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Probationary employees at the Department of Education are getting the following email: “The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.”
Hmm … who else should get such a letter?
Hmm … who else should get such a letter?
February 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Probationary employees at the Department of Education are getting the following email: “The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.”
Hmm … who else should get such a letter?
Hmm … who else should get such a letter?
To be fair, the 72-year-old Belichick could pass for 62 and his 24-year-old girlfriend could pass for 42, so the age gap isn’t THAT much.
February 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
To be fair, the 72-year-old Belichick could pass for 62 and his 24-year-old girlfriend could pass for 42, so the age gap isn’t THAT much.
Bluesky … what’s with this ad? Do you NOT want people of a certain age to be here?
February 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Bluesky … what’s with this ad? Do you NOT want people of a certain age to be here?
What’s full of hot air, likes to call attention to itself, is an awkward size, and will be floating around the INSIDE of the New Orleans Superdome on Sunday? (No … it’s not the Goodyear blimp.)
February 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What’s full of hot air, likes to call attention to itself, is an awkward size, and will be floating around the INSIDE of the New Orleans Superdome on Sunday? (No … it’s not the Goodyear blimp.)
Wait until she discovers I’ve never watched an episode of “Friends.”
February 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Wait until she discovers I’ve never watched an episode of “Friends.”
Trump is attending the Super Bowl. My interest in watching it has dropped to zero … and it would be great if this could be the least watched Super Bowl ever.
February 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Trump is attending the Super Bowl. My interest in watching it has dropped to zero … and it would be great if this could be the least watched Super Bowl ever.
The Frugal Gourmet
Jeff Smith and the memory of 1980s cooking shows
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Founding Fathers were smart though I’m sure they didn’t fathom needing something in the Constitution barring an emigrant billionaire, whose billions come from government contracts, from accessing government databases without having to run for office or be approved by a congressional committee.
February 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Founding Fathers were smart though I’m sure they didn’t fathom needing something in the Constitution barring an emigrant billionaire, whose billions come from government contracts, from accessing government databases without having to run for office or be approved by a congressional committee.
Part 1:
I just sent a variation of this note to eight Target company executives (one guy, the CEO and seven women executive vice presidents). The note to the CEO was worded somewhat differently but all the women got something like this:
I just sent a variation of this note to eight Target company executives (one guy, the CEO and seven women executive vice presidents). The note to the CEO was worded somewhat differently but all the women got something like this:
January 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Part 1:
I just sent a variation of this note to eight Target company executives (one guy, the CEO and seven women executive vice presidents). The note to the CEO was worded somewhat differently but all the women got something like this:
I just sent a variation of this note to eight Target company executives (one guy, the CEO and seven women executive vice presidents). The note to the CEO was worded somewhat differently but all the women got something like this:
So I watched a few clips of RFK Jr.’s testimony today. He sounds just like Katherine Hepburn in “Rooster Cogburn” if she was playing both lead parts.
January 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
So I watched a few clips of RFK Jr.’s testimony today. He sounds just like Katherine Hepburn in “Rooster Cogburn” if she was playing both lead parts.
The Red Scare of the early and middle 20th century is being replaced by the Brown Skin and DEI Scare of the Trump era.
January 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Red Scare of the early and middle 20th century is being replaced by the Brown Skin and DEI Scare of the Trump era.
I’ve discovered since the new year that my social media writing is now spread even thinner … or broader … depending on your perspective. I write on Facebook, Bluesky, Substack, Threads, and Instagram. And I post the same thing in multiple places, because I’ve lost sense of where people are looking.
January 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I’ve discovered since the new year that my social media writing is now spread even thinner … or broader … depending on your perspective. I write on Facebook, Bluesky, Substack, Threads, and Instagram. And I post the same thing in multiple places, because I’ve lost sense of where people are looking.
Interesting thesis about evolution of media. For centuries, the production of news was controlled by a few but each technological innovation expanded the number of people who could access news.
open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
The Democratization of Information Production is Killing Democracy
The way we receive information about our world is unlike any previous generations of humanity. Paradoxically, it's destroying democracy—and Trump's America is the main canary in the coal mine.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Interesting thesis about evolution of media. For centuries, the production of news was controlled by a few but each technological innovation expanded the number of people who could access news.
open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
open.substack.com/pub/briankla...
So Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan have redone, shot for shot, the famous deli scene from “When Harry Met Sally” for a Hellman’s mayonnaise Super Bowl ad … and I immediately thought of what her throes of ecstasy would be like if there was Duke’s on her sandwich.
January 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan have redone, shot for shot, the famous deli scene from “When Harry Met Sally” for a Hellman’s mayonnaise Super Bowl ad … and I immediately thought of what her throes of ecstasy would be like if there was Duke’s on her sandwich.
My office is moving spaces and so there has been an office wide clean out going on for weeks. Today, several piles of business and management books appeared, free for the taking. The titles are like a random collection of words, at least one of which should be shocking or nonsensical.
January 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My office is moving spaces and so there has been an office wide clean out going on for weeks. Today, several piles of business and management books appeared, free for the taking. The titles are like a random collection of words, at least one of which should be shocking or nonsensical.
From a WSJ article about how the luxury home market in DC is booming because people want to be near Trump. “There are a lot of folks who are coming to Washington … that want to be close to the sun. They make 2016 look like amuse-bouche for the main entree, which is the moment in time right now.”
January 29, 2025 at 3:34 AM
From a WSJ article about how the luxury home market in DC is booming because people want to be near Trump. “There are a lot of folks who are coming to Washington … that want to be close to the sun. They make 2016 look like amuse-bouche for the main entree, which is the moment in time right now.”
Questlove cleverly distilled 50 years of SNL music performances into about 7 minutes.
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Official Preview
YouTube video by SNL Fanatic
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January 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Questlove cleverly distilled 50 years of SNL music performances into about 7 minutes.
youtu.be/vDxYQd51Xuk?...
youtu.be/vDxYQd51Xuk?...
5:12 Central time twilight. Love the evening light coming back strong in late January.
January 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
5:12 Central time twilight. Love the evening light coming back strong in late January.
Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, famously said, “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
The Trump administration is taking this advice to heart .::..
The Trump administration is taking this advice to heart .::..
January 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, famously said, “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
The Trump administration is taking this advice to heart .::..
The Trump administration is taking this advice to heart .::..
I have a Substack also, where I’m picking one cookbook from my shelf every week and cooking from it and telling random stories that come to mind as I type.
open.substack.com/pub/ptchmm?r...
open.substack.com/pub/ptchmm?r...
Shelf to Table | Paul Clark | Substack
Each week I'm going to pick one cookbook from my shelf and prepare one recipe from it, and write about it here. Click to read Shelf to Table, by Paul Clark, a Substack publication. Launched 23 days ag...
open.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I have a Substack also, where I’m picking one cookbook from my shelf every week and cooking from it and telling random stories that come to mind as I type.
open.substack.com/pub/ptchmm?r...
open.substack.com/pub/ptchmm?r...
This administration is trying to trumpcate the number of brown-skinned and non-cisgendered people who can move about freely in American society.
January 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This administration is trying to trumpcate the number of brown-skinned and non-cisgendered people who can move about freely in American society.
January 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM