A thing I always do appreciate is when a news organization agrees to special, embarrassing accommodations for this guy, and then he blurts it out on live TV.

Talia Shire?

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Open an email to a friend. Describe to them as colloquially as possible the thing you’ve been trying to write, but can’t. (You do not have to send this email.)

According to this, Bush managed to hit that level in his lame-duck period.

bsky.app/profile/apoc...

He writes of a dismaying experience with his managers: "I asked why we keep using that word that many Hispanics hate—Latinx." Why indeed? It's true that many Latinos don't like this ungendered term, including some who work at NPR. That may be why NPR does not generally use the term. I did a search at npr.org for the previous 90 days. I found: 197 uses of Latino 201 uses of Latina And just nine uses of "Latinx," usually by a guest on NPR who certainly has the right to say it. Like Uri, I often have opinions about NPR's coverage. Sometimes I am right; and sometimes I check the easily searchable archives and discover I am wrong. I wish he'd done the same.

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Agreed! That’s why it’s a term usually used by academics who want a term to describe the larger group of people who’ve been arrested, are in jail, are in prison, and are out on bail or parole, without having to type that whole list out every time.

I think (a) activists and academics can sometimes use terms that sound weird to most people. I also think (b) mainstream Democrats and politicians have trouble communicating clearly in an appealing way. I think most efforts to claim that (a) and (b) are the same problem fall apart on the evidence.

“Latinx” isn’t actually used “all the time on NPR”. That was a claim put forward in an error-filled essay for the Free Press by a disgruntled employee. When one of his colleagues actually checked, this is what he found.

(Link: steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr... )

To the extent I’ve seen any effort to change language around prisons, it’s been to shift from “prisoner” or “inmate” to “people in prison” and there are debates around that, but I get why it’s easier when you’ve got presidential aspirations to just make up a guy to get mad at.

Deaths surged last year in KY prisons. One lawmaker wants to increase oversight Deaths in Kentucky prisons last year soared from 39 to 63. A Louisville lawmaker wants to establish a fatality review board.

Link:

amp.kentucky.com/news/politic...

“Justice involved population” isn’t widely used outside of academia, where it applies to more than just people in prison. But since Andy Beshear hates when euphemisms are used in this area, here’s something for him to work on back home in Kentucky, where deaths in his state prisons have spiked.

He's so indignant!

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I am catching up on "Peacemaker" and -- as @briancgrubb.bsky.social promised when it aired -- Tim Meadows is fantastic in it, but man, every single line reading in the scene that makes up the first minute or so of this video is spectacular.

Circling back to say I still think this is what should have happened.

I'm going to assume Dr. Robby gets into a motorcycle accident and wakes up with a worried Eriq LaSalle looking down at him.

To this day, I try and stay away from jokes about papal infallibility because whenever we’d pitch them for “This Week in God”, Stephen would nix them because that doctrine only applies when the Pope is speaking ex cathedra.

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

Congrats to Harvard’s future Bill Ackman Professor in Applied Wrongness.

“They spit in my mouth at the BAFTAs!”
“Gary Oldman?”
“No, the other one!”
“Olivia Colman!”
“YES!”

In the ninth episode of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, Craig Robinson refers to Daniel Radcliffe, to his face, as "this Elijah-Wood-looking-ass bitch." I am running out of new ways to recommend this show.

The muppets in the great muppet caper captioned “there it is. The fabulous baseball diamond.”

a+++ pedantic footnote

PEAK GONDELMAN

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.

apnews.com/article/pitt...

BIGFOOT! A New Musical | Official Site From The New York Times bestseller, Tony®-nominated playwright, and late night icon Amber Ruffin...The next big musical comedy is finally coming into focus...BIGFOOT!

Oh hey this is apparently closing in two weeks and tickets to it are now discounted and it’s really charming and silly and fun, if “charming and silly and fun” are your sort of thing.

I like that you’re slowly inventing the CBS show “Evil” from scratch.

A good thread from someone who’s seen Jared’s skills up close.

It's very funny that the other reference is Warren Buffett, a guy whose thriftiness was always remarked upon *because it was unusual*. Like... Larry Ellison owns a whole island, and has for quite a while! Richard Branson exists!

really good images of the model of NYC they made for the hudsucker proxy from an old issue of cinefex