Reminder that Ben Stein was a member of the Nixon White House. So was Diane Sawyer.

I think so too!

New Jersey is in one of the worst droughts of the last 120 years. I’m not sure how many wildfires they’ve been fighting recently (it’s a lot); I know there have been over 200 brushfires in New York City in just the past couple weeks.

What’s scary is this 2016 column from Rolling Stone, titled Will America’s Worst Wildfire Disaster Happen in New Jersey?:

[…] the single most destructive blaze in U.S. history could occur in the Northeast […] The Pine Barrens is the lone island of contiguous forest [between Richmond and Boston] [covering a 1.1-million-acre tract in southern New Jersey].

Whereas regular fires used to thin out the Pinelands, large swaths have remained relatively untouched for decades due to strict preservation laws. The result is a giant tinderbox of untended woods that’s surrounded by 100,000-person suburbs. A Wildfire Risk Assessment published by New Jersey compared the Pinelands to “an inch of gasoline covering all of south and central New Jersey.”

In other words, they’re going to confirm him. :(

The attorneys invoked a New York rule that allows attorneys to withdraw when a “client insists upon taking action with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement” or when a client “insists upon presenting a claim or defense that is not warranted under existing law and cannot be supported by good faith argument,” or when “the client fails to cooperate in the representation or otherwise renders the representation unreasonably difficult for the lawyer to carry out employment effectively."

Translation: they’re afraid of sanctions or even being disbarred if they continue working with the man publicly flouting court orders.

”Mr Trump doesn’t have to help me get out of this,” he said as he stepped into a car. “All Mr Trump has to do is straighten out the legal system, and you’ll find out who the real criminals are.”

This was a civil case, there’s nothing to overturn. And you lost it by default because you couldn’t be arsed to show up in court.

Can you pick it up and deliver it to the new office in person?

But you don’t eat her food, why should she want to?

Just because you changed the clocks back doesn’t mean that time actually changed.

But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to close the door! You know that, right?

The Smithsonian tweeted the photo and credited it as coming from “Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, gift of Joe Schwartz and family, ©Joe Schwartz”. I’m going to take their word for it.

The original is in the Smithsonian, so I doubt it.

Herkimer Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Dan Snow did a short historical thing on it as well.

Umm, both of those articles are from 2020. He’s making slow progress with The Haunted Chocolatier while he continues to tinker with Stardew; I haven’t heard much about the other game.

For the Raj period, there’s also The Jewel in the Crown. For the Company Rule period, there’s Beecham House.

I always worry about pets during crises; it’s good that some people have the timr to help :)

Oh, cool. Do X next!

Interesting phrasing there. Orange guy “fell victim to” (was Innocent) while blue lady “was guilty”.

It’s true that we often excuse our own behavior by what we intended, and often blame others based on their behavior without knowing their intent. But that isn’t a behavior you might expect from a psychologist determined to analyze a situation, showing a bunch of his own biases.

Marvin, is that you?

That’s exactly what I was thinking.