The Rectification of Names

  Saw a Bluesky post yesterday morning alleging that the "exchange of fire" at the Washington Hilton Saturday night between ...

Seeing a lot of headshaking over the President's Easter message,  which gives up the traditional "Happy Easter, even to the haters ...

Portrait of a bullet by Doug Mills, The New York Times, via Reddit . ...

Graphic by Thomas Bordeaux and Rosa de Acosta,  CNN , based on satellite imagery from March 3, showing extensive damage to buildings at the ...

That was pretty interesting, rhetorically speaking, from Secretary of War (as you know, the title is his idea, not mine) Hegseth in yester...

  So we may be on the brink of fighting our second war with Iran in eight months. Or maybe not, who can say? "We'll s...

  The worst of the worst, really? I was gone for a couple of weeks, and when I got back the whole place had gone nuts. The president s...

Hanoi Train Street (Trần Phú), cutting through the city's Vieux Quartier, is neither on the wrong nor the right side of the tracks, but ...

  My photo, not the shop I've been going to since COVID inflation made haircuts equally unaffordable everywhere, but mine is also called...

One of the meanings of Italian "batocchio": The thing you use to whack your Tibetan therapeutic singing bowl, in black chamois and...

Not finding a credit for this widespread image. Can't reach the T-shirt company, Picturestees,...

  21st congressional district, New York, via Wikipedia , Some gossip, mostly from a caller from New York's 21st congressional district, ...

For a while yesterday, it seemed that the Kennedy Center's new name was ...

  Pentheus torn by Maenads, in a fresco in the Casa dei Vettii, Pompeii, v...

  Photo  from the wonderful collection "Paradise Lost" by Adriana Loureiro Fernandez (@adriana.loureiro on Instagram), an ongoing ...

  So Trump responded to Bloomberg's Catherine Lucey aboard Air Force I last week  after she asked him why , if there is nothing that inc...

  Peter Thiel Dreams of Empire,  Hanna Barakat + AIxDESIGN & Archival Images of AI / via Dave Karpf , Tech Policy Press, January 2025. ...

  "Socialism in Milwaukee": Drawing from The Milwaukee Independent , probably ca. 1910-12, when the city had its first Socialist m...

 Happy Election Day! I don't feel like I need to give you a lot of advice about the candidates in New York City, but I thought it might ...

Memorial tablet in Berlin, at the house where Fraenkel lived before his forced emigration in 1938, via Wikimedia Commons .  Two or three...