Café Renard, Paris, ca. 1900. via
Café Renard, Paris, ca. 1900. via
On Reddit: “My great-grandfather and me. May 1979. He was 82, I was 2-½ months old.” via
1970s kitchen via
1966 ad for Ford Shelby Mustang GT350. via
“All aboard for a nickel”, Life Savers Candy, 1945 via
1963 - Patrick Sullivan’s Bar, unknown location in Ireland via
New York City, circa 1900: Jewish market on the East Side. via
The boy running the scoreboard at Griffith Stadium, peeping out through a slot during a Boston/Washington game. (Washington D.C./July 1956/Hank Walker, photographer) via
Man, It’s Boss! Monogram’s Red Baron model kit, the Groovy Custom Show Rod Now at Your Favorite Store! (1968) via
Hula hoop ad, 1963 via
I am continuing to fiddle with handwriting recognition (aka Scribble) on the iPad. I’m getting better at it but I don’t know if it will ever replace the onscreen keyboard.
I read multiple reviews that say Scribble is amazing even with the reviewers’ awful handwriting. My awful handwriting is Scribble’s Waterloo.
Orwell struggled with anti-Semitism — others’ and his own.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: “Trump’s decisions to politicize voting and wearing masks means that his base have been convinced not to vote and to commit mass suicide.” Also, Trump is paying grifters millions for masks.
Americans saw the story they wanted to see. Some saw respected professionals fearing for their safety, reasonably exercising their Second Amendment rights to defend their home from violent trespassers. Others saw an overwrought, older affluent couple, recklessly pointing their weapons and asserting their white privilege.
The Republicans Who Want to Destroy Trump
The Lincoln Project is headed by people who are just now realizing that the Republican Party has been toxic since before Trump.
The father, who kept a loaded gun unsecured in a house with children, seems like the criminal here, not a boy too young to understand what he was doing.
Your mask feels uncomfortable? Get over it. As a surgeon, I know how vital they are.
The World Is Drinking Less Coffee While Office Workers Stay Home. More for me!
not all heroes wear capes. pic.twitter.com/KEG2P2Qbz2
— Love Yo Self ✨ (@MichellCClark) July 11, 2020
How old is your dog? New equation shows how to calculate its age in human years
Dogs age quickly their first years, more slowly later.
Minnie is 62.
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David Frumat the Atlantic, about Roger Stone: The Most Conspicuous Scandal in American History.
Trump and his cronies commit their treasonous crimes in plain sight, and that helps them get away with it.
David Gerrold’s 1983 novel “A Matter for Men” features the Earth facing a biological menace which many people believe is a hoax, and the US in decline but still powerful and threatening.
Oh, that old-time science fiction! So unrealistic!
Hello, again, Lake Murray. 📷
This may sound like Trump’s wackiest conspiracy theory. But it’s actually true. Republicans have been peddling insane conspiracy theories for decades, and now it is coming back to destroy them, as rank-and-file Republicans are refusing to vote using mail in ballots or to take precautions to protect themselves against coronavirus.