will only fund research on "Western civilization"

Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

What California's gubernatorial candidates won't say So far this is a conventional race during an extraordinary time

The question that no candidate for governor has even tried to answer: What's your plan if Trump decides to turn one of California's cities into another Minneapolis? publiccomment.blog/p/what-calif...

Oh, excellent. Thanks!

Where was this?

YouTube video by Rare Music Spam Isyss - Oh No She Didn't

This is from 2002 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmaZ...

Thanks -- I saw that, but it doesn't feel complete or completely up to date.

It's the glottalized T before nasals that seems newish to me.

Yep.

When did that start?

I hear "buh-in" and "kah-in" (etc.) all the time from younger American "influencers." Where did it come from? Harry Potter? 4/fin

YouTube video by Norbert Leo Butz - Topic With a Little Bit of Luck

Here's the 2018 version. Norbert Leo Butz is an American actor affecting a Cockney accent. 3/x www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvCz...

YouTube video by Stanley Holloway - Topic With a Little Bit of Luck

Please correct me if I'm wrong. 2/x
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmmO...

I've been burrowing into the (newly popular in AmE) glottalized pronunciations of words like "cotton" (kah-ihn) and "Manhattan" (man-ha-ihn). Sometimes called "Cockney glottal stop," but Stanley Holloway doesn't use it in "With a Little Bit of Luck" (1958). Norbert Leo Butz does, though! (2018) 1/x