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There are two birds inside you.

My sense is that in the end they were comparatively light-touch, like "keep doing what you're doing, we'll open up more trade routes and take a cut," but getting to that point was "or else we'll kill you and everyone you know."

The word of the summer is "hubris."

The good kind! For once.

In 1675 the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sent a letter to the Zaporozhian Cossacks demanding they surrender to him. He got a spectacularly insulting reply. Watch and gurgle with delight as Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi recreate this robust exchange, industrial swearing and all.

This Cliffite revisionism will not stand.

"President Donald Trump plans to tout his handling of the economy during a visit to suburban Detroit today, defending sweeping tariffs in a swing state where their effects have hurt many businesses as midterm election season heats up." No plan survives first contact with the teleprompter.

In the $3 range, which tops out at $6.

No more water, the fire next time.

Too weak and woke to stand up to the Qajar Menace.

What's an "academic translation"?

Meanwhile Trump has continued to demonstrate that it's impossible to make a deal with him. He's walking away from the Canada/Mexico trade deal he negotiated; he's adding impossible T&C to a deal he negotiated with Saudi Arabia, which is both a "friendly" country and a Trump business partner.

That may not be as high a bar as we've been led to think.

The original Take Five seems like Brubeck teaching the others the 5/4 signature, keeping the beat while they figure out what they can do with it. The version on, e.g., Live at Carnegie Hall is a lot looser and more . . . developed? (Also LACH has Castilian Drums, which I adore. So there.)

Underrated skeet.

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

Big ol' doofus who just wants to kill monsters. What's not to love?