The outrageous mistreatment of Jimmy Kimmel has today taught me a new word: the verb "jawboning", which seems to be a form of the rhetorical *ad baculum* trick performed by one with the actual power to make good the threat. IOW, extortion.

H/T @jenmercieca.bsky.social, whom everyone should follow.

Literary Historians have just discovered a lost passage from Pastor Martin Niemöller's "First They Came":

"First they came for the late night talk show hosts ..."

This passage from a profile the late great Martin Amis wrote some time ago hit me hard when I first read it, and has stuck with me ever since:

They're the same picture:

Your post reminded me of this John Maynard Keynes quote (one of several iterations):

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

He's got a lot of good quotes, which I'm going to spend some time mulling over today, including this one:

Here in Canada, we've got a Federal election tomorrow. Wish us luck.

Me, I'm voting for this guy👇

In Canada, they sell fish wings. They frighten me more than a little.

Garbage takes like this one is why I don't subscribe to the Washington Post any more. If you don't call evil people doing evil things evil, you're complicit in that evil.

PS. America isn't a functioning democracy as of Monday because the evil people are running the country unconstrained.

Here's the Sartre quote we've got to keep posting until people get it.

Wikipedia has been updated to point out that Elon Musk did not expressly deny making the Nazi salute.

This is good news. I miss Peter Straub, but at least I have his books.

In not unrelated news, @stephenking.bsky.social said on Threads that he's working on Talisman 3.

How can you post the punchline without first posting the setup?

When I was a kid in Ontario, Canada back in the 60s and 70s, we used to have a soft drink called Tahiti Treat [Tahitian Treat in the US, the internet tells me]. I wonder if there's any connection regarding the flavour profile or origin.

I don't know what's with the Corn Chex🤭

Yes. Yes it is. Ivanka too. And he's single now.