William Bennett

Is the story true that there were three Commelinus men, two of whom were naturalists and a third who was a ne’er-do-well - and that Linnaeus named this plant with two bold blue petals and one vestigial petal after them?

I share your view, but I wonder when it becomes insufficient. (The Nuremberg trials were not, strictly speaking, legal; there was no existing constitution to constrain them; and they were violent.)

Grainy portrait of a man wearing a Prince Hall Masonic Insignia

Prince Hall & his collaborators twice endeavored to pass legislation in the Massachusetts state senate to end slavery. In a 1777 petition they argued for “the Natural Right of all Men” & against “the inconsistency of [people] acting themselves the part which they condemn and oppose in others . . .”

Unnerving use of perspective.

Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

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Thank you. This is helpful.

Within some limits, I am. Do you have a recommendation?

The Three Pashas running the empire are Miller, Vought, and Rubio.

JD is trying to find his fez but is mostly just a spoiler.

Is there a good email platform?

Yes. I have noticed.

Unfortunately, Corporal Shmoe isn’t the one who should be persecuted, it is General This and Colonel That who should be prosecuted. And good luck with it.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

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For prose, of course, Raymond Chandler. The early ones, e.g. “The Big Sleep, are best.

Kate Atkinson, who has written two masterpieces, “Life After Life” and “A God in Ruins,” also writes mysteries.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Markwayne Moron, you said?

Sorry. I should have included the tongue-in-cheek emoji, if there is one.

How much longer will the Maldives exist? Won’t they be under water around the time South Florida becomes unlivable?

'Face of the Moon.' (1797) John Russell was the finest British pastel artist of his time. One of his sitters, the astronomer William Herschel encouraged him to buy a telescope, and with this he produced a number of remarkable pastel drawings of the moon.

It seems like he is supporting some combination of UBI and Medicare for All. One could get behind that concept of a plan.

House punts on sweeping energy bill that would dial back state climate commitments - CommonWealth Beacon After intense blowback to a draft House bill to weaken the state’s 2030 clean energy target, the chamber’s budget chief says the topic is on hold until next year.

We need to get real #mapoli. The state’s approach to reducing transport sector emissions is failing, was flawed from the start, & it’s time to correct it. We need to shift from our “EV only” policy toward a multimodal approach that encourages mode shift. commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...

And “A Lost Lady.”

Well, we seem to be okay with multiple murder. Why stop there?

Small boy in totally A+ green outfit, at the Spanish court in the 1560s. By Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puff’d and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

I heard Isak Dinesen read two of her stories around 1959. Streep nailed the accent and the sound of her voice.

Just finished “What We Can Know.” If it were half the length, it would be three-quarters as tedious.