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A New Arm of the Kremlin open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

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Our tailspinning country has traitors in high places. Time for a cocktail and thoughts about tropical escapes. This is a Barano Bird, w/Ron Zacapa dark rum, Bacardi light, pineapple and lime juices, Gran Classico, maple syrup, orange bitters and orange twist. Sip, savor, plot resistance. #cocktails

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"Putin’s team sees Trump’s team as a clown car, full of amateurs — easy pickings for the savvy and cynical Putin’s ultimate goal: 'MRGA — Make Russia Great Again (and Make America Less Great Again).'” Our spineless "leaders" are leading us down a dark path. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

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Great work with a combo of irony, scorn and self-effacement here. Hilarious! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/s...

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die: Immortal Wisdom from the Park Ranger Who Inspired Generations www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/19/e...

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Hoo man, our entire country needs a drink. Here are a pair of Boulevardiers w/ Woodford Reserve, Gran Classico (more interesting than Campari), Dolin vermouth, orange wedge. Normally up, but this eve, with a big rock. And outside even! Here’s to democracy’s return. #cocktails

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Dan Rather's succinct descriptive listing of the ways that billionaire fools are trying to destroy all the beneficial programs of our country. And they intimate that it's swelling their manly parts. Did Anyone Not See This Coming? open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

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Every winter for several years I've used my "Happy Light" to bathe in 10,000 lumens for a half-hour every morning, hoping to address my mild-to-moderate SAD. Thinking I may need to add a 10,000+ boost, as we watch President Musk and his lickspittle The Donald smash our democracy to smithereens.

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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I drove down to Monterey on Sunday for a big event. The big event was actually scheduled for March 16, not Feb 16. Duh. But it was a beautiful day for a walk: here's a shot of the shoreline between the Aquarium and Lovers Point (which you can see jutting out in the background).

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His "only I can fix it" in overdrive (into the ground) here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/o...

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Libraries. Dig 'em. #AuthorsAgainstBookBans #UnitedAgainstBookBans

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Pining for the Patriarchy open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

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Loved his zany, improbable plots and sentences and attitude. I wanted to be Tom Robbins. RIHG (Rest in Holy Goofiness), Mr. Robbins. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

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Reworldling Humanity: E.B. White's Magnificent 1943 Response to a Politician Who Wanted to Make the Pacific Ocean an American Lake www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/03/e...

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Such a delightful couple of weeks, with King Elon blowtorching the Constitution. Time for strong drink: a Black Manhattan w/ Woodford bourbon, Dolin vermouth, Cynar amaro, brandied cherry, twist. God help us all.

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The Purge open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

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"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. The effect you have on others’ lives is the highest expression of your own." —Maya Angelou From the always-good newsletter of @jamesclear.bsky.social

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Writers: have you discovered Write Unboxed? It's more than a mere blogsite. It's a resource, a community, and sometimes for me, a lifeline to my sanity in this crazy-making gig.

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"Remember fun. Scowling your way through the next four years isn’t likely to be a good time." A few ways to not go fully out of your mind and avoid full drenching in the bubbling vat of sludge on the boil right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/o...

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"No question: If Trump stays on this course, he will definitely make America more “exceptional” than ever — just not in the way he meant it." Thomas Friedman on our new Mad King's short-sided perceptions on energy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

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Yes, adolescent boys wanting to display their piddling crocuses, to borrow a term from Eugenides's "Middlesex": #bogusbillionaires www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Since I seem to be liking everything less, this seems like good advice: sashachapin.substack.com/p/how-to-lik...

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This one’s an invocation to “Begone Satan!” After he (and climate change) sparked the horrific LA fires, he came up north here to burn down a giant lithium-ion battery plant, and it’s a toxic mofo. Mai tai in your eye, Old Scratch

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"... to feel acutely disoriented. The country is burning; your friends are going on vacation; next week Donald Trump will be president; the government is setting the fires to stage a “land grab”; a new cannabis-infused drink will help you “crush” Dry January. " www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Gosh, #DavidLynch and #BobUecker catapult into the beyond on the same day. Whether it's the eternal virtues of cherry pie or getting an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax, here's to the oddballs. Blessed with a different slant on life is good geometry.

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I'd love to have this fellow's attitude (and perhaps it can be cultivated): www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/s...

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Joan Didion's piece on Santa Ana winds (courtesy of @morningbrew.bsky.social) www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/cms/lib5/CA0...

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I just had a sudden involuntary moment of reminding myself that the next president of these United States refers to his babbling, dribbling incoherencies as The Weave, and I guess I don't need to take my appetite suppressant.

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This one’s less a celebration than a lament: here’s to LA County, place of my birth and long years after, now under fiery siege. A Black Manhattan w/ Heaven’s Door whiskey, Cocchi vermouth, Cynar amaro, the usual trimmings. Thanks to the helpers; best to all.

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Across the country road from my house are acres of strawberries, stretching to the nearby ocean. For 25 years, I've seen Hispanic folks toil for hours, in sun and fog. Deport the high percentage of them that are undocumented? No workers, no strawberries, no justice. www.goodtimes.sc/santa-cruz-c...

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Absolutely 100 percent

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Continuing my trend of self-praise, for the last six months I've had weekly one-hour conversations with a Ukrainian woman (Tanya) hoping to improve her English through the ENGin program. She lived in Kyiv, but since the war, Poland. It's been fun and educational for us both. www.enginprogram.org

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Joining with my fellow billionaire friends, Jeff, Zuck, and Elon, in expressing our toadiest veneration for the Orange Toxin. (Of course, I'm a hypocrite in selling books on Amazon, but I haven't bought anything there in a couple of years. One does love to virtue-signal though.)

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My friend Yuvi always makes me laugh as he makes me think. 😂+🤔=🙂‍↕️

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"At least I get to hear my son call me his hero, as we remember the people who put everything on the line to protect our democracy and continue to tell the truth about Jan. 6. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

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Sigh. Word murder most foul (and every day less strange and unnatural): www.fastcompany.com/91236515/how... #books #publishing #AI

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Weird one tonight—let’s call it a Woopsiedoodle: Batavia Arrack (a sugarcane/rice 100-proof spirit), lemon juice, orgeat syrup, bit of Zacapa 23 rum, cherry bitters, brandied cherry with a splash of the cherry-soaked brandy, soda water. Odd, but always fun to play with the cabinet chemistry kit.

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Thoughtful perspectives on engaging in the new year from @jamesclear.bsky.social jamesclear.com/3-2-1/januar...

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Watched The Wizard of Oz last night to fly on my broomstick into the new year. Great print, and what a treat to see again what a creative, scary, heartfelt and goofy film it is. (And reading about all the mishaps—some serious—on set was sobering, but I was only half-sober, because New Year's.)

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Despite feeling punky from a lingering cold, perhaps a New Year’s Eve cocktail as a bolster: a Boulevardier w/ Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel, Gran Classico, Cocchi vermouth, orange wedge, brandied cherry—restorative. (At least for now.) Happy New Year!

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The reality of meliorism seths.blog/2024/12/the-...

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A bus stop mural in our Watsonville, CA town plaza (which has all kinds of festive Christmas decorations on the trees and buildings)

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Some are arch, some are whimsical, some are downright pronged, but all are good (and good at discussing the bad): www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...

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Fri. eve ambrosia for my crummy Christmas cold: a Pegu Club w/Tanqueray, Grand Marnier (substituting for Orange Curaçao), fresh lime juice, Angostura and orange bitters, shaken to tangy glory; Santa certified.

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