Pretty sure she would be horrified and motivated to take a hatchet to it, but you know that

Carrie Nation Restaurant and Cocktail Club Choose from a sprawling selection of food menus, crafted to complement the spirit of the atmosphere and a meticulously poured cocktail. After dinner make your way to the red velvet curtain and find yo...

FYI www.carrienationcocktailclub bar in Boston named Carrie Nation up by the State House. @jodyavirgan.com @pastpunditry.bsky.social @kcarterjackson.bsky.social @thisdaypod.com

My Brookline MA brag question - does your city or town have a train line that runs under a High School building?

The Hasmoneans: Jewish dynasty that gave us Hanukkah is a symbol of murder, not heroism Israelis Glorify the Hasmoneans for Purifying the Temple and Liberating Jerusalem, but They Were Actually a Bloodthirsty Clan Whose Members Turned on Each Other. The Romans Put Them Out of Everybody's...

An uncomfortable truth we avoid- one of the reasons to not use Hanukkah as a Christmas substitute is that the heroes of that story were murderous tyrannical schmucks
www.haaretz.com/jewish/holid...

Life moves quickly these days

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens PROVIDENCE, RI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Rhode Island in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where t...

theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

Killer Whales Find an ‘Unlikely Friend’ in Dolphins

I don't know what "the dolphins lead the orcas to salmon so they can eat scraps when the orcas sloppily eat the salmon" is a metaphor for, but it is a metaphor for something www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/s...

Just went to craft fair in a church where they were using the sanctuary for sales space, I think they got the idea from research done by Pew.

Defying generational stereotypes by making and having avocado toast

@amtrak.com NextGen Acela going through the section of RI that has long run of new tracks in straight-ish line and trains can go the fastest. Maxed out at 161. Not world record of course or up to European, Japanese or Chinese standards but pretty good for the US

"If a man were
porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the
key" Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3

@dahlialithwick.bsky.social hey did you see Ari Peskoe from Harvard's amicus about FERC and Humphrey's Executor? He would make a great guest on the podcast

TRS-80 Model 100 - Wikipedia

Working from my phone reminds me of the first great tool for remote road warrior electronic work.
IFYKYK, in this case it is more IFYAOYK (you will figure it out) - put 4 AA batteries, a cassette drive & a phone coupler in your bag and you were set for travel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_...

Obviously

Why can't we get players like that?

Toronto (aka polite Chicago or clean NYC) unexpectedly loses the World Series

Remember that the generally excellent TTC (Toronto Transit) service ends at 2 am

He never could get out of the way

True Red Sox fan take would be: oh yeah I had forgotten why I didn't like Kike Hernandez. Showboat.

Yeah yesterday @milkepescs.bsky.social was agreeing w/Iowa journo Art Cullen on his podcast that Ds need to stop emphasizing transgender & related issues "like they did in the last election" -Delusional. National Ds were (for better or worse) desperately running away from those issues in 2024

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

‘Car Talk’ legend Tom Magliozzi was more of a train guy than a car guy - The Boston Globe

After Tom from Car Talk died I wrote this piece that I think implicitly makes the case pro & con on him being President ‘Car Talk’ legend Tom Magliozzi was more of a train guy than a car guy - The Boston Globe share.google/E7ybH4bt35hv...

Zabar's coffee mug

Farewell to Saul Zabar, may his memory be a blessing

Moldova’s Pivotal Election Projected to End in Victory for Pro-Europeans

Nice to get good news - in this case from Moldova www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

Mysterious Antifa gourds have appeared on the streets of Portland. #pdx #portland

Has the countdown clock on outbound side of Brookline Village @mbta.com station been hacked?

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I wonder if @tracyalloway.bsky.social got it in two

@ologies.bsky.social - how about deep dive into the history of climate science?

Significant - and almost 200 years ago Eunice Foote published a note that was one of the earliest pieces of foundational science in this area. Amazingly she is still celebrated on a US government website!
www.climate.gov/news-feature...

Hell of a coincidence you just ran into each other on the street in Brooklyn!