Jack Lynch

Article from 1922 headed "Dr Johnson's Birthday: The Literateur as 'Feminist'"

Surely this goes too far!

Article from 1929, "Dr. Johnson on Women's Fashions (By Wireless from Elysium, Boswell Speaking)"

SJ, fashionista!

Penn English in the '90s kept getting memos saying we were out of compliance with Grad School policies, and had to require a defense. We'd say "Dear me! So sorry!We'll get right on that!" and then just ignore it until the next time a bureaucrat discovered we weren't complying.

If she's bothered by weeds, I'm thinking this isn't a public policy difference so much as a case of hayfever.

Same! My shameful secret is that I never had a doctoral defense — my program weirdly didn't require it then — so the only big obstacle was the Margin Lady.

SJ, silver-screen matinee idol!

Dr Johnson on 'Votes for Flappers' (By Psychic Wireless from Elysium--Boswell speaking.)

SJ as jazz-age suffragist!

And this one's for @petersokolowski.bsky.social

DR. JOHNSON ON ‘' CROSS- WORDS." No _less an authority than the great Dr. Johnson is alleged to contribute his opinion on the cross-word craze in the amusing anecdotal pages of the ‘“ Windsor Magazine "’ for fiay. Boswell is represented as saying: ‘‘ I ohserve there is a great rage for the new cross-word diversion. Is this, in your opinion, a good thing?” And Johnson replied: ““ Why, yes, sir. It enlarges the general knowledge of the populace, and renders them familiar | with the names .of birds and beasts of whose existence they have hitherto been ignorant. And. sir. it vastly increases the sale of my dictionary.”

SJ, cruciverbalist avant la lettre.

I think if I got voicemail from Chotiner asking to find time to speak, I'd just run into the wilderness and take my chances living among the wildlife.

Fox’s Sean Hannity and Mark Levin and The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro are among the most outspoken supporters of the war, while Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Steve Bannon are some of its most vocal critics. The feud has become heated: On Tuesday, Kelly called Hannity a “supplicant to Donald Trump” (true) while Shapiro denounced Kelly as an “unbelievable coward” and Carlson as a conspiracy-obsessed antisemite (also true).

Please, guys, don't fight. That would make me sad.

And you can't put a price on that.

ChatGPT The official app by OpenAl Open = ChatGPT < Log in Come up with a list of ten plausible reasons for a war against Iran

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Rutgers has brilliantly negotiated the monthly cost of Microsoft Copilot from $20 a month if you subscribe the normal way, to just $20 a month if you get it through the Rutgers software portal!

Charles Churchill (satirist) - Wikipedia

I can only assume this is the guy everyone's talking about.

The fact he is called Footlik is further evidence this season’s scriptwriters have given up

Trying to start two wars for each of the seven or eight wars he supposedly ended, huh?

There's a danger that my Gen X peers will never get the chance to ruin the country ourselves!

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

I guess I could still technically be “early career” if I continue teaching past the age of 89.

It'll all be over by Christmas.

Your occasional presence here remains appreciated.

Photo of Lurch from The Addams Family

Then there's the bawdier version — I've heard the immature and naive (and presumably virginal) referred to as "ain't-never-beens."

AUTOMATIC F'S ALL ROUND FOR MAKING ME FEEL OLD

"The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young, is to preach at it" — Kipling

Interesting that Fox News isn't cheerleading the war.

Spot on.

I remember when Friedrich Merz, the evil chancellor of Germany, took office in 1933.

"It's a distraction" is shorthand for "why are we not talking about my favorite subject?"

Fear not! US-led regime change in the Middle East has never gone wrong before!