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The cost of living in a multicultural society is measured by the volume of refrigerator space given over to an assortment of condiments for every craving.

New York Times Spelling Bee game rejects "giggity" because they are no fun
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN STATEMENT ON THE NOMINATION OF JUDGE JOHN G. ROBERTS, JR. TO BE CHIEF JUSTICE JACL... took an “oppose” position to the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr., to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.... Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) also submitted her position... Excerpts are printed below: “There is no question that Judge Roberts is an extraordinary person. I think there is no question that he has many stellar qualities, certainly a brilliant legal mind and a love and abiding respect for the law, and I think a sense of its scope and complexity as well. But before taking the momentous step of agreeing that a nominee serve as the Chief Justice of our Supreme Court, for what in this case could be over 30 years, I wanted to have a reasonable sense of confidence that he would uphold certain essential legal rights and protections that Americans rely on, and rights that reflect the values and ideals that make our country so great. I don’t ask for certainty. I don’t ask for promises—especially as to how a nominee would rule in any case—even one as important as Roe v. Wade. But I ask for some ability to find a commitment to broad legal principles that form the basis of our fundamental rights: • Equal protection under the law, and the ability to remedy discrimination. • A basic right to privacy that extends from the beginning of life to the end of life. • The ability of the American public to elect representatives that have the constitutional power and authority to protect and respond to America’s safety, social, and environmental needs; and • A view of Executive Power that extends deference—but within the law. Sen. Feinstein’s questions to the nominee grew out of these fundamental rights. After looking at Judge Roberts’s record—including memos from 16 cases when he was Principal Deputy Solicitor General, transcripts, written comments, and margin notes—and questioning the nominee, the senator found she could not support the nominee.
Screenshot of New York Times Spelling Bee with the word "caryatid," which was rejected yet would have been a pangram had Spelling Bee been even remotely cultured.
A teapot shrouded in quilted bowl cozies held together with wooden clothes pins
NY Times headline: U.S. job market makes slower but steady gains / Employers added fewer jobs in June than a month earlier but the unemployment rate ticked down, a decent showing for the U.S. economy.
A rather long scroll from a search for "Charity and Sylvia" on Duck Duck Go. I didn't get any links to the 2014 book.
Two 6 month old sisters on a cat tree. Ponyo is an orange and white tabby; we can only see her face peering from above. Below is Kiki, a calico tabby with a smaller and more angular face than her sister. Kiki lost her right eye due to an infection.
"John J. Cafaro in 2002. He leads an investment trust that is the ultimate owner of the company hired to install a water-purification system for the Reflecting Pool." He is a portly middle aged man in a double-breasted herringbone jacket that strains at the buttons. His off-center tie draws attention to the double chin muffin top weighing down his collar. He sports a mustache reminiscent of the Monopoly man. He wears someone's robust head of hair, dark brown with incongruous greys peeking out at the temples, on a deep side part and sweeping across his forehead and down to his brows. You cannot see his hairline. He looks like he might someday get knocked off at his favorite steakhouse.
Subject: Disrespecting Pride Night Hi, I am a lifelong Giants fan, born and raised in S.F., of the generation that was given free tickets for good grades (what a way to cultivate loyalty), and a former season ticket holder in the Baker-Bochy era, and I am angry that the Giants allowed Roupp, Brubaker, Hentges, and Walker to either defile their caps or not to wear it (and thus by extension not to acknowledge it) at all. I am Japanese American and I understand what your players did to be an equivalent to writing, "Enola Gay 8:15" or "Pearl Harbor" on their caps on Japanese Heritage Night. They are messages of erasure. They are messages of cultural hegemony. They are messages of bigotry, and you allowed them.
Screenshot of a NYT headline and sub header. "Hegseth Striked Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List. "The defense secretary's decision to block the officers' promotions appears driven by his anti-diversity stance rather than based on merit"
A tabby cat lying outstretched on the wavy-textured cement floor of a garden store
A medium hair orange and white tabby looking straight at the camera, very supermodel-like.
