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I think it's gotta be Koufax in the WS or Spitz. but yeah up there.
New Cynthia Ozick story. Ozick is 97. Inspiring! jewishreviewofbooks.com/literature/1...
I think I was onto something here ...
he's not!
DC Metro now has phone service at all times ... we can never allow this to happen in NYC
If I were Substack or Ghost or any individual newsletter-writer I think I'd be flipping out
The war on literacy culture continues (I'm not really joking)
there used to be no basketball the Sunday evening of the first March Madness weekend
The new thing at the bottom of Gmail cuts off some of the space where you used to be able to read your emails, but at least it also has a lot of completely blank white space
You know where I'd like to read several more articles about Sonny ... www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
you're being modest -- you were hugely influential here
I'll take that bet
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
Anyway, I would guess the first writer's name I knew was Dr. Seuss. The second was Thomas Boswell. ✊
Not to pull rank, but it's objectively the case -- it was statistically a fact -- that at least during my childhood no newspaper meant more to its city than The Post did to D.C. It is impossible to think there does not remain long-term value in covering non-national news of interest to its readers.
The snow in New York is just amazingly foul at this point. It works like those black lights that reveal that all your surfaces are actually covered in disgusting bodily fluids. Practicing the willful blindness necessary to living here is getting to be impossible...
I don't think we're ever again approaching this historic confluence of polling-as-forensics and polling-as-praxis
sincerely believe Rodgers would have won three more Super Bowls with a merely above-average coach
omg
Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.
The picture of his cubby
This was one of my thoughts regarding Rob Reiner: how heartbreaking that he had to live to see that
An image from An American Tail
Marty Mauser on the Lower East Side
Not on the beat anymore, but there's a real Burkean lament to be written about Notre Dame foregoing a bowl after missing the playoffs. "Notre Dame" is basically a creation of the Rose Bowl, as so much in the imagined community of college football is.
Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new bsky.app/profile/achi...
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
