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@jabel True enough!

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@jabel Yet, his pattern has always been to stiff regular working folks.

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Trump Delusion Syndrome is a real thing, but it’s the precise opposite of what he and his bootlickers say it is.

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@jabel Certainly true. But are there really no standards of what is and isn’t appropriate – in terms of taste or decorum – for the Office of the President?

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@manton It really is odd, isn’t it? But good odd!

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@ayjay from the introduction:

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>Today, however, the main drivers of development are private, often transnational, parties that are endowed with resources and the capacity to intervene that surpass those of many Governments. Technological power thus takes on an unprecedented, predominantly “private” aspect, which makes it even more challenging to discern, govern and direct such power toward the common good.

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So, no thoughtful responses? To your point: “Yeah, duh.”

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@patrickrhone Beatrix has some good parents.

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@tinyroofnail @JohnBrady @BonnieRue @miljko – John Graves was a superb writer and naturalist who wrote about the country about 100 miles into the dry line that separates East Texas from West Texas (and, thus the U.S. East from the U.S. West in that territory). The bumblebees to Costa Rica reminded me of this, about small swift birds flying to the Argentine.

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@mwerickson (!)

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This resonates

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Matthew Crawford, via Damon Linker

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Capital is concentrated to the point that it operates in quasi-governmental ways, abetted by ever more powerful information technology. Arguably, one of the most important functions of the (actual, elected) government, now, is precisely to restrain and regulate the explosion of unaccountable governmentality in our dealings with outsized commercial enterprises.

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The World Beyond Your Head

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Ah! If only…

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@frjonjordan – In addition to the teams you mentioned in your newsletter, I will be following and rooting for South Korea in the World Cup. Sonny, you know!

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Finished reading: Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford 📚

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Praise him in all the postcodes, thinks Ben.
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Praise him on the commuter trains: praise him upon the drum and bass. Praise him at the Ritz: praise him in the piss-stained doorways. Praise him in nail bars: praise him with beard oil. Praise him in toddler groups: praise him at food banks. Praise him in the parks and playgrounds: praise him down in the Tube station at midnight. Praise him with doner kebabs: praise him with Michelin stars. Praise him on pirate radio: praise him...

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Guy Clark was right

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Vitex (and a bee)

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Gardenias

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It works

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Children really only need one exploit strategy: Be as cute as you possibly can be and get people to love you and take care of you. Fortunately, they are extremely effective at that. – Alison Gopnik (H/T to Austin Kleon)

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Happy (U.S.) Mother’s Day

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This photo of my dad and mom (before she was a mom), captures my mother’s fun and sparkle perfectly (and Dad’s kindness, too).

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“Childness”

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\" … there are these rules that we think of with literature, but in picture books they’re all broken. The main character can be eaten in the middle.”

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“What Adults Lose When They Put Down Children’s Books” by Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, May 9, 2026

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@frjonjordan Preach, Rev.

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Good Question

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The pope tried to put an end to this craziness several times. He insisted that he did not speak on world affairs as a politician (and still less a global umpire) but as a witness to gospel truths. He made quite clear that he would not be cowed by the Trump administration, even as he reminded the scribes and influencers that he did not pick a fight with the president. And in doing so, he suggested, if subtly, that there was something a bit awry about the endless media obsession with the president. Did everything and everyone in the world have to be parsed by reference to Donald J. Trump?

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Listening to Kate and Anna McGarrigle in the backyard on a beautiful May Sunday afternoon after Tottenham actually play well and win. Pretty damn good, mama. “We were like interlocking pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of life.”

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@JohnBrady Agree about Paris, Texas in every respect. I put Wings of Desire up there with Perfect Days.

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@ner3y Yes. Minari is another good one.

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@jabel Very good. I strongly suspected Hopkins, but this one is new to me. Thanks!

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Another Anole

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Babies!

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Prickly Pear

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@ayjay And Stephen Miller may change his name to “Edward Weston.” Not because he loves photography.

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@ReaderJohn As is often the case, Hannah Arendt is prophetic:

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>The fundamental reason for the superiority of totalitarian propaganda […] is that its content, for the members of the movement at any rate, is no longer an objective issue about which people may have opinions, but has become as real and untouchable an element in their lives as the rules of arithmetic.

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Pretty simple, no?

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Before, the Straits of Hormuz were open to international shipping. A good thing, generally speaking. Now President Trump has successfully given Iran sovereignty over the Straits and they’re closed. Unequivocally, not good. The Art of the Deal!

