Marc Riboud Darjeeling, India, 1950′s

I'm multitasking while on a zoom conference and I just heard "decisioning" uttered, and now my whole fucking day is ruined

One of the great World Cup matches took place on June 11th 1975 at Edgbaston when West Indies beat Pakistan by one wicket after slipping to 203 for 9 chasing 267. Here Deryck Murray (61*) and Andy Roberts (24*) scramble the winnings run with two balls to spare

V. good from Madeline Grant on Rachel Reeves' spending review via Jim Clark

Why i love Peggy Noonan from the bottom of (what passes for) my heart. ~~~~~ America Is Losing Sight of Its Political Culture by Peggy Noonan wsj.com/opinion/americ… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full email below

Stinking idea ..

When you're in charge of naming Scottish lochs and it's 4:59pm

“If I might suggest, sir—it is, of course, merely a palliative—but it has often been found in times of despondency that the assumption of formal evening dress has a stimulating effect on the morale.” P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters Art: J.C. Leyendecker

When JACK NICHOLSON won a BAFTA for Chinatown, he accepted the award from the set of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. One of the great acceptance speeches.

I just wanna know what happened here.

“Guests were instructed to fill out a questionnaire before the wedding and were sent a spreadsheet listing the other guests and their LinkedIn profiles.” nytimes.com/2025/06/20/sty…

A busy Western Terrace at Headingley during a county match shortly before WW1

Probably the best reaction by anyone just learning about the 36-hour B-2 missions.

To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

25th June. In 1658, Aurangzeb incarcerated Shah Jahan in Agra fort and changed the course of Mughal rule. In 1975 Indira Gandhi had the President proclaim an emergency and irrevocably altered India's political future. And on this day in 1983, Kapil Dev and team ensured that

“We need a rebirth of gratitude for those who have cared for us, living and, mostly, dead. The high moments of our way of life are their gifts to us. We must remember them in our thoughts and in our prayers; and in our deeds.” William F. Buckley, Jr.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—June 28 1971—In an opinion by the jurisprudentially rudderless Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman concocts an ahistorical and highly malleable test for Establishment Clause violations. Under the Lemon test, a