Tim Hart and I visited Saratoga Performing Arts Center for the 10th Annual Outlaw Festival featuring Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, and Jeff Tweedy and Wilco. Highlights included “All Along the Watchtower” and a sped-up version of “Desolation Row” from Dylan, “How Time Slips Away” from Nelson, “Jesus’ Son” from Wilco, and “Change the …
7.31 Atlanta 7.30 Atlanta 7.29 Atlanta. Bought a house. 7.28 Atlanta 7.28 Ryne Sandberg dies at 65. 7.27 Jamelle Bouie in the Times: “One of the things that drives me a little crazy is whenever people talk about the 2020 protests and they say, well, the 2020 protests contributed to Trump, blah, blah, blah, wokeness, …
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JUNE 21 There is the thicket, and there is the path. For months, Democrats have been wandering in a thicket of words. Kathy Hochul just showed us the path. Hochul has been the governor of New York since 2021. A small-ish person with a husky voice, she brings a refreshing unpretentiousness to her job. She …
6.29 Zohran Mamdani on NBC’s Meet the Press: “I don’t think we should have billionaires because frankly it is so much money in a moment of so much inequality,” 6.28 Tim, Shawn and I journey to the Bronx, where the A’s mash the sluggish Yanks 7-0. Pictured: Judge, Stanton, Volpe. 6.26 Max Hastings on Bloomberg, …
On a day when Donald Trump‘s self-glorifying birthday/ US Army’s birthday proved to be an anti-climatic dud, on a day when two Minnesota legislators and their spouses were gunned down in their homes, on a day when US Marines were still deployed to Los Angeles, millions of people in thousands of locations across the country …
6.14 No Kings Day. 6.14 Sen. Mike Lee on X: “This is what happens. When Marxists don’t get their way,” 6.14 Brian Klass in The Atlantic: “Trump’s rhetorical incitements to violence extend to politicians too. He has called his political opponents “human scum.” Even more worrying are Trump’s endorsements of violence against specific Democrats. In 2016, he …
5.30 Loretta Swit dies at 87. 5.29 Trump on Truth Social: “The ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade is so wrong, and so political! Hopefully, the Supreme Court will reverse this horrible, Country threatening decision, QUICKLY and DECISIVELY. Backroom ‘hustlers’ must not be allowed to destroy our Nation! . . .The horrific decision …
4.30 Lawrence H. Summers, in conversation with Bill Kristol: “The issue is becoming, in a meta sense, confidence in the United States. When people go in and out of being confident in you, that is alarming. It’s the kind of thing that in a developing country, you’d ask yourself whether they’re going to have to …
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After Montreal, we headed further north to visit Quebec City, where neither of us had ever been. It’s a very beautiful city. On Sunday, we visited the still snow-spotted Plains of Abraham, where the British general Wolfe defeated Montcalm, the excellent general who had already won important battles at Fort Ticonderoga and Fort William Henry. …
We spent three days in a mostly but not entirely overcast Montreal. We stayed in the elegant Hotel Bonaparte in Vieux Montreal, just a short walk from La Place des Armes, where we saw the statue of the chevalier and Notre Dame. That night we had a wonderful dinner at the posh hotel restaurant. On …