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@ablerism Happy Birthday! It’s my goal to have a birthday at least once every year. So far, so good!

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@mattharwood and Koji Yokush’s acting is so wonderful!

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@dwalbert That Hal! It’s a reminder that even a boy with an unpromising beginning can end up with winning the Battle of Agincourt. Compared to that, staying in the Premier League should a piece of cake.

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Tottenham Hotspur:  118  0 Days Since a Premier League Win

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Will wonders never cease. Still in the relegation zone, though.

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Perfect Days

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Moment by moment by moment, lived gracefully and honorably, makes a life.

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@patrickrhone That’s a great and healthy tradition. It reminds me of when I was a young lawyer and my supervising attorney returned a contract I’d written with so many corrections and changes in red ink that you’d have thought it was a murder scene. I pinned it to the bulletin board in my office under a fortune cookie tag that said, “You will be successful in your job.”

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@ablerism Agreed. I will listen to Isgur/Douthout soon. (Still digesting his conversation with Ben Sasse.)

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@patrickrhone Not to beat a dead horse, but this analysis by Jack Goldsmith does a better job that I did of highlighting what I think are problems with the NYTimes article on the Shadow Docket. You might find it interesting. (Or you might not!)

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Give Some Love to the Anoles

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A Southern gardener’s pal.

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@frjonjordan What a lovely companion! Re: THFC, I’m a bit mad at, but more sad for, Danso.

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This seems at least partially right to me: Spurs are poor passers.

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@ReaderJohn Yeah, looking at my profile again, it’s maybe telling that “tortilla maker” is mentioned, but “lawyer” is not. Not sure that gives readers much of a foothold re: stupid posts.

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@patrickrhone Fair points. But I dislike how The TImes frames this as “secretive” and “risky.” I’m not crazy about the “Shadow Docket,” and it’s undermined the Court’s authority in the eyes of the public, which is bad. But I think in most instances, SCOTUS has used it as a kind of “standstill” order for cases where (1) letting the issue play out pending a final decision probably will be harmful, and (2) there’s a better-than-even-chance that the final ruling will be in line with the temporary relief granted. (Which is what SCOTUS did in the Obama EPA case.) I think whether or not that seems risky or reasonable depends on whether or not one likes the outcome.

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@ReaderJohn “… not as an identity.” I retired after 43 years at the same firm, and I agree completely. (Years ago, my brother introduced me to his friend. After I spent a couple of hours with them, the friend told my brother, “I’d have never guessed that guy’s a lawyer.” I took it as a compliment.)

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Overwrought NYT

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This, from Adam Liptak and Jodi Kantor, strikes me as unwarrantedly high-strung. Read the SCOTUS memos: they’re pretty standard legal back-and-forth based on reasonable arguments on both sides. Nor does the Times show how this led to the Supremes’ “Shadow Docket.”

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Chill, kids.

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Bring Me My Whangee

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Jeeves,’ I said.

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‘Sir?’ said Jeeves. He had been clearing away the breakfast things, but at the sound of the young master’s voice cheesed it courteously.

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“You were absolutely right about the weather. It is a juicy morning.”

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‘Decidedly, sir.’

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‘Spring and all that.’

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‘Yes, sir.’

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‘In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove.’

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‘So I have been informed, sir.’

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‘Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I’m going into the Park to do pastoral dances.

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Home, Again

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Victor Lee Austin, April 2, 2026:

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The resurrection of Jesus is the way God chose to give the created world back to us. The resurrection remakes the world into what God always intended it to be. Thus, God’s resurrection gifts include families and churches and hearts of flesh. Resurrection is God bringing us to home.

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There you have it

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Poorly Drawn Lines by Reza Faramand

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Stones Cry Out

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by Sylwia Perczak - perczaksylwia

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RIP, Tracy Kidder

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His books, especially House and Mountains Beyond Mountains (and to a lesser degree, The Soul of a New Machine) enthralled me.

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Big Sniff

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My first job downstairs is to open the back door and get a big breath of fresh air - rain or shine, winter or summer - I just copy the cats and dog, that’s what they do - that’s how the ‘read’ the day, nose up, what’s in the air? What smells different? Clear out the night-lungs. Start again. Meanwhile the kettle is boiling. I grind the beans. That smell of fresh ground beans. Oh wow! Then I am at the back door again, or in the yard, in my pyjamas and wellies, just with a little time to align myself with myself - and to align myself with this different, new day. It’s a little bit of Tao....

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It’s Spring! (In the northern hemisphere)

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First step in spring cleaning: shave off beard.

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