For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

To the person who stole my antidepressants

I hope you’re happy now

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.

His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

Starting to pack up my office. 30 years teaching in higher ed. 3 more classes to teach. Oodles more student papers to respond to. Then that’s that!

since everyone's going on about the "backlash to #metoo" and the sexual assaulters and rapists in the rapist's cabinet,

i wrote about the trauma of being a rape survivor witnessing, once again, my country choose to gleefully embrace sexual abuse

inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

Lulu and Clover. Two old dogs who can’t walk too far anymore, but love a good deck sit.

Morning Pig

Learned a new word: Kakistocracy