There is no path — nor has there ever been a path on any issue — to changing things through disengagement. Opting out just makes the existing pool of voters more conservative. You cannot name one progressive achievement made by not voting. Boycotting power only transfers it to your opponents.

I said I would be at the Apprentice House booth at the Book Festival today, but it's chilly and damp and I'm an old guy, so I'm staying home.

I plan to be at the Apprentice House authors table at the Book Festival on Sunday, 2:00-6:00 p.m. Copies of my books, "The Old Editor Says" and "Bad Advice," will not be available for sale, but if you have one, I would be happy to autograph it.

I have had five shots and am radiating immunity. If you sit within three feet of me, you're covered too.

The staff obits have for decades striven to cover the full range of Baltimoreans, not just purported notables, and they have been for many a reason to continue subscribing to the print edition.

My former employer, The Baltimore Sun, is publishing the staff obituaries, distinguished from the paid obits, online only this week, with no explanation of the change, though the paper trumpeted for weeks the return of Sloane Brown to cover what passes for society in Baltimore.

Waiting at the Giant on 33rd Street for Covid and flu shots. Made an appointment online yesterday for Walgreens, arrived there today to find they had no record of me and can’t do anything because it’s a third-party scheduler. Not going back there anytime soon.

AI is a desperately mediocre confabulating plagiarism engine designed by tech bros with no talent, who are laying waste to the creative industries and artists livelihoods, and using planet-killing amounts of electricity and water to make the shittiest and most boring simulacrums of human expression.

I am not silently correcting your grammar. If you want your grammar corrected, it will cost you.

From Blake's "Disraeli: "This is the eternal cry of the diehard whether of the Right or the Left--that the way to his party's political salvation is to adhere more rigidly than ever to the very principles on which it has suffered defeat."