Boring topic, but not getting your home insurance renewed can be pretty exciting, I guess. (Assuming you have a house or a mortgage.)
CNN: Cold pizza in a glass? The rise of savory cocktails
https://www.cnn.com/travel/global-rise-savory-cocktails/index.html
Pot liquor and gin, I’m tellin’ ya. I was here first.
On Pauli Murray
End of a good thread on Pauli Murray, transgender Black legal scholar and Episcopal minister. Lots of links: https://mastodon.social/@Deglassco/110589151339711270
U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago
Well… at least it was quick for the 19-year-old.
Woman who fed starving neighbors shares heartbreaking video after vandals poison her garden with salt: ‘You won’t stop me’
https://news.yahoo.com/woman-fed-starving-neighbors-shares-101500816.html
This sort of thing is just evil, straight out. Someone is going to be facing God when they die.
“Let’s see, you salted land to keep hungry people from eating….”
An Alternative to Increasingly Elusive Bottles of Chartreuse – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/dining/food-news.html
Maybe someday.
The Best Place to Drink Is the Emptiest Bar in the City
A lovely essay:
《I wave my hand, and then you see me. Tell me what you’re thinking about these days, and what’s going as planned, and what worries you. Let’s spend an hour reassuring each other. Let’s order another. Give up the idea that the party is someplace else for now. Return, for as long as you like, to the quiet place inside yourself that is always arriving, always traveling.》
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/magazine/hotel-bars.html?unlocked_article_code=BGsgfJTckGmhagDYulLTYCeJCY6blHaM0qkjkoATNS9yIk8MDNqA1pGeDdR6RcmqEya402guucSlw50TAdb0kQhJZM-JiBQ9tj4AORbVhY2-dXpaYom0TD2x0GTF-AvxDTFMgRLaVC3rXKxp3K6WXMjsnSA2-xprKn2OXQZyhcBQrTs1vxl569nwp3-VlaR7rP6glzgCq8So0kt_E294BNd5uDIxyGOiv0-8C4C873H-qJWVRl60PxMZoQLN15_aErbYsh8Z8YlkYc3XyI-mJaNZuByldj-Krz6bcUz0UqQpqwBGatCjvtlIeSA0BfRI7SZ9QMg&smid=url-share
(Gift link.)
Vox.com: Trump went on Fox News to defend himself. It didn’t go well.
https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/6/20/23767291/trump-bret-baier-fox-news-indictment-documents
《Trump’s statements, many of which were meandering and difficult to follow….》
Oh, right, another possible outcome other than death or jail: dementia.
Third Party Poopers
SUCH a great article. 🙂 Courtesy of https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/110577438745872478
«Sizing up the potential third party candidates for 2024, I detect no Teddy Roosevelts, only an uninspired gaggle of crackpots, chaos agents, and grifters.»
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/third-party-poopers
Chamber of Secrets
On the Supreme Court:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/06/19/chamber-of-secrets/
Via https://zirk.us/@JamesGleick/110577470369104403
#readlater