Laura Lorson

excuse me, what

"Don't produce literature"????? "Don't produce science"????? There is no alchemy without Arabic and thus no chemistry. There would be no need for a Fields Prize had they not, uh, INVENTED ALGEBRA. wtaf

I have met the child across the street precisely twice, and I would be able to come up with three positive bullet points about her. This Mayer gal has some issues

If this guy cannot ascertain, at this point in the Year of Our Lord 2026, that Queens businessman Donald John Trump is functionally unembarrassable, then I'm not sure he's a well of opinion you want to keep drawing from

LOL, yeah, this guy is so not going to Mars

that'll teach me to forward-promote anything

Ethan Klein is apparently neither Ezra Klein nor Ethan Canin, so I cannot help you with any of this

I imagine this will come as a surprise to all those RAGBRAI people

With Tom Skerritt's passing, the cast of Alien have so far died in the same order as the director's cut (where they find Dallas still alive waiting to become a cocoon): 1) John Hurt 2) Harry Dean Stanton 3) Ian Holm 4) Yaphet Kotto 5) Tom Skerritt It's macabre, sure, but it's also fascinating.

what kind of weirdo decides "hey, I bet we could make a lot of money by screwing up dogs for good"

Honestly if he had said K-State basketball and KU football I would have respected that

What could possibly go wrong

If I had one policy I could implement at major newsgathering organizations, it would be"you can no longer punt writing web headlines to the weakest writers in the newsroom". It's tricky, it's nuanced, and requires experience. You cannot just toss it to the intern because you are busy

I avow The Brotherhood of Man #eurovision #unitedwestand

No Children by the Mountain Goats

Politico quotes Roger Marshall as saying "If my opponent were elected, it would give Chuck Schumer and AOC control of the Senate," which I find mystifying since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in the House of Representatives and I am unaware of her having authority in the U.S. Senate

I have been reading some of the research literature on institutional trauma, because whenever (gestures around) this becomes something else, I think it's something we are going to be talking about until well after I die

Katie Zacharia has been fired as White House Press Secretary after five days. That’s half a scaramucci. Five days is now a zacharia.

I don't understand how the question about Elizabeth Holmes has turned into "was she a grifter?" and not "how did a billionaire just not have anyone tell her about Olaplex"

Yes, I definitely want to get into a flying car made by the company whose products occasionally spectacularly catch on fire or randomly explode

BiRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance for Tax Purposes)

this is beautiful

🎶he's losin' Texas, I can tell by the way🎶 🎶he's incarcerating guys🎶 🎶and judging by the sour smile upon his face🎶 🎶he thinks more camps would be wise🎶

I did foreign extemp and captained the quiz bowl team. I enjoyed being stage manager for play productions. I was vocal about liking prog while everyone else was into Madonna & Duran Duran. My favorite book was The Gulag Archipelago and I listened to shortwave radio. I eat disdain for breakfast

The Road Construction

Why is he wearing a pajama top?