Ooof.

#StarTrek #Sisko197

Viktor Orban's defeat at age 62 raises new questions about Joe Biden's age.

The real winner in the War with Iran? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at age 86 raises new questions about Joe Biden's age.

What could have caused the daily values for the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index to spike up in recent days, I wonder.

Random aside: the character of Steve Fleming in "The Thick of It" is meant to have been based in part on Peter Mandelson.

"I don't deserve this, to die like this! I was building a house!" "'Deserve''s got nothing to do with it."

For more on the removal/alteration of measures of sexual orientation and gender identity in federal data collections, see this recent webinar on the topic: youtu.be/YJF4BuhzZxM?... @williamsinstitute.bsky.social @icpsr.bsky.social

An Englishman stands up in a hall and announces, ”I was born an Englishman, I have lived an Englishman and I shall die an Englishman.” At which point a Scotsman shouts, “Dear God, man, have ye no ambition?”

As an endowed chair.

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Have these data been published yet? I'm not seeing them at the NaNDA site, and the DOI in the post points to the data on essential businessness by tract/ZCTA that were recently published.

Mandelson was even telling Epstein to encourage Jamie Dimon to threaten the UK government over plans to tax bankers' bonuses, while Mandelson was the Business Secretary in the UK government.

Is there a need? No. Would the explanation be entertaining and/or informative for a lot of folks, even those familiar with Mandelson? Yes. So go for it! Fire both barrels.

Police on scene of incident at Emory Point near CDC in Atlanta Several police officers have responded to Emory Point across from the Centers for Prevention and Disease Control in Atlanta.

Starting to get some local news stories, but not much detail so far: www.fox5atlanta.com/news/police-...

Brooks' most inspired column in years.

Without Jones, there's no "Black Dog" or "The Ocean" or "No Quarter." Or those string arrangements for "The Rain Song" and "Kashmir." Or those great chord changes in "Since I've Been Loving You." Take him away and you'd still have a good band, but not a great one.

Jones talking about how he got into arranging - he'd never done it before, but his dad always told him to never turn down work - made me laugh out loud.

Jones has made that point for years, but the film is very good at explaining what he means by laying out the different backgrounds and experiences and talents the 4 of them brought to the table and how they complemented each other and made the whole greater than the sum of the parts.

Any room for PKD here?

A rare defeat for Sir Humphrey Appleby.

Not at all.

I was at @icpsr.bsky.social earlier checking for new releases and saw several new additions to DataLumos that were from yesterday's hackathon put together by the @datarescueproject.org and @rdapassociation.bsky.social folks. Not the worst thing to see at the start of a work day. ☺️

Cuomo hired me to say Mamdani's people beat me up, T.

Brooks' next column, which will be written between glasses of whiskey during a layover at EWR.

Ooof. Ouch.

Oasis discography - Wikipedia

So I looked up their album sales at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_d..., and you've got a very good point. The sales of their 1st 3 albums in the U.S. were nothing to sneeze at, even if they never had anything like the pop-culture status in the U.S. that they had in the UK.

Miki Berenyi: ‘The claim that Britpop celebrated sassy women in bands was a veneer’ In this extract from the former Lush singer’s memoir, she recalls how Britpop sanded the edges off a thriving UK music scene and enshrined a culture of nasty, relentless sexualisation

www.theguardian.com/music/2022/s... - Miki Berenyi's autobiography has at least one unflattering anecdote about Liam and his attitudes (at the time, anyway) towards women.