Sam turns three today and is excited to legally drink

Just learned that Mr. Met’s starting salary is $67K.

One the one hand: Cool bit of trivia.
On the other: Strikes me as criminally low.

.@Politico for the win

Saw that Boy George is trending because he's planning a concert w Squeeze this summer (YESSS).

This made me watch the original vid of 'The Crying Game.'

I then realized it's one of those paradoxical examples of a melancholy song bringing SO much joy.

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An organization, PEN America⁩, devoted to protecting the expressive rights of writers & artists doesn’t need to take a stand on issues like the wars in Gaza or Sudan, or on climate change, or on a host of issues. The writers themselves can do that. theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

LBJ and puppies:

I totally love that this guy is living his best life.

Watching Darrell Hammond field even the most insipid questions about what it was like to once host the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, I’m struck by how great comedians are, always, when they talk about what it’s like to work different kinds of rooms.

Gefilte fish is delicious. Fight me.

Happy birthday to Carol Burnett, the warmest of comic performers, who exudes good will even in sharpest satiric mode. Her parodies of classic Hollywood movies honed both my sense of humor and nascent critical sensibility. And nobody ever wore a set of curtains with more elan.

This went viral a few days ago, but I missed it, so I'm posting it for those who need it now—and every day.

A recent work shows how SARS-CoV-2 works like a clever saboteur inside our cells, making sure its own needs are met while disrupting our cells’ ability to defend themselves! It shuts down the machinery output & the ability to make the machinery itself – a serious double hit. 1/

The story of frequent persistence of #SARSCoV2 in multiple organs after mild Covid keeps getting stronger, and correlates (odds ratio >5) with symptoms of #LongCovid
🆕The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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Re the recent TikTok news: I know correlation isn't causation, but I do wonder if my teenager's recent impatience w 1/2 hour well-written comedies, which he once loved, can be attributed to this bite-sized delivery system. Anyone experiencing/noticing same? I could be way off...

Having covered Yale in 2015, when the social justice-coded position was that a polite email about Halloween costumes ruined the safe space students needed to learn, it's staggering to see the scenes like this from left-activists (not sure if they are students or not), and no…