no way NYT

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

Mitch McConnell: We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s

(admittedly I am a tiny bit curious which mistakes exactly he's talking about)

the New Deal

I clicked and he thinks the US isn't spending enough on defense -_-

We really fucked up in the 1930s when we didn't spend enough on the military and ended up losing to Hitler

nyt opinion page has been worthless lately. david french ffs

lately?

letters section: 3 academics saying the lab leak article was bullshit, balanced with 1 guy in Arizona who agrees with it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/covid-origins-lab-market.html

Pamela Paul's latest, about why protests aren't for her, reads like Jean Teasdale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/opinion/protests.html

I refuse to believe Pamela Paul is real.

It’s weird that people want to protest when they could just publish their random thoughts in the New York Times.