Wait until he learns about the glory of Greece.

This is wild. Don’t think I’ve ever quite seen anything like this.

If you have to move to North America and still want to have the same climate as back in the old country.

Fifty Shades of Grey has so much to answer for. I see a lot of online mockery of Gen Z’s dislike of sex, but how can you blame them, especially the women? And the cited data on brain damage from this is terrifying.

Great Mary Oliver line in this v good Brooks column today: “This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know: that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness.” nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opi…

Because pot was very unjustifiably lumped in with hard drugs, there was a defensive overcorrection in narrative that made it out to be completely innocuous. It should be legal and it's def safer than most others, but it has risks (psych dependency, mental acuity, depression, etc)

'Nearly 2/3 of women in her most recent survey of 5,000 students at a 'major Midwestern university' said a partner choked them during sex (1/3 in their most recent encounter). The rate who said they were btwn ages 12 and 17 the first time shot up to 40%.' nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opi…

Persuasion is back, it’s no longer just turning out your base for the Biden campaign.

'An internal Boeing review found that Chief Executive David Calhoun and other top executives took personal trips worth more than $500,000 on the company’s private jets and other planes that were improperly recorded as business travel.' wsj.com/business/boein… via The Wall Street Journal

NYC subway fare evasion post-pandemic is completely normalized in a way it wasn't before.

At my stop a crowd just waits for the train to pull up, and for someone to walk through the emergency gate... then they all just walk onto the platform.

'Some 30% of Black men in the poll said they were either definitely or probably going to vote for the former Republican president...Trump received votes from 12% of Black men nationwide in 2020, as recorded by AP VoteCast, a large poll of the electorate.' wsj.com/politics/elect…

'Everyone makes their own choices, but my experience of war crimes taught me that being Jewish means standing against any nation that commits war crimes.

*Any.*'

Peter Maass: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

A truly encouraging trend in homicide numbers in Philadelphia, which experienced one of the worst violence surges in the country from 2020-2022. The year-to-date tally (top row) is now back to pre-pandemic levels. Full year tallies on lower row.

Increasing cost of living with decreasing social capital

Rolling bookouts

The reporter called the guy's wife once, apologized for bothering her, and asked if the wife could pass her number along to her husband (whom the reporter had not been able to reach). That is not 'harassment.' It's the most basic type of reporting.

The disgusting and unforgivable harassment from this WaPo reporter is *checks notes* leaving a polite voice mail.

This is the same problem being faced by most public institutions- when you have a crisis of drug use and violence, the level of resources (human and fiscal) required to operate shoots up dramatically

You can either cut services or increase funding, but you can't do nothing

Have you tried locking libraries behind giant plexiglass shields?

How does one of the wealthiest metro areas in the world come to this?