I was able to leave a message at Padilla's San Francisco office (415-981-9369).

FWIW, I was able to get through and leave a message at Padilla's San Francisco office (415-981-9369).

It honestly seems bonkers to me that people are allowed to deduct any of their gambling losses, which are essentially money spent on entertainment rather than investment in a productive enterprise. It's like saying that money spent on ziplining or Eras Tour tickets should be tax deductible.

The real Dark Academia is getting ghosted after applying for a 4/4 job at the East North Dakota School of Applied Football.

Likewise, the Julia Roberts character in AFTER THE HUNT is up for tenure, which is not absolutely impossible for a 58-year-old, but seems like an odd choice when you could just make her the grande dame of the department.

Agree with the general point, but Coleridge did make Kublai Khan's pleasure dome sound pretty awesome.

No, this has just been the experience going through regular security.

I think it's a very cynical attempt to counter right-wing narratives that present California as socially dysfunctional and hyper-liberal. Newsom is sacrificing principle and good governance in the present, for the sake of talking points that he hopes will play well in a 2028 debate or campaign ad.

Greek comedy also seems like a more natural fit for the discussion, but also the world doesn't need those particular takes on Lysistrata.

The phrasing is confusing, but I think he's saying that because Antigone is presented as the hero of the play, he had not previously considered that she could be woke/bad.

(This is also specific to domestic flights, I haven't tried to opt out of the cameras when passing through immigration, and assume that would be much more difficult.)

Plenty of caveats apply - I have privilege along various axes that make it easier to opt out, and the airports were mostly in blue states. But for others who are uncomfortable with increasing levels of electronic surveillance, it's worth knowing that airport face scans aren't yet mandatory.

(To be clear, the comedy is deliberate; Emily Brontë knew exactly what she was doing when she wrote passages like this.)

Huge chunks of the novel are basically Cold Comfort Farm on the moors.

It's pretty vague, but Frankenstein mentions getting "bones from charnel-houses" and collecting materials from "the dissecting room and the slaughter-house" when making the original monster.