Mostly True
> “You know, the older you get, the younger you want to be.” —John le Carré https://t.co/En6xm1UtyW — The Paris Review (@parisreview) November 14, 2017 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/930480949657198592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
Um, no
> Is this therapy robot better than a real cat? pic.twitter.com/EKolplMjYn [https://t.co/EKolplMjYn] — The Verge (@verge) November 11, 2017 [https://twitter.com/verge/status/929428531112689664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
Sounds like trouble
> Inside the candy industry’s campaign to convince us chocolate is a health food https://t.co/YVW1byivTj pic.twitter.com/g2cv2vf2VZ [https://t.co/g2cv2vf2VZ] — Vox (@voxdotcom) October 18, 2017 [https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/920640630308724736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] From the article: So is chocolate good for…
Finger...huh?
> Working on my @adobemax [https://twitter.com/adobemax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] talk and can't wait to teach my audience my favorite German word that doesn't seem to be translatable in English: pic.twitter.com/hnKST8GX6c [https://t.co/hnKST8GX6c] — Tina Roth Eisenberg (@swissmiss) October…
Wow
> Thoreau on October, when “man is ripe... pervaded by his genius...” (Thx @levistahl [https://twitter.com/levistahl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]) pic.twitter.com/RcxhA0xC6t [https://t.co/RcxhA0xC6t] — Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) October 2, 2017 [https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/914833882415058946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] October has always been…
A sad truth
My local NPR station has decided, ill-advisedly in my opinion, to cancel regular broadcsts of The Writers Almanac [https://writersalmanac.org] and Science Friday [https://www.sciencefriday.com]. Here's one reader reaction that might easily serve as a comment on the previous post. > @wamu885 [https://twitter.com/…
When truth is stranger than fiction
> The Senate Finance Committee's #GrahamCassidy [https://twitter.com/hashtag/GrahamCassidy?src=hash] hearing has been postponed so that those directly impacted by the bill can be ejected. pic.twitter.com/pULTDYkuce [https://t.co/pULTDYkuce] — Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) September 25, 2017 [https://twitter.com/MarkWarner/status/912380461690818565]…
"Underused insults"
Dotard and rocket man received some interest and currency this week after President Trump's ill-tempered address to the United Nations. Both were noted in the Oxford Words Weekly Word Watch [http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/09/weekly-word-watch-rocket-man-wildplassen/?__prclt=OB6y44kR] . But the Washington Post topped that with a guide…