Chin-level with an orange and white tabby, who looks up, perhaps in hopes of getting a pi day treat.
Head-long view of a medium haired orange and white tabby resting pensively* on a white couch. *this sweetness really has zero thoughts in her precious head
An orange and white fluffernutter looking cute
A tea light shines below a protest sign that reads, "Defying tyranny is American
A tea light shines below a protest sign that reads, "Defying tyranny is American"
The backside of a calico lounging on a cat tree in the winter sunshine, looking out at a small yard through a large and, uh, rather dirty window
Screenshot of an exchange between John Roger's and gengarro. John Rogers: Oh so no, we apparently just kidnapped the leader of a foreign country. What the actual fuck. gengarro: Does that mean it's cool for another country to kidnap yours? Just asking
South Park screenshot of a bunch of middle aged white men, some shirtless, some wearing trucker hats, one wearing a wife beater, one wearing a sleeveless presumably denim vest with a confederate flag patch, one wearing flannel, and another wearing a sleeveless flannel vest over a modified American flag t-shirt. The man in front cries out, "THEY TOOK 'ER JOBS!"
Homelessness counts are at a record high. The United States experienced an unprecedented rise in homelessness, driven by the affordability crisis. Homelessness increased 18 percent, from 653,104 people during the 2023 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count to 771,480 people during the 2024 PIT.
Martin Sandel is a lawyer with 45+ years of legal and real estate experience. His clients appreciate Martin’s professional, confident manner, coupled with his deep knowledge of the local real estate market, and refined negotiating skills honed over decades in the practice of law.
It’s pretty hard to shock an emergency physician. “We see the worst of the worst, and the silliest of the silliest,” Abdullah Pratt, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Chicago Medicine, told me recently. I was chatting with him about the situations he’d witnessed in the E.R., specifically the ones that made him change his own behavior. To start, he told me, he would never wear Crocs when it’s snowy or icy outside. I sheepishly confessed that, just the night before, I’d slipped on a pair and traversed my frozen driveway to take out the trash. “No way,” Dr. Pratt said. “Please don’t tell me you broke your ankle.” In winter, he sees “Croc-specific injuries” once a week. The shoes “don’t provide traction, and they don’t provide any ankle support,” he said. “People go flying, and so do their Crocs.”
A beautiful fiery sunset
An orange and white tabby peers innocently from atop a bookcase while pretending she wasn't just munching on the adjacent spider plant
No line for brunch on a Saturday. Out of the row of bar stools at the counter, two were dirty. One had a used napkin on it and the other had an old newspaper. I sat down on a clean one and order a mushroom cheeseburger $13.50 and a side of sunny side eggs $5.25. Food arrived quickly. When I assembled and ate the burger, all this grease started spilling out. While it tasted good, that can't be healthy. Service was fine.
Table of Contents by John McPhee
Big Black's Atomizer
A distorted close up of a cat's muzzle
A teen on their phone (is that redundant?) lies on a couch, with an orange and white tabby perched on the couch arm and staring at the camera and in the foreground, a calico tabby sitting upright on the floor reflecting on her life's choices.
Symposium presentation. Dr. Nguyen addresses a group of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students, staff, and faculty. To his right is a very large slide titled, "Current Dilemmas & Next Steps."
An orange creamsicle cat targets a cat tail that protrudes from under a couch. The creamsicle thinks she is hidden under the upper flap of an open shoe box, yet her rear half remains completely exposed.
Update from NYT reporter Aimee Ortiz: The F.B.I. is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics, Kash Patel, the agency’s director, said in a statement on social media.
Two cats tucked back amid some folded and many unfolded towels on a cramped closet shelf.
A medium hair orange and white cat cast in a slanted sunbeam and framed by the leafy vines of a neon pothos, one of the few plants that she doesn't eat.
A black t-shirt covered with cat hair
A floofy orange creamsicle cat and a short haired one-eyed calico sit on opposite sides of a cat tree post. The creamsicle stares straight at the camera in wide eyed curiosity while the calico, looking askance at the camera, has an attitude of either reserved judgment or mild guilt. The calico is definitely the smarter of the two.
