I am not sure what a conceiver is, unless related somehow to the song I enjoyed when a child, written by Neil Diamond and played for me by the Monkees: 'I'm a Conceiver. '

Some NYC blackout stories from 3 blackouts.

A deep dive into the blackout 1977

'Faintly at first, the psychiatrist heard the sound of bagpipes.'

mrbellersneighborhood.com/2003/12/blacko…

James Goodman

Oh Washington Post, here's a question to which I really didn't need your expert answer. I could pretty much figure it out on my own. washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/07…

An embarrassment. An utter embarrassment.

I don’t initiate texts often, but this is big: I scored 100 percent on the 8th grade US history quiz. nytimes.com/2023/05/03/us/…

Read all the indictment skeptics, on our side as well as theirs, and then for a broader view, read jelani cobb Terrific piece: newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

I don't tweet much, and don't have a lot of followers, but this is insightful and powerful recent history from Perry Bacon, Jr., at the WP: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

HA. I don't think they are completely gone -- I got approved for TSA -- but they are not the best fingerprints for an iPhone. It's funny, now that I think of it, they work perfectly on my laptop, which also has fingerprint reading instead of passwords for lots of functions.

In this age of chaos, confusion enormous uncertainty about everything, gray zones, and the daily temptation of despair, I really appreciate a question with an easy, simple, indisputable answer. Yours is one: No. And my kids are old.

I don't even know if they are college basketball fans, but I can't help thinking of my friends Karen Caplan and D. Freund on nights like these.

As the author of several books on race in U.S. history, I worry that it is now going to be a badge of dishonor NOT to be on the Texas legislator's list of suspect books. 850 is a long list not to make.

nytimes.com/2021/12/10/us/…

It takes a lot to move me to tweet first, as opposed to simply reply to the tweets of others, but the Pulitzer Prize deserving first line of this art review has done it: 'Hunter Biden is an emerging artist from Wilmington, Del.'
nytimes.com/2021/11/05/art…

Happy to learn of this group and happy to contribute. I can't add to your birthday total because I went cold turkey on FB several years ago, but I went to the website and will return often until the day, which I don't expect to live to see, the service is no longer necessary.