they claim otherwise, but Compact is extremist right-wing, not staid GOP
― rob, Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:46 (one month ago) link
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.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 14:52 (one month ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 May 2024 21:08 (four weeks ago) link
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
― rob, Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:00 (two weeks ago) link
i was just about to post that
― adam t. (abanana), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:11 (two weeks ago) link
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.”
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:22 (two weeks ago) link
lol jesus christ
― subpost master (wins), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:25 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:44 (two weeks ago) link
lol that's so bad it almost seems subversive
― rob, Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:56 (two weeks ago) link
(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
― felicity, Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:58 (two weeks ago) link
No you see "a wide berth" is the population problem that Swift attempted to solve in A Modest Proposal
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:00 (two weeks ago) link
pun that I had missed
― felicity, Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:16 (two weeks ago) link
"a wide berth" means to avoid entirely iirc, I think she meant to say "give them some leeway"
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 18 May 2024 20:09 (two weeks ago) link
we have not given this article a wide berth
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 May 2024 20:09 (two weeks ago) link
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wide_berth
― felicity, Saturday, 18 May 2024 20:11 (two weeks ago) link
I recently had to explain this term to a non-English speaker, but really, NYT?
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 May 2024 23:35 (two weeks ago) link
To be fair I agree most satirists should be given a wide berth.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 19 May 2024 12:18 (two weeks ago) link
Bill Maher in particular
not interested in any meaning of wide berth that isn't about that wagon
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Sunday, 19 May 2024 14:58 (two weeks ago) link
a wide berth isn't something you're given, it's something you earn
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Sunday, 19 May 2024 15:00 (two weeks ago) link