As my cynical soul watches a blue tsunami, it cannot hide a Judy-Dench smirk as the necromongers falter...

These paragraphs changed how I think about soup. 'Soup is simple. Identify your ingredient, cook it perfectly, change the consistency.' Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook.

The National Archives Store--a retail shop of the National Archive Foundation, under NARA--is paying to advertise the Constitution of the **Confederate States of America**. We fought a civil war over these issues. Why *pay* to promote hate? (Also Meta won't let me report it: their form craps out).

How red light sabres are made: screenrant.com/star-wars-re.... Someone at the White House needs remedial education on Star Wars lore.

How did we fall into the Dr. Strangelove timeline?

The failure to thank the US irks me on many levels. But Usyk's WBC Belt is sitting on the coffee table in the Oval. Zelenskyy had just presented it as a gift from Ukraine to Trump. It sits right in front of the new giant gilded mirror on the Oval's concealed door.

The American Bar Association on the rule of law:
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

A little escape in the foreground of a pile of cheese for fettuccini Alfredo.

We all must speak out lest we start reading from the middle of Martin Niemöller's poem, "First they came for...."

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

Kundera, Book of Laughter and Forgetting. As we look at the 404 pages across US federal agencies, let's remember where this technique came from...