My monthly crossword for September is LIVE: crosshare.org/crosswords/SJA… We've got some NYT Thursday-style trickery and wordplay on deck with the theme: "What the Tech?"

CONSEQUENCE I hope his wife takes him back "with arms wide open"

debating Donald Trump in a "who's less reprehensible in the eyes of the average American" competition should be an open breakaway on an empty net and yet I'm just watching Kamala Harris spin in circles going "actually fracking is Good". grim to watch.

And if I start to lose the debate, I'LL GO ON MY PHONE

This definitely feels like watching the last 15 minutes of a biopic that Trent Reznor scored full of unsettling zither chords and a rising tinnitus-like ringing

CNN just misidentified Taylor Swift's cat Benjamin Button by calling it Olivia Benson, which is a similar but different cat. Daniel Dale please condemn this fake news coming from within your own network.

personally I'm not sure about an American Vice President who makes season 13 Simpsons references. Stick to seasons 2-10 and some of 11, as the Founding Fathers would have wanted

All things considered I gotta call today's timing a coup for Dave Grohl's publicist

Very cool statement from President Biden!

Happy 7th(!) anniversary to the day Ted Cruz spent his 9/11 watching stepmom porn