Bugs Bunny reading the fine print: "Reg US Pat Off."
Drag queen story time on Pride Day at the San Mateo County fair
Screenshot of Jalen Williams wearing a Madness "Fuck art, let's dance" shirt
Two naughty cats, a calico and an orange tabby, peer out from among somewhat folded towels in a linen closet.
"In Mr. Bukele, the White House had a willing ally, albeit one with specific demands, including a list of high-ranking MS-13 gang leaders he wanted sent back to El Salvador as part of the deal. "That stoked alarm among some U.S. law enforcement officials. The Justice Department has spent years building cases against MS-13 leaders for criminal activities in the United States, alleging that the gang has been protected by the Salvadoran government."
Amid a crowd of folks, a man holds a sign that reads, "IKEA has better CABINETS."
An sleeping orange and white tabby snuggled up against a pillow and on a blanket in the crook of a couch
At the SF Bay shoreline at low tide, a squirrel suns itself on large rocks in the foreground, while in the background teeny tiny western sandpipers are arrayed on the mudflat along the water's edge.
Insta post by Rep. Kevin Mullin, with a pic of himself with a walker and standing next to Rep. Petterson cradling a baby: "After three surgeries, a blood clot, an infection, and being hospitalized for over a week, the moment I was discharged I immediately rushed to the airport so I could get on a plane to D.C. and vote NO on Republicans' disastrous budget plan. "Rep. Petterson traveled from Colorado with her newborn son so she could vote NO. Democrats did all that we could to stand united and oppose Republicans' reckless and harmful budget. When Americans see their health insurance costs go up, lose funding for schools, have their roads deteriorate, and have an even harder time affording groceries - they have Republicans to blame."
Insta post by Rep. Kevin Mullin, with a pic of himself with a walker and standing next to Rep. Petterson cradling a baby: "After three surgeries, a blood clot, an infection, and being hospitalized for over a week, the moment I was discharged I immediately rushed to the airport so I could get on a plane to D.C. and vote NO on Republicans' disastrous budget plan. "Rep. Petterson traveled from Colorado with her newborn son so she could vote NO. Democrats did all that we could to stand united and oppose Republicans' reckless and harmful budget. When Americans see their health insurance costs go up, lose funding for schools, have their roads deteriorate, and have an even harder time affording groceries - they have Republicans to blame."
A review of "Gulf of America" posted 2 weeks ago that reads, "This is the Gulf of Mexico and don't you let anyone, much less orange turd-sucking G**gle Maps, try to tell you otherwise."
Elon Musk gives a Nazi salute at the Trump 2025 inauguration
A chart of US population distribution, by generation and race/ethnicity, published by Marketing Charts in 2020, shows non-Hispanic whites comprised a majority of silent (79.3%), boomer (72.3%), and X (60.4%) generations. Whites comprised just over half of millennials (52.7%) and just under half of Z (49.0%).
Screenshot of the bottom of JBouie's newsletter with links to Xitter, Instagram, and TikTok only.
From the College of San Mateo Football Instagram account: SM (San Mateo) National CHAMPIONS 2024 Bulldogs "It's official. Now the job is done."
College of San Mateo scoreboard, reading "Congrats 3C2A State Champions," an image of CSM's bulldog mascot, and the final score Mounties (Mt. San Antonio College) 11, Bulldogs 43
Bluesky profile for mnwolvesguy.bsky.social
WaPo Headline: Trump suddenly discovers that America is already great Sub-header: The president-elect is also discovering that the country is also great
Deflated Frosty the Snowman and Santa Clause face-down on a sad little strip of lawn
A calico and an orange and white tabby cuddling head to head on a fuzzy blue blanket
A black and white photo of two young men posing against a low wooden fence. The one on the right, my father, wears an army service uniform with a torii insignia and two chevrons on his upper left sleeve. I don't know who the one on the left is, and I think he's wearing a black Japanese school uniform.
A cybertruck pulled over in front of two police motorcycles with flashing lights
An orange and white tabby peering out of a pink bakery box