The Rectification of Names

Press room of the Chicago Criminal Courts Building as depicted in the original Broadway staging (by George S. Kaufman) of Ben Hecht's an...

  Jordan writes in comments, in response to some material I won't repost here that I was saving for a sequel to the " Minions ...

  Matthew Broderick as Professor Harold Hill tries out The Think System . NY vs. Trump and his spawn and their businesses seems to me to ha...

  UPDATE AT BOTTOM Oklahoma senator James Lankford's speech at the Family Research Council's Pray Vote Stand Summit in Atlanta...

Mudslide blocking a road in Cayey, Puerto Rico, on Sunday. Photo by AP via Wisconsin Public Radio . Really interesting radio thing , on a st...

  Screenshot from El Paso Times . Thing that's not being mentioned now is that they were all Haitians, refugees from the 2...

That George Wallace–era prank Texas governor Greg Abbot has been playing and Florida governor Ron DeSantis has attempted to emulate rre...

One thing I really wish people would try to do in the discussion of the late Mrs. von Battenberg, as somebody was calling her, is leav...

In which the old Emperor shows more of a sense of shame than you'll ever ...

  A New Jersey Memory of 9/11 During  Another American Crisis Ignatian Solidarity Network blog post by   Jack Raslowsky   crediting David on...

Charleston Mercury , February 16, 1861. Mr. Bret Stephens was not available to comp...

I would think that since Penn. is a union-friendly state that would be a deal breaker but after years of anti-union propaganda...

  Whether it's violating email best practices on the advice of General Colin Powell or stealing and hiding 11,000 hard co...

Drawing by Drew Sheneman , New Jersey Star-Ledger. OK, let's start with attorney Michael Ellis, b.1984, Dartmouth and Yale Law (wh...

  I guess this is Stephen Miller...  ("slowly but passionately" is classic Miller, with its literary sound unmatched by any actual...

  My Bike is Not Bent by Herschel Walker My bike is not bent so anyone can ride my bike like he seems...

This bit is about the Biden college debt forgiveness program,though it takes its time wandering over there: She's got an impress...

  Q to #RadioYerevan : Did President Biden raise taxes on the middles [sic] class during a recession? A: In principle, y...

  The Village Lawyer , by Pieter Breughel the Younger, 1624, Web Gallery of Art: , via Wikimedia Common. Emptywheel gives a pretty c...

Sorry to keep harping on this, but I can't seem to focus on anything else, and there are some dumb stories circulating becaus...