As it turns out, I said you should stick to stories about shopping bags first, and you responded by saying I'm a defender of pedophiles. Gee, wonder which statement is more unconscionable. Anyway, as evidence that I'm a misogynist, you claim I called one politician, Kamala Harris, "dumb," which is sketchy logic. You also claim it's because I said Trump's not an "adjudicated rapist," which is true because he was held liable for "sexual abuse," not rape. A quick Google search will clarify this for most people, but not you. As I recall, you also claimed Trump was "convicted" of rape, when in civil court there are no convictions.

Review my comments again. See if I told you to stick to articles about shopping bags "after" you said I defended a pedophile, thus associating me with such a heinous crime. We'll start there. And it's decided - I won't have you write my obituary! Such a bizarre comment.

I have just reviewed your comments on this website. Across time you have commented in disparaging, insulting and definitely bullying ways in primarily only my articles in a way that can absolutely be accurately described as bullying. Misogyny is in evidence in your numerous disparaging comments against me (“stick to writing about shopping bags” etc) as a woman journalist on this site across time, referring to Kamala Harris as “dumb,” and mostly in your vehement defense against my correct (and sourced) use of the term “adjudicated rapist” for Trump, which led to my assumption you support him. Again, a reminder you wouldn’t have to call me any names if you simply didn’t read my work. Curious whether people come to your work and harass you for the job you’re doing? It’s just pointless and unnecessary. “Comment troll” just doesn’t seem like a very productive or rewarding hobby for your future obituary.

For all the craftmanship, the movie sympathizes with a bunch of absolute, utter assholes, and that left a sour taste in my mouth as well. Travis? Giga-asshole. Jane? Asshole. Heck, the doctor? Asshole. Walt is the only adult character who's not a complete monster, and he amounts to little more than a MacGuffin.

You can't even apologize without more unjustified name-calling. I assume you'd agree that if you, a journalist, call me a misogynist then you can back it up with at least one solid piece of evidence. So I challenge you to do so. If you do not do this - you can't, because there's no evidence - then you're not a journalist. You're mostly a name-caller, because that's all you have.

While it does not excuse your repeated bullying and misogyny, I misunderstood an earlier defense of Trump/Fox News you made in a comment to constitute support, so I do apologize. No one should have to be characterized as a supporter of his who is not. I’m sorry. Now I can simply dislike you for being a comment troll. I have been writing about my life for over 30 years, it’s what I do. Might I suggest, if you don’t like it, to simply not read it.

I didn't vote for Trump, don't support him, but I realize this is the only way you know how to debate. The strawman technique is your go-to. You really shouldn't write about politics, where you're way out of your depth. Stick to your favorite topic - yourself.

I’m not whining, just observing and I don’t need a pass for anything. Saying I’m a name caller while you’re here to call me additional names is hypocrisy. You’re a common schoolyard bully: keyboard edition. I’m just calling a spade a spade as I’ve done in the past when you’ve bullied me, often in favor of (boo hoooo MAGA buyer remorse) the pedophile you folks are having a tough time justifying electing.

Maybe you shouldn't say I defend a pedophile, am a Trump supporter, a misogynist, etc. All false accusations you can't support. You're just a name caller, like some HS student. Your behavior is scurrilous and unprofessional. But you want a pass because of your condition? Sorry, not happening. Associating someone with pedophilia due to a fit of pique is as low as a person can go. It's going to get you some pushback. You can whine about it as much as you want, but what comes around goes around.

except you don't, because here you are ironically mocking me for a mental health condition while I am writing an article trying to fight the stigma about it. would you mock someone for getting chemo while they have cancer? no. so the stigma of mental health lives on.

Washington Post too: Shirley Povich, Tom Boswell, Wilbon and Kornheiser, Sally Jenkins, etc

Symptoms of BPD: hostility, impulsivity, irritability, lack of restraint, wide mood swings. Now I get it.

It's because feminists have a racist double standard. They're quick to criticize white guys but avoid criticizing black guys for the most part. Robin caught all the flak for it, and they barely said anything to Pharrell or T.I. This song was tame/vanilla white guy level compared to what's often put out in hip hop. And no, I'm not against feminism. I just don't like this double standard. This hypocrisy that no one talks about doesn't help the cause.

The novelist Mark Helprin, HELPRIN. Not Mark Halperin, the journalist.

"LA" Piscine. Sacré bleu.

The retro-futurism seems to be similar to that of Disney+ "Loki," though more pervasive.

