Absolutely correct, and this should have more stars.

Too far from Daddy Dearest...

Not mention the fact that there is no current US ambassador to South Korea, because the guy they announced, vetted and cleared [widely respected on all sides] dared to opine that threatening North Korea was not helpful.

Trump, on new North Korea sanctions announced this afternoon:

(edit: wrong thread)

[Squirmiest joke I know: “Say what you want about Hitler, but he did kill Hitler.”]

Today’s cartoon is Mogg-nificent...

https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-new-york-times-contrarian.html

[Darling! You’re even age appropriate! (internet smooches)]

Whippersnapper.

Bob Mould: Black Sheets of Rain. After a couple of weeks, one can move up to Workbook.

Nice. Those were the days....

In “The Garage,” upstairs, by the Newbury Comics? Or Underground Comics by the old Tower Records?

As far as I know... The Reys called Cambridge home, and were happy to let Wordsworth [the bookstore] use the Curious George name for the kids’ books outpost... The original Wordsworth main store shut down years ago, though.

Third floor window, middle of Harvard Sq: the ‘Car Talk’ offices:

Of course he does not say that [current occupant of the White House] himself did not reimburse him. Not one of them is as clever as they imagine themselves to be.

So, the White House is ‘bleeding out their whatever?’

(“Shire reeve” is, I believe, the accepted etymology.)

Whoah.

No. As the article writer pointed out, the alphabet is not phonetic. It’s not even the “English alphabet.” We use Roman letters. The map is not the place. The alphabet is not the language.