Watching these NBA Finals—the first time I’ve ever watched them, let alone three in a row—I’ve been marveling at how often attempted shots ate 3-pointers, a thing that didn’t exist in the NBA when I was a kid. And discovered this interesting stat.
Shot by my Knicks super-fan daughter Lucy on the way home to Brooklyn from a Manhattan watch party last night.
“Hegseth said the military’s chaplain corps had been ‘infected by…secular humanism.’ The newly consolidated ‘religious affiliation codes’ will allow…[military] personnel to identify as agnostic’” but “humanism and atheism are among those that were removed from the list.”
When Trump’s father was just a few years older than Trump is now, he was diagnosed by two MDs as having dementia—his own reporting “in recent years" he’d had symptoms of “obvious memory decline” and significant impairment,” another that he “did not know his birth date [or] age.”
At Death of A Salesman last night, I inevitably saw the believe-your-own-salesman-BS tragedy as a grim allegory for America at 250.
Outside, dark, rain, a mile from MSG, checked the score. Knicks 17 points down, 7 minutes to go. Gloom on gloom.
Just woke up, OMFG. American comeback allegory?
Amazing speech by Kate Hepburn as the widow of a superrich businessman and presidential contender who was secretly the leader of a cabal of rich fascists plotting to take over the United States. Keeper of the Flame (1942), directed by George Cukor. youtu.be/_abRxAL3hnw?...
In the first 100 days of this dumb, disastrous war he has promised a peace deal was imminent 37 times. www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/p...