Ted Bunn

That's a good idea. I haven't seen that movie in years.

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This is just to say

I have bulldozed

the East Wing

that you were probably

hoping to pass down

to future generations

Well, fuck you

it was in the way

so inconvenient

and so old

Not the main point, I know, but I had no idea when “Night Before Christmas” was written. I would have put it about 50 years later than it actually was. As a result, I had no idea that Moore and Jefferson were contemporaries.

I get inordinate pleasure every time these groups waste a tiny bit of money by sending things to me.

"Anything we can actually do, we can afford." We can have a more equal, more prosperous, and more just nation as soon as we embrace this.

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Profound missed the opportunity to have written "which is mathematically impossible, says local average middle schooler Sally Jenkins."

I don’t know that the snake would agree

My uncle occasionally had to kill rattlesnakes that got into his house. He always ate them too, because he disliked the idea of killing a creature to no purpose.

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

The eloquence… the polite, calm, resolute boundaries…

10/10 no notes.

I sincerely aspire to have the self possession to generate something like this in a similar situation. I am inspired.

vance to his kids: “it is okay to tell your friends you love hitler as long as you don’t get caught”

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

I’m very relieved that Penn and other universities are doing this. I don’t think it was at all clear in advance that they would.

I think it’s good to read serious, thoughtful people who have very different political views from my own. I used to think Douthat was such a person. I was wrong. At the NYT, we’re down to just David French as a candidate for this role. (Stephens is a troll, and Brooks is, well, whatever Brooks is.)

What would the ending of The Godfather be without her face?

Relieved to hear that at least one university is doing this. I hope others follow.

We do have a great job. I sometimes get impatient when my colleagues complain about our jobs, although I understand that it’s human nature to do so.

Sad to see the University of Washington Astronomy Department has suspended graduate admissions for the 2026-2027 Academic Year. astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...

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Two NYT headlines: Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal, Some See a Trap. Duke Was Paring Back Diversity Programs. Trump Targeted It Anyway.

The main reason universities should say no to this deal is that it's a betrayal of what a university is all about. But in case any administrators aren't convinced by that, I hope they draw the right lesson from the second story: the Trump administration won't abide by any deal they make anyway.

Any university that signs this thing has betrayed what should be its principles. I’d like to say that if my university signed, I would resign in protest. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t, because I like my job and where I live, but I wish that I would. Anyway, I hope the choice doesn’t arise.

I’m incandescently furious about the stray apostrophe in “Roberts”.

When the history of this era is written, people like Robert’s will be among the chief villains. He’s morally far worse than Trump because he understands exactly what he’s doing and has the capacity to choose not to do it.

As is so often the case, the best part of this SMBC comic is the extra panel you get by clicking on the big red button on the web site. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/priors

The most natural-sounding phrase I found was “run on by me”

If I use my real first name (rather than my nickname) along with my last name, I can be an embryo nun.

I am envious of your anagram-friendly name

(For the record, I know that NaN is different from Inf, and I’ll bet the guy who chose that number plate knew it too. He didn’t let it stop him from making the joke, and I didn’t let it stop me from enjoying it.

I saw a car once with license plate number IEEE NAN. The car was an Infiniti.