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I'm halfway through Horowitz' book 'The Word Is Murder," and I'm loving every minute of it. It's sort of a meta-fictionalized effort on his part, melding real characters in to his fictional one and distorting them enough in service of his exquisite mystery.

I just finished Daisy Pearce's new book and was looking for something a little different before I jump back into the horror lexicon.

He is a wonderful writer. Magpie Murders is on my list as well.

If you need a clever and exceptional TV series, Horowitz created Foyles War that is on Acorn and is awesome.

Open Thread.

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Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery, 1879-1880 #edgardegas #minneapolisinstituteofart

I’ll have Claude look into this tomorrow. It will explain to me what’s going on and we may change something.

NBA reporters should take some time off. It’s almost August. Now if I were a betting man I’d bet against the team the Sixers have cobbled together. Sports teams esp in basketball are not the sum of the parts. It probably won’t gel. They only have one proven solid player in T...

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday responded directly to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s calls for his arrest, accusing the mayor of ‘fomenting hate’ and referring to a video address that Mr. Mamdani made last week as ‘hate speech.'” the New York Times reports. Bloomberg: Netanyahu vows to attend UN as Mamdani says he’s “not […]

“President Donald Trump is set to visit Michigan on Monday to highlight manufacturing and auto industry jobs ahead of the state’s Aug. 4 primary elections,” NewsNation reports.

Someone should write the Occam‘s razor guide to American politics. Probably would be about 20 pages long and irrefutable.

If you need a pick-me-up, Defiance has a pretty good piece up on their website: Data shows Trump is inspiring Democrats to vote — and Republicans to stay home. The president's voter suppression campaign is poised to backfire by mobilizing the political opposition, while de...

Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status.

Key quote from this episode: “And everyone has known this is coming because I have been telling them it’s coming for years and years and years when Google’s traffic, when the amount of traffic you see coming to you from Google goes to zero. What is left of your business? Do you have one?

Do you have an audience? Do you have anything at all? And if Google turns off the economic incentives for all of these people to make new information, what will Google summarize in the AI Overviews?

What will be left? And I don’t think either side of that equation has had a good answer.”

From The Vergecast: You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore, Jul 24, 2026podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

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“North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister denounced calls for denuclearization, describing the country’s nuclear weapons as its ‘ultimate shield,’ state media reported, as Ukraine warned that more North Korean soldiers could join Russia’s war efforts,” Bloomberg reports. South China Morning Post: America’s North Korea strategy needs a dose of reality.