In the [1858] Lincoln-Douglas debate — the nation-fracturing issue was slavery — Abraham Lincoln, with nine spare words, showed how to at least try to ease social frictions by forgoing the pleasure of self-congratulation. He said of Southerners: “They are just what we would be in their situation."

See beyond spying with drones. "This abuse in sports is so common that the triple Olympic gold medal winner Nancy Hogshead, who dedicated her career to cleaning up sports, says, “Not every coach is a pedophile, but every pedophile wants to be a coach.”

"[Booker Prize winner Anne] Enright would call O’Brien “the first Irish woman ever to have sex. For some decades, indeed, she was the only Irish woman to have had sex — the rest just had children.”

'Thanks' for this "W" & Donald & Dick. Oh I forgot: You were only after the oil, Dick, and you got that for yourself and your kind. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/world/middleeast/iran-iraq-hamas-houthis.html