“A spokesperson for the FBI added, ‘We believe that, like beloved cartoon characters such as Donald Duck and Homer Simpson, the shooter only owns one outfit.”

I am imagining an employee evaluation that praises an employee for their “lack of hallucinations”

Before I had thought of us as the Maxwell Caulfield of generations but this works better

From the article, a comparison of the change in auto makers’ market share in Europe from January-February 2024 to the same period in 2025. Note the precipitous drop of Tesla…

We Fremen have a saying: God created Punxsutawney to train the faithful. One must not go against the will of God.

Because my recent reading has been too uplifting, I guess, I decided to pick back up with J.-P. Sartre’s Paths to Freedom trilogy. I read The Age of Freedom and The Reprieve last year, so now it’s time for Troubled Sleep (UK title: Iron in the Soul).

I devoured Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Message (2024) in less than 24 hours, something of an achievement for me. Its centerpiece is, as widely discussed, a lengthy essay on Palestine.

The story of Piotr Smolar’s 2019 Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel unites the intensely personal story of Smolar’s family with the triumph of ethnopolitics in contemporary right-wing Israel.

(It is available in English but I read it in French)

Hanging up in our shower, submitted without comment

I say all this as a preface to one of the weirdest places I find quality remainders: the Dollar Tree store near my house. I regularly find literary fiction remainders there, for cheap! I got these yesterday!