Joel Kaye

Meet Pokey, an undersized Eastern box turtle with a cult following “There’s just something about him,” said one attendee at the turtle’s 30th birthday party.

If the Washington Post thinks it can keep me from canceling my subscription by name-checking both my grandkids and quoting one of them in a story about a turtle's birthday party, well . . . um . . .
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Let's call the whole thing off.

He Made Me Who I Am and Then Forgot Who He Was Daddy

I am angry at the MAGA movement for being so effective in marketing hate to the exact demographic my dad represented. I am also angry at my dad for falling for it.

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Alan Watts. The Wisdom of Insecurity.

For a moment I thought that was an Osborne 1 manual in your profile photo and got all nostalgic.

The gift was ours to borrow.

Agreed. On the other hand, whoever invented the Oreo should be pilloried.

Murkowski's recent photos give a similar "where'd I leave my soul?" vibe. They know what we know but they try not to let themselves know they know it.

Your dreams are so much better than mine.

I wish people would just say outright that this is their north star—“our goal is to raid all American resources and cultural capital for short-term cash for the richest, whitest men.” Then we could have a real conversation

Hey, no worries. When Todd Blanche gets back from his meeting with Maxwell, he will likely have her sworn statement -- totally not coerced -- that it was only Democrats. And probably Mister Rogers and Big Bird.

Back when the KKK adopted a highway in Missouri, a clever group had that segment officially renamed The Rosa Parks Highway, so that the Klan were suddenly the janitors on the Rosa Parks Highway. Can we please reassemble that group to think up a plan for the Melania Trump Opera House?

Yes, and speaking of middle names, don't you think the definite article often used for him ("The Donald") was misplaced? Should have been before his middle name. Donald "the John" Trump.

On this very point, Howard Fast's "Being Red" is a great read, and in a different time than this would be pretty good source material for a film. It's also proof that although known as a novelist, my friend (like his granddaughter, as is now apparent) was also a damn good memoirist.

He is to Wendell Willkie what Bizarro is to Superman. [I have a litany of reasons for saying that. Your post is just one.]

Always said ALW is the luckiest man in the world. Simply defies explanation.

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Watched the trailer and was, as always, thrown by hearing the voice of our GHS English Dept chair when you speak. Your --I'm gonna say --cousin(?) Charles "Chick" Reich. Anyway, your clear-eyed but hopeful words are a life raft in this storm!

Since Norman Lear can't do it himself, as we all know he would have!

Were John Banner still alive, he'd be mightily pissed at Mike Johnson taking over his signature role.

Always sad when songwriters die and this one along with his wife gave us this line, which matched to its melodic phrasing is a goosebump moment which alone merits a place in the Songwriter Hall of Fame:

The more I love, the more that I'm afraid
That in your eyes I may not see forever . . . forever.

I’ve been looking for a Colbert quote to post that did suitable justice to my reference for him. I think this might be it.

Family who started scholarship sues New College Foundation, alleges money isn't being awarded The scholarship was established for a person of color by the Lentini family, who want the endowment returned. A New College attorney says that's not how gifts work.

I guess the news is out: our family is suing the New College Foundation for failing to award the DEI scholarship we’ve endowed.

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Don’t let this be buried.

The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Must've been a honor to edit him.

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important.
@cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social

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Gemini 1 liftoff with Alan Shepard..