This all reminds me of the time Croesus asked the Delphic oracle if he should attack Persia and she responded, "If Croesus crosses the Halys River, he will destroy a great empire."
Turned out to be Croesus’s.
good lord that was boring
My column on why the Fed is in trouble no matter who Trump puts at the top.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
President Trump, rickrolling the American people.
This is correct.
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Every year the National Opera broadcasts a performance on the big screen at Nationals Stadium. It's a lot of fun & maybe they should just take over that venue for all their performances. The baseball thing isn't going that well anyway.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...
Or here's a crazy thought. Maybe instead of relying on philanthropy we could collect taxes from rich people.
www.wsj.com/us-news/mich...
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
The president recently shared a photo of a White House bathroom that he had renovated by covering everything in marble. What Americans need is a president who is more focused on the cost of toilet paper. It’s up more than 3 percent so far this year.
What you really don't want is to replace the taxis with goats, or the hot dogs with camel meat.
1 and 4 sound awesome?
The Court is once again upholding Article VIII of the Constitution, which clearly states that the president is allowed to do whatever he wants except break the economy.
Live from New York:
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
It's a great job Donald. It looks exactly like bathrooms used to look in Lincoln's day.
Maybe take a few months off the job and focus on restoring the rest of the White House? It would be a real public service.
Of course land votes. That's the whole problem.
They say AI is going to replace human writers but I would like to see AI try to top this:
Crazy that the building did that to itself
This does raise some interesting questions about the utility of the subsidies...
President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance. Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce.
Shutdowns tend to be brief because Americans are soon reminded that the government does important things. But the end of a shutdown doesn’t mean that everything springs back to normal. Some of the damage endures.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...
And what are we to make of the 1 percent of atheists who agree?
The owners of local TV stations were a conservative force in American politics and society even back when there were a lot of them. But allowing them to consolidate has certainly made it easier for them to flex those muscles.
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I went to lunch yesterday and there were two S.C. national guardsmen at the next table who had clearly been at the restaurant for a while when I got there, and who were still chilling when I left. And I hope they spent the whole day inside enjoying the air conditioning. Much safer for all of us.
Tech companies like to tell stories in which government rarely appears except as an outside force threatening to break the beautiful things they’ve created.
The story that doesn’t get told is how their successes have relied on the government's interventions.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
They should arm the National Guard troops with flyswatters. Put them to work doing something actually useful. The mosquitos in DC are out of control.
The thing I've always wondered about is, say you're a young person in DC interested in law enforcement. How do you decide which of the several dozen flavors police you want to be?
