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Sure, kids look at their phones for hours a day, but books are the real cause of mental health issues among high school students.

Attn: JD Vance, et. al.

This is awesome.

His films were a revelation when I first discovered them forty years ago. He trusted audiences to pay sustained attention.

A button from the 1984 Jesse Jackson presidential campaign.

First vote I cast.

I wish this had also asked about Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi.

But you must have googled Lou Grant.

Enjoy!

ah, i will keep an eye out for it.

Kia and Hyundai make great EVs. The Bolt appeals to me because size-wise it's closest to the trusty Honda Fit that I can park anywhere. The Volvo EX-30 is also very compact, but the range and the price are less attractive.

Knowing what you know, would you buy a new Bolt this year? Asking for me.

Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore

Never, in a million kabillion years, when I decided to say "screw it" to mainstream philosophy and started writing about the philosophy of games, could I have imagined that this road would take me down to having the goddamn NY Times profile me and my new book.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

HOW I FAILED I tried to fit the body of light into the body of darkness. I tried to lengthen the last landscape. I tried to unhinge and reconstruct / the language I had been given. I tried to fit the body of darkness into the body of light. —Charles Wright

"How I Failed"—Charles Wright.

i have invented a new way to release an album and you are free to have it. you teach a song to a large enough population of birds, perhaps reward them with some nice birdseed - they will then teach it to their brethren and so the music propagates. you can hear the music if you listen to birds

The Man Who Saw School Buses as Vehicles for Possibility

for a change, here’s a good guy doing a good thing in a good way
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/r...

Thanks for this. I was just listening to the early Jamal Trio recordings yesterday, so this is perfectly timed.

Amid a humanitarian disaster fueled by russian strikes on critical infrastructure, Ukrainians are fighting to protect stray animals from the freezing winter. From makeshift shelters and fleece blankets to shops and cafes opening their doors, people are doing

Where does one apply to become the person who walks through the airport terminal with a speaker playing bird calls, in order to pied piper them out of the building? I did not know this was a job and it looks very satisfying

Grave marker for Mark Sandman of Morphine and other awesome bands

I saw them many times. So very under appreciated!

"I'm not mad at you" as your last words on earth are really not all that far from "forgive them father for they know not what they do."

Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025. Here’s what they got right | CNN Politics In the year 1998 – when Bill Clinton was president, most households still had landline phones, and CNN’s website looked like this – Gallup and USA Today called up 1,055 Americans on those landlines an...

www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

E.B. White, The New Yorker, 1934.

YouTube video by eccentricXXX Art Tatum -- Yesterdays

(44) Art Tatum -- Yesterdays - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Cs...

New Listens, Final Third of 2025 Charles Lloyd, Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Gwenifer Raymond, Sean Shibe, and more

Some of the music in my ears over the past few months. open.substack.com/pub/soundsou...

Or fixes.

To Slobber and Protect: Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Kept an Election Safe

Such good dogs. #nj www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...?

A true Christmas message.

The winter leaves crumble between my hands
December leaves
How is it we can’t accept this that all trees were holy once
That all light is altar light
And floods us day by day and bids us the air sheet lightning around us
To sit still and say nothing
here under the latches of Paradise?
Charles Wright

YouTube video by NPR Music Sean Shibe: Tiny Desk Concert

Sean Shibe hitting the Tiny Desk Concert studio. Mesmerising.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNJR...

Patti Smith and Tony Shanahan at McCarter Theater, with Eliza Griswold grooving in the background, 12/15/25.