no way NYT

not to mention that people who are good with noodles aren't always financial geniuses. and finding a genius to help you month by month is hard and also costs $$. or at least a decent accountant costs some dough.

From what I've seen of restaurant entrepreneurs, this is how you do it.

1. Have an idea for a restaurant
2. Get a group of partners to put up money
3. Use the money for drugs
4. Hire people you think you can sleep with/do drugs with
5. Open the restaurant
6. Close the restaurant a few weeks later

― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes)

a lot of restaurants are indeed based on this model

i'd add:

5a: invite all of your family and friends to the restaurant and feed them for free

A.G. Sulzberger, world's whiniest bitch.

For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term. The president occupies the most important office in our nation, and the press plays a vital role in providing insights into his thinking and worldview, allowing the public to assess his record and hold him to account.

Mr. Biden has granted far fewer press conferences and sit-down interviews with independent journalists than virtually all of his predecessors. It is true that The Times has sought an on-the-record interview with Mr. Biden, as it has done with all presidents going back more than a century. If the president chooses not to sit down with The Times because he dislikes our independent coverage, that is his right, and we will continue to cover him fully and fairly either way.

However, in meetings with Vice President Harris and other administration officials, the publisher of The Times focused instead on a higher principle: That systematically avoiding interviews and questions from major news organizations doesn’t just undermine an important norm, it also establishes a dangerous precedent that future presidents can use to avoid scrutiny and accountability. That is why Mr. Sulzberger has repeatedly urged the White House to have the president sit down with The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNN and other major independent news organizations that millions of Americans rely on to understand their government.

For those mercifully unaware, this is a response to this Politico piece about how much the Times and the Biden White House hate each other — and, specifically, that because Biden hasn't given the Times an exclusive interview, Sulzberger has been pushing the Biden-is-old narrative.

why is the word "independent" in there a dozen times?

leaky brain thinking that news organizations should have complete access while not respecting the asks of the subjects being covered. it’s a negotiation: access journalism taken too far is utterly corrupt and in the pocket of the sources, but an org with no ability to finesse relationships has no journalistic juice

it’s all posturing. they just have sour grapes because giving the NYT info did nothing for Biden’s campaign and they got kicked to second tier after printing the name of an off-record source. might be a weakness of the Biden admin for having a sense of rules and procedure while Trump’s people were more than happy to blab all over while bitching about the crooked nytimes

if that nepo baby running the Times would just insist that everyone call him Punch people would respect him more.

or punch him. one or the other.

Biden is doing a live interview with Howard Stern this morning. I guess we should prepare for about 16 stories in the next 24 hours about how old and feeble he is.

Howard has seen better days

No matter how much wealth and status these people accumulate it still kills them to get roasted on Twitter by @bigtittyberniebro42069

This idea that I don't understand Cage's piece is willfully uncomprehending, well, nonsense. I know he wanted us to listen to surrounding sound. I made an exception for making Jewish people listen to calls for Israel to be destroyed.

— John McWhorter (@JohnHMcWhorter) April 26, 2024

Is there a competition within the freeze peach crowd to be the biggest hypocrite right now? He's really putting in the work. I was going to post some of his past writing about safe spaces and campus protests, but nearly *everything* he wrote before now contradicts his current position lmao

i can totally do it. i can totally not think of her when i see a cowboy hat. i think of lil nas x when i see a cowboy hat. and cowboys. i think of cowboys.

Beyoncé’s Last Fashion Frontier
It’s now impossible to see a cowboy hat or pair of cowboy boots and not think of her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/style/beyonce-cowboy-fashion.html

Yeah there’s a lot about the Times that makes me go “whuh” or infuriates me but for some reason that Beyonce article made me want to write a letter— I have never thought of Beyonce when I see a cowboy hat, nor will I ever think of Beyonce when I see a cowboy hat. These people are nuts

Beyonce invented cowboy hats

I think of Raylan Givens or Sam Elliott in Tombstone.

I think of a million bands from Mexico

I think of a million bands from Mexico

Hell, in the picture at the top of the article she looks like Jenni Rivera.

Matthew Schmitz

Trump Is Lawless, Yes. But in the Name of a Higher Law.

Mr. Schmitz is a founder and an editor of Compact, an online magazine.

bring me a higher law
ohhh

Mr. Trump may pose a threat to our political system as it now exists, but it is a threat animated by a democratic spirit. It is the threat of the outlaw hero, a figure of defiance with deep roots in American culture who exposes the injustices and hypocrisies of a corrupt system.

this CANNOT be real

it's kind of funny watching these staid republican types tie themselves into pretzels

This has got to be written by one of those “debate me” guys. JFC

they claim otherwise, but Compact is extremist right-wing, not staid GOP

Missed the restaurant convo but Scott was v v otm. My parents had one place for 30 years and another for 14. They sold the second place in 2006 and it's been 5 places since. It is such a hard business. Please used to ask me all the time if I was going to takeover. Literally never crossed my mind.

how can we possibly know what the kids want if they refuse to debate a famously open-minded former ronald reagan speechwriter

When protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen. ⁦@Peggynoonannyc⁩ describes her visit to Columbia before the raid. pic.twitter.com/S2fxZZVXwe

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 4, 2024

halp, I have suffered brain death from reading these words:

Maureen Dowd

The Truth Hurts — Especially When Bill Maher Dishes It Out

10 min read

i was just about to post that

and yes, it is a puff piece that could have been written 20 years ago.

Maher evokes the twin archetypes of the wisecracking kid who sat behind you in school and the grumpy uncle who sits next to you at Thanksgiving. He’s a rebel with a cause: He actually cares about the things he complains about, so there’s heart behind the cynicism.

Jerry Seinfeld called the consistently high level of Maher’s editorials “shocking.” “Your brain is worthy of all the attention it gets,” he teased Maher on “Club Random,” Maher’s podcast.

His range may be explained by something Maher, a Cornell history major, writes in his book: “I watch the History Channel like most guys watch Pornhub.”

lol jesus christ

The best part of that article is that neither Maureen Dowd nor her editors know what the phrase "a wide berth" means:

My idol is Jonathan Swift, so I think that satirists — the other “Swifties” — should be given a wide berth. Sometimes they’ll miss the mark, sometimes they’ll be offensive. But we need our jesters to hold up a mirror to our society, now more than ever.

lol that's so bad it almost seems subversive

(on the editor's part)

It's more that it's archaic, in the sense of "room to maneuver a ship around to avoid hitting rocks" but very No Way NYT nonetheless

No you see "a wide berth" is the population problem that Swift attempted to solve in A Modest Proposal

pun that I had missed

"a wide berth" means to avoid entirely iirc, I think she meant to say "give them some leeway"

we have not given this article a wide berth

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wide_berth

I recently had to explain this term to a non-English speaker, but really, NYT?

To be fair I agree most satirists should be given a wide berth.

Bill Maher in particular

not interested in any meaning of wide berth that isn't about that wagon

a wide berth isn't something you're given, it's something you earn