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Rahm's extraordinary feat unsurprisingly sent fans on Twitter into meltdown.

The mother of Kyle Rittenhouse said neither her son nor the protesters should have been on the street that night and put much of the blame for what happened on police and the governor.

Res ipsa loquitur.  Post title credit to the via,

 "Mark Twain, famously defensive of his right to punctuate exactly how he wanted to, purportedly grew weary of criticism of his sometimes unconventional choices and published a piece of writing that was wholly without punctuation marks, but with a string of commas, semicolons, and other marks at the bottom of the text, along with a note telling the reader to put them where he or she pleased since Twain clearly couldn't be trusted with them. (The sources that mention this piece report it variously as a letter or as a short story; I have yet to find the Twain composition that matches this description.)"

"... Twain was excoriating a proofreader, a professional figure who frequently met with his wrath.  Ninety percent of the "labor & vexation" of writing, Twain insisted, "consists in annihilating their ignorant & purposeless punctuation & restoring my own."

[Twain]: "Yesterday Mr. Hall wrote that the printer's proof-reader was improving my punctuation for me... & I telegraphed orders to have him shot without giving him time to pray."

"Samuel Taylor Coleridge lavished praise on the literary mastery displayed by Daniel Defoe for his use of a semicolon in Robinson Crusoe - a semicolon which, it turns out, doesn't appear in the majority of editions of the book.  "In effect," one critic summed up, "Coleridge has chosen to praise the work of a typesetter contemporary to himself, not Defoe."  So in terms of exegesis of a book, there are a lot of unknowns that render it hard to make claims about what an author's intentions really were."

"One night, after an especially exhausting conference in the city, I walked up and ordered "two gins and tonic."  The person manning the kiosk was briefly speechless at being confronted with such an idiot as myself who couldn't even order properly.  Finally, perhaps after considering the possibility I might be too drunk already to serve, she asked me if I meant "two gin and tonics."  I opted not to go into the pluralization rule..."

Gleanings from Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark.  This will be an interesting read for copyeditors; for others, it's probably TMI.  A quick internet search didn't yield a plural of "gin and tonic" written in stone.  I found "gins and tonic" "gin and tonics" "gins and tonics" and even "gin and tonic" as the plural of "gin and tonic" as in "I'll have two gin and tonic."

Here’s what you should know about mouthwash and COVID-19.

After suffering the devastating loss of her son Jack with John Legend, Chrissy Teigen has opened up about the experience.

The lawsuit includes claims of defamation and breach of contract.

A Sacramento County family is celebrating a miracle this week. Twin girls who were conjoined by their heads were successfully separated at UC Davis Medical Center.

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Bacon makes everything taste better, but does it make everything smell better?

Another holiday hallmark is going virtual this year.

A Texas woman died of COVID-19 on a Spirit flight from Las Vegas to Dallas that was diverted to Albuquerque on July 25, officials confirm.

As the presidential race intensifies and Election Day nears, we're taking a look at how California has voted in the past.

We offered the neighborhood children gourds one Halloween, and they were more popular than the candy.  I've never seen one like this, though.

I have literally not been following the story, but I found this summary of it today.

The way we celebrate Thanksgiving this year will be "unfortunate" and will cause "concern" for some, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.

Workers at a Florida company are wondering about their job futures and whether that has anything to do with how they vote.

A Beauty and the Beast classic repurposed for a good cause.  (Comments closed because there's nothing more to say.)

Reposted from 2020 because it's still relevant.

The zoo has a sprightly 5-year-old boy to thank for the lemur's safe recovery.

Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan has shared a personal story that counters the GOP's anti-abortion rhetoric.

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Evolution of the Republican party, as described by Garry Trudeau in his recent book Lewser.

The competition is over, everyone go home

The number one fashion item for all seasons for the foreseeable future, as we all know, is masks. So, making the best of a bad (read: incredibly horrible and awful, jesus christ) situation, we’ve all started ordering, or making, if you’ve got the talent, our own personalized masks. My mask is entirely black because at this point, that is a pretty good representation of who I am inside, just a void.

However, the best personalized mask goes to actor and king of the internet, Macaulay Culkin.

You know those companies that sell personalized masks that are literally prints of the bottom half of your face? Y’know, so that people on the street can get an idea of what you look like if your head had the same horrifying proportions and resolution of a PS2 video game character? Well, Macaulay has hopped aboard that train, except with one difference — this one actually kicks ass.

Remember, listen to Macaulay (and scientists too but whatever) and wear your masks, no matter how horrifying!

The number of locations where Texas voters can drop off their mail-in ballots has been vastly reduced, in what Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday was an effort to ensure poll security.

Oluvil, Sri Lanka.  "Elephants forage for food at a rubbish dump encroaching on their jungle habitat. Examination of dead elephants has revealed undigested polythene and other plastic waste."  Photograph: Tharmaplan Tilaxan/Cover Images, via The Guardian.

It’s the only explanation

Like all forms of art, comedy is subjective. We’ve all got our own personal taste, some folks enjoy deadpan one-liners, some prefer slapstick and fart jokes, some people even like sitcoms with laugh tracks. Those people need a lot of help, but that’s not what we’re here to discuss. There is one thing, though, that comedy lovers of all sorts can come together on and agree that, yes, this rules: good impressions.

Impressions are really, really hard to do well, as I’m sure we all know because we’ve all definitely attempted a few, and there’s not a single dad on this earth who doesn’t have a half-baked Arnold or Sylvester ready to go at a moment’s notice. Nailing someone’s speech pattern and intonation and capturing all the subtle nuances that make their voice theirs is no small task on its own, but imagine trying to add singing on top of that. If done well, impersonations of singers can be straight-up mesmerizing to watch (and super addictive which is why I can’t search “Jimmy Fallon wheel of musical impressions” on YouTube anymore while I’m working), and this is definitely one of those performances.

Rachel Harper is a Welsh writer, actor, and —you guessed it— top shelf impressionist. In a video she tweeted Sunday, Rachel sings the absolute bop that is “WAP” by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, and she doesn’t just do it in the style of one celebrity, no no.

She busts out a whole twelve different impressions, and she does it flawlessly.

Watching Rachel transition from a perfect Dolly Parton to a perfect Adele to a perfect Shakira honestly broke my brain a little bit. I have no idea how she did it, but there’s gotta be some sorcery involved. Like, there’s no way she doesn’t have a glowing shell necklace that she uses to capture the voices of famous singers. It’s either that or she got all of these celebrities to touch a magic basketball from space and sucked out their powers that way. Those are the only logical explanations.