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A question, though: investigative reporters can move mountains, unearth treasures. Cf, Sy Hersh and My Lai, the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" series, etc. So why has no US journalist been able to discern the physical and mental status of Mitch McConnell for the past fifty days?

Remember the Before Times, when they way to win was to get the most votes?

In 2011, at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Trump — in the audience — was roasted by President Obama. You could see the steam emerging from his ears. It was perhaps at that moment he decided to run for President. In addition to Obama's verbal comments, there was a screen with this image:

I am now officially generated and veneered. #emeritus

To anyone who thinks a megamerger between Paramount and Warner Bros will create more employment, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I would like to sell to you.

Once again the @nytimes.com feels compelled to insert a “critics say” in front of an indisputable fact. This addiction to Both Sides Always serves neither journalism nor the larger world, and is part of the devaluation of reality that has led us to very bad places.

Once again the @nytimes.com feels compelled to insert a “critics say” in front of an indisputable fact. This addiction to Both Sides Always will serves neither journalism nor the larger world, and is part of the devaluation of reality that has led us to very bad places.

Thank you, @filmforumnyc.bsky.social!

“Unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power.” —Philip K. Dick, "How To Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later," 1978.

“‘To Serve Man’ — it’s a cookbook!”

One of the great American artists. May she rest in peace and power.

Everyone knows an ant can't move a rubber tree plant... ...but we did. #blockthemerger

Breaking! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Paramount Agrees to Delay Warner Bros. Merger for MonthsThe company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.www.nytimes.com

I'll be reading from my newly reissued novels DESTINY EXPRESS and THE GREAT EASTERN this Sunday, 6pm, at Riffraff Books in Providence. In conversation with the great and good Laura Colella. Merriment guaranteed, and a dollop of what Don Barthelme used to call "unhealthy mental excitement." Join us!

Studies have not ruled out the possibility that Mitch McConnell is alive.