You're right. Questions about the minutia of hyperlinks are fascinating, as are those who provide the answers to them. Inquiring minds want to know these things!

Another look at this half-witted science budget proposal. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gravitational-wave-science-faces-budget-cuts-just-years-after-breakthrough/

Calm down, it's only the comments section of Splice Today. I said it was OT. I thought it was an interesting question, I guess you didn't.

Thanks for clarifying that, Ken. Right down your "hall monitor" alley. Everyone was dying to know the answer to that question.

I took a look and see the hyperlink was in the original. Keeping links in quoted passages is generally considered good practice (and I think inserting one that wasn't there would be dubious).

This is a little OT, but while reading this, I wondered whether the hyperlink in the quoted Bret Stephens text was in Stephens' original text or was added (by Judge) for the current text. Are there rules/customs about that?

DC may have been segregated (it actually still is) with the population west of 16th Street NW (which "terminates" at the White House) 90% white, and the population east of it black, with discreet majority white areas like Capitol Hill, and some "integrated" areas like Columbia Heights (scene of Patricia Neal's home in "The Day the Earth Stoof Still") or Brookland. But just across Rock Creek Park from your parents home were wealthy black neighborhoods, now mainly white, full of multi-million dollar houses: Crestwood, Shepherd's Park, Colonial Village, Takoma Park DC, 16th Street Heights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crestwood_(Washington,_D.C.)

I like Frank O’Hara’s poetry; I too find Robert Lowell’s poetry wearisome. I was hoping to like this essay more than I did. I’m with you all the way on your analysis of “Lana Turner.” Your riff on O’Hara’s dislike of “Skunk Hour,” on the other hand, seems to at direct odds with what O’Hara said. Maybe, maybe, he meant more than what he said. However, that requires what you acknowledge is a complete conjecture about O’Hara and Whitman. Alternately, you’re suggesting that O’Hara isn’t truly saying what’s he saying—He’s objecting to Lowell objecting. That is standing O’Hara on his head.

Actually the second littlest one was not her son because he was younger than my dad, i unfortunately don’t remember which cousin he was but the tallest boy was my great aunt’s son.

They are not going to school, my grandfather filmed this. It was a leisurely trip to the end of the line by lake Roland. The little blondie in white was my dad and the dark haired second tallest boy in stripes was my uncle. The lady that was on camera before they boarded was my aunt Bea and the two other boys I think were her sons

Such a great song. So sad youngin's don't know our music in the 60's and 70's was SO much better than their music is.

"If you only know a cup this way, you don't know the cup." David Thomas threw off sparks every time he opened his mouth.

A loving/moving biography of Les Baxter: https://lesbaxter.com/pages/biography

This is great. please add a blusky link one of these days.

Just saw it yesterday. She was terrific.

Kamala Harris makes a surprise SNL cameo appearance on the weekend before the election and gets rewarded with a slobbery kiss from SNL and their informal endorsement. Unlike the SNL portrayal of Kamala from early in October where she was humorously mocked this appearance was a cringe inducing fawning over her by SNL which came across as contrived and particularly unfunny ..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-rqlU4ZWw...I'm sure this Kamala SNL appearance and portrayal by Maya Rudolph got Howard Sterns full approval though.. .For a minute there I thought SNL was getting back to it's roots of prioritizing comedy and being funny but I guess I jumped the gun on that. For SNL it is back to their primary objective of being left wing propagandists..

There was a time when the politically incorrect Howard Stern tested the social boundaries with his unique and edgy form of humor. In recent years Howard Stern has become a tyrannical establishment weasel. During the Covid-19 epidemic he said "When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it's mandatory to get vaccinated? F--- 'em. F--- their freedom. I want my freedom to live," He said this months after the data proved that the Covid vaccine did not prevent people from getting infected or from becoming infectious... In this recent butt kissing interview with Kamala Harris he criticized SNL comedian Maya Rudolph"s mocking portrayal of Kamala saying " I hate it. I don't want you being made fun of." How dare comedy get in the way of his political agenda. What a sad pathetic stooge Howard Stern has become.

Their best album. I will never stop listening to it.

Decades ago, I was at a party in my uncle's Manhattan high-rise apartment when the building suddenly filled with smoke and we had to evacuate down the stairs. My uncle grabbed a Picasso lithograph, and I grabbed a big tray of roast beef.

Great pic of Riverrun. Really miss that place!