I know you won't have any interest in what follows, which is just for me. I feel bad, though, so I thought you might enjoy this Roz Chast cartoon from the same issue of The New Yorker referenced below. (Click to enlarge.) Oh, and also the Dan Roe one below.by KenI know there are important things happening in the world which demand comment from me, but they'll just have to wait another day (or possibly more).
Seriously, "Minister Mike" Hucksterbee imagines himself as a custodian of the teachings of "the moral leader of our nation," as he's described aptly in the clip above, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.? Friggin' unbelievable.by KenI can't be the only one who has been taken aback by the widespread frenzy with which race-baiting whitefolk have responded to the Black Lives Matter phenomenon.
Bernie talks about campaign finance, from a 37-minute interview with Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein.by KenIt was a media experiment of sorts. "Days before Donald Trump helped draw twenty-four million viewers to Fox for the first Republican Presidential primary debate," Daniel Wenger begins a "Talk of the Town" piece, "Enter Sandman" (for subscribers only, I'm guessing), in the August 24 New Yorker,
In Havana:In Washington, D.C.:by KenA flag-raising there, a flag-raising here, and the U.S. and Cuba have restored diplomatic relations. In Havana we hear Secretary of State Kerry, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Cuba since the Roosevelt administration, saying sensibly:
by KenPossibly this won't be of interest to you country-livers and fitness fanatics, though wise people know that they can always learn something from, you know, everything. And many of the rest of us would like at least to make a gesture toward a fitter lifestyle, and where better to start than with a nature walk?
No, you can't click on anything here; it's just a screen grab. If you want to watch the Exclusive New Mad Men Trailer Featuring Alabama Shakes, go here.by KenSo I got the an e-mail yesterday.
Illustration by Gary Taxaliby KenFor the benefit of those to whom it has never occurred that someday they may look back nostalgically on that cheeseburger at a diner on 57th Street that cost $24.95 as, you know, a cheeseburger at a diner on 57th Street that cost $24.95, I present the first paragraph of Ian Frazier's "Shouts and Murmurs" piece, "
Somebody clearly didn't wish Boris Nemtsov well."During the first decade of Putin’s rule, the Kremlin depicted its opponents as freaks or idiots, but now they are portrayed as outright enemies of their country."-- Joshua Yaffa, in a newyorker.com post,"Assassination in Moscow"by KenOf course the murder of Boris Nemtsov not far from the Kremlin could have been a coincidence.
