Just Simone de Beauvoir for me.

Obliquity! See John Kay …

Why indeed!

Forgive me - which image it?

Forgive my ignorance - which national flag in the sanctuaries of which churches?

Tried to find it on a streaming service to no avail …

Agreed. Thucydides records the classic “Might is right” argument in the Melian dialogue. But things did not turn out so well for the Athenians, who made the claim.

The older you get the more you used to know.

This is why you don’t quote a chatbot.
ON ANYTHING…!
Has @reuters.com lost their marbles?

I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites

Could not help thinking that the Smell the Glove(?) cover was not much different to Sabrina Carpenters 2025 Mans Best Friend. Unless context is absolutely everything …

I’m not sure . It looks as if the problem is not that the cars were powered by electricity but that the autonomous driving system did not cope with a blackout. Electric motors have for a long time powered trams, trains and elevators- the safest and most reliable modes of transport ever created.

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

Such a brilliant scene.

YouTube video by Norah Jones Norah Jones – Black Hole Sun (Detroit Fox Theatre 5.23.17)

If you need to chill, try this youtu.be/XbQ08Ixczvo?...

I think embroidered frock coats are overdue for a come back.

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

Though not an American I have been a believer in America all my adult life. I try to have the sense of history your essay embodies so well. And I am naturally an optimist. But this year I am more and more inclined to give up hope for you all. I know it has been worse before. But the trend now …

The fact that the USSC has lost Bill Kristol on this issue says a great deal.

What could they think of today? First up perhaps they would be staggered by the wealth of the poor. Give them a year and they would be revolutionaries again?

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.

It's a lie.

All these are true.

Tweet from @tomgara Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photos of it, assuming she’d recognise the look but not the name etc, and she was just like, this is pathetic, your ancestors were small and weak

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

If only it were that simple. The dead and dying would include their neighbors, the workers who install it, the families of the workers whose work clothes are washed and dried at home, subsequent owners of the house, people doing repairs on or demolition of the house, and on and on …

There you have it one paragraph- a stunning portrait of political decay. If was just the decadence of a party it would one thing. But it is hard to avoid the conclusion that it is the decadence of a very large part of the country.

The parade was a silly idea. But if doing it at all, covering the history is a good idea. That was an 80 year old tank. Squeaks expected.

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more crime in america

Notable indeed. Is she too a Catholic convert? So many … tensions.

Thank you! From the antipodes I don’t have vice presidential spouses names top of mind.