For ”repercussions,“ please read “repercushions.”

Damn you autocorrect.

I am in favor of establishing the Miata as a new SI unit.

She had all the chops.

Yup.

I had the good fortune of having Ta-Nehisi as a colleague for a couple of years. I can attest that he was extremely good at critiquing power.

Not to mention that Kelly let slip that Epstein seemed to prefer 15 y.o.'s who passed for younger, a claim that makes everything, already terrible, that much worse.

Ha!

I cook picanha more often than tri tip (I kind of interchange the two cuts in my mind, though I know they aren't the same), and I usually coat a whole piranha in a salt and cumin rub and serve the chimichurri alongside. I'll have to roasting it with the sauce on board.

Not to mention Civil Engineers and Furniture Stripping (NSFW for JDV).

Very nicely done.

2/ He's not an original or acute thinker. He has no particular expertise that dives deeper under the surface than any ordinarily clever newspaper/upper-middle-brow magazine reader possesses. He is solipsistic to an extent that recalls this classic NYNEX ad.

Why do they bother with him?

I've written for The Atlantic in the past and hope to do so again My editors there have been excellent and I want to reach their audience.

But the apparent respect the masthead has for TCW is beyond me, and makes me wonder what has happened to their judgment. 1/

Thank you for this correction.

I'm sure you understood the distinction I was drawing between very rich and buy-a-country rich, and I cannot tell you how sorry I am that the word choice used to make that point was unsatisfactory to you.