“‘It cooks you,’ he would repeat, folding into himself. ‘It cooks you.’ While the time of his trial is always within reach for Smith, the intervening decades are somewhere else, behind a curtain he won’t or can’t push aside.
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"Claims of having grown up in the wild are widely viewed with skepticism, and expertise in the subject is rare."
“There have been some notable cases, though they are few…. As Mr. Rodríguez told it, he was born into a poor family in southern Spain in June 1946. His mother died when he was very young, and the woman his
"In the most eye-popping moment of the exchange, Mr. Watters asked if Dr. El-Sayed believed it was OK 'for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off'…"
“… referring to transition surgeries for minors. Dr. El-Sayed responded by asking if Mr. Watters was circumcised. ‘Uh, yeah, but that’s a personal question, doctor,’ Mr. Watters responded, laughing, before contending that ‘circumcision’s different than castration.’ Dr. El-Sayed said that
"I have just been informed by the United States Navy that all mines have been removed and/or detonated from within the International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz."
“Iran has been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed. Through Space Force, we are watching every square inch of the Strait, as we are, also, with Pickaxe Mountain and the already
"Men are struck and killed more than four times as often as women…. The United States has seen 12 lightning fatalities so far this year."
“The vast majority (90 percent) of lightning-strike victims survive. Most who don’t suffer cardiac arrest or stop breathing. Most victims can be revived by immediate CPR. Strike victims do not hold a charge and are safe to touch…. In many
"In 1983 she was mugged when she was out with her friend Larry David. She smiles. 'This is the curse of Larry David…'"
“‘… it was terrifying but it was also hilarious. We both co-operated because there were two young guys and one of them had a shotgun, but Larry, I guess through stress, slipped into sounding like [the confident sports journalist] Howard
Target apologizes for a costume that — accidentally? — looks like blackface.
You decide. It’s the “Kids’ Glows under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume Bodysuit”:I’ll do a poll:
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"In 2021, Columbia University law professor Philip Hamburger argued that the U.S. public school system violates the First Amendment."
“‘Education,’ he wrote, ‘consists mostly in speech, and parents have a right under the First Amendment to exercise authority over what their children hear.’ Forcing families to accept government messaging — or pay a steep price to escape it —
The Japanese Prime Minister and the possibly reincarnated cockroach.
“Even after moving to the official residence, I carefully wiped down the floor under the dining table, put food scraps in a sturdy lidded garbage can, and washed and sorted plastic containers, so I was shocked when, one day, a
"They were a success in Hollywood on one level. They brilliantly scammed some of the powers that be…"
“… and I never ceased to be amazed that very shrewd, extremely astute, hard-bitten, cynical executives are still blinded by celebrity. There was no proof from the beginning that these people knew how to produce material that people wanted to