Because I’m a stickler: Chapamn is the first Black woman to have a SOLO #1 slot on the Country charts. Other Black women have had #1 songs on the Country charts, but always co-writing credits as part of a duo or more writing partners:

QUICK!!! Everybody back so we can vote against the broad wishes of our constituencies!!!!

‘My wife, Morgan Fairchild(-ish), whom I’ve seen naked.’

Why you gotta insult the toad like that?

Is she 15? She looks younger to me, more like 12 or 13.

more likely “AND that they wish...”

Immediately after the above photo was taken, he hooked his thumb, pointing at the dude to his left, and said ‘who farted?’ thinking that would deflect attention from himself.

My father is the administrator of a US-based 501(c)3 charity that enables US-based English ex-pats to donate to their alma maters and certain other UK-based charities. About a decade or so ago, one such ex-pat wanted to donate to The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering. There was a problem with the funds transfer, so…

‘...45* added that he hadn’t faced an indictment (like this) in more than 50 years of being a “business-man”’.

I went to Secondary School in Ireland after Public Primary & Middle school in NYC, so uniforms were a bit of a culture shock. It was a Quaker school. We were the only school in the city that had a ‘winter’ uniform for girls: corduroy trousers instead of the skirt (regular uniform) &/or kilt (dress/Sunday uniform) we…

Every time people mention shit like this:

Which ‘her’?  I’d go with both.

So, under one of the Jez Recs columns (last week, I think) I recommended A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. And I’m reupping that recommendation here.
It’s part memoir-part appreciation of the poem Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (Lament for Art O Leary), written* in 1773 by O Leary’s widow Eibhlín Dubh Ní…

Same. NYer here, in the construction industry. A client of mine (marble supplier) who contracted with him wanted to take a jackhammer (I think he said a jackhammer) into the lobby of Trump Tower to break all of it up b/c of lack of payment. He didn’t (his wife and sister had him calmed down).

Frankly, when he was on the plane to NYC to be arraigned the first time I was surprised it didn’t make a quick right hand turn over to Moscow.  Same for when he flew down to Miami last week.

Agreed. On all points. Duddy is such a nice guy (and the nephew of the John ‘Jackie’ Duddy who was killed on Bloody Sunday ’72; also a boxer).

There’s a professional boxer from Ireland named John Duddy; years back, from time to time, he’d hang out at my local pub in Queens (he & his wife lived nearby). I recall a couple of times some drunken eejit would try to goad him into throwing a punch. John would keep his cool and never give into the stupidity, no…

I remember listening to Krista Tippett talking about why she’s not Southern Baptist (she’s just plain old Baptist) and it was because she couldn’t throw her lot in with the group that all those many decades back wanted to maintain slavery.

Recommendation: A Ghost in the Throat, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa. It’s part memoir, part appreciation piece about a poem. The poem is from 1773, it’s called Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire (the Lament for Art O’Leary) which was written by Uí Laoghaire’s widow Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill. Brilliant book. Ní Ghríofa is a poet;…

The indictment’s been unsealed. He’s got on co-conspirator: Walt Nauta.