Everything old is new again. The reactionary right appeared in it's current form so distinctly that (except for the names) Hofstadter's essays could have been yesterday, instead of 70 years ago.

there is a video of Tiffany Trump walking to kiss her father who turns away from her as if he doesn't know who she is and you watch her face fall. His estranged wife shrinks from his touch on camera and somehow people trust that guy to think of their families. Make it make sense.

Tim and Gwen Walz sound like they were wonderful, dedicated educators, but the real lesson here is teachers do this kind of unpaid heroic shit every day and they literally have to be nominated for Vice President before you hear about it

Oooh -- nice!

Hopefully this doesn't add excessively to the overwhelm, but a quick note to the agent who secured this printing could help take the job of fixing this editorial over-reach out of your hands.

It isn't. Granted, my area is technical nonfiction, but the scope of publishing rights varies very surprisingly little across specialty.

...and _severely_minimal, fix-the-fannys-and-weird-decimalization localization at that. I am having to assume this is 1st UK printing that somehow landed on a house editor's desk by mistake...?

Fucked around in a mountain stream and found trout.

Fucked around with bathroom tiles & found grout.

He had that backwards: civilization was TOO SLOW during the paleolithuc era. Human development of every kind took off when Pleistocene glaciation retreated. Removing the obstacle of large parts of the world being under ice allowed human potential to advance at its natural blazing fast speed.