Washington Post: Biden signs bill to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author from Capitol A bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney at the U.S. Capitol in March 2020. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) By Amy B Wang and Marianna Sotomayor
Pulitzer Prize-winning national columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is retiring and wrote his final column Tuesday. “Time flew, didn’t it? Now, it’s time for me to fly off, too.”
[NOTE: The Wall St. Journal is paywalled to the eyelids, so this first clip is a quote of a quote from a week ago without a link, but I’m confident it’s accurate. It was written as speculation about the fragility of the narrow incoming Republican majority (about half a dozen) that will occupy the House of … Continue reading Quotes of The Day: A Double Serving of Irony
GARRISON KEILLOR —11/9/22 I’m thinking I should get to work on a museum of the era before the internet and cellphones and streaming music so that people under 40 know what it was like to talk on a phone with a cord on the kitchen wall and gossip without your mother understanding what it was … Continue reading Thoughts for the Morning After (Not) the Apocalypse
Remembering 9/11 — From the archives Sep 11 BEARING WITNESS By Garrison Keillor Sept. 3, 2006 New York Times Book Review It was a perfect late-summer day in New York, the sort of day when a person feels terribly lucky to be in the city. A man named Pavel Hlava was showing his brother Josef … Continue reading Quote of the Day: Garrison Keillor, Remembering 9/11