The Rectification of Names

  Image via preen.ph . And it's back to no, according to yesterday's interview with West Virginia MetroNews Radio. Jennifer Ps...

  Johnson at Eton, front and center as usual, in one of a number of pictures where he seems to be trying on a Mussolini face. Photo via The...

  Mooncakes, pastry stuffed with a sweet filling (these are lotus paste) a...

To be clear the ICE rule has existed for a while, and it had a legit purpose, to stop exploitation of foreign students by frau...

Via Medium, and a nice post by William Sonn with an alternative answer to "Which Roman emperor does Trump resemble most?"—Caracal...

Thanks for the shoutout , Tengrain! NewYork, uncredited stock photo via Financial Times . A rather rich person, owner of a couple of L...

Kaiser Wilhelm II, via Encyclopedia Brittanica . Well, well, who could have imagined something like this? WASHINGTON — When Presiden...

Yesterday, here in Trumplandia, the Emperor got his feelings wounded in a telephone conversation with a person in space, one of the two ast...

Exchange in the  comments  on yesterday's post: Me: He doesn't think he can get out of it with a Sharpie, he thinks he can ge...

Feral Britain. Forest of Dean, 2008, photo by David Slater/Alamy via Times Literary Supplement . Stephen Castle and Ellen Barry in the...

Dinesh D'Souza's response to the terror attacks on Muslim Friday prayers in Christchurch: Even though it's true and his st...

Peter Hall's adaptation of  Animal Farm  in a production by the English touring company Paper Zoo , 2008. If you want to know h...

Via obviously psychopathic expert guy . I felt we got somewhere interesting in the following: It's the psychopathy. He's not...

Mainstream media are concerned, inevitably, by the eccentricities of President Trump's call-in to the Fox & Friends show yester...

Drawing by John Darkow, 1./28/16, via George H.'s Pinterest . At the end of an anxious post Friday, Digby wrote: Trump is gett...

You'll be reading sounder versions of this all weekend, no doubt, but I wanted to organize and shovel out some initial reactions. ...

A conservative mark = wrecked a lot of things and hurt a lot of people. @nytimes https://t.co/WwxZMzCenD — Lance Mannion (@LanceMannion...

Image via Buddy "L" Trucks . So some of us thought it was hilarious when Trump, in Japan, asked Japanese car makers to start...

Michael Sgan-Cohen, "Leviathan" (1983), Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem, from Wikimedia Commons . Former New York Times ...

Or if you can, there could be serious money in it. François Truffaut, via Cinémathèque Française . Narratology isn't admissibl...