The New Coffee Room

The only connection I see here to the right wing is the biker veering right while the pickup makes a right turn. My instinct would be to veer left away from the turning truck although maybe that’s just the lib outlook.

I once sat near him at a wedding of a mutual acquaintance. The guy is built like a tank.

Also erdogan is pissed

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/turkey-blocks-xs-grok-chatbot-alleged-insults-erdogan-2025-07-09/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/arts/music/the-hunt-for-a-316-year-old-stradivarius-stolen-in-the-fog-of-war.html

after reading the lady in gold

(andf of course seeing the painting at the Neue Galerie) and understanding how hard it is to today to recover lost nazi loot, another aspect of modern antisemitism, I wonder if another Jewish family will start the legal battle to recover the strad.

time will tell

if they start an airline like emirates, im all for it

The comments are pretty funny but I guess this one was kinda the most direct.

Le tour. That time of year again

As Jon would say….jesus

no real thoughts on this, except that in the short looping video on the website, the grey haired gent that appears for a second riding in the "car" looks remarkably like the israeli politican yair lapid

last nights dinner, was carpaccio dressed with olive oil and arugula, stuffed grapevine leaves, (made by a druze woman who sells her stuff at the market), some whole grain bread, and a bottle of prosecco. nothing particularly american i must say, but a nice meal anyway. happy the war is over for now. alaska in two weeks.

may her memory be a blessing, especially the good memories when she was cognitive...., take comfort in those and not the difficult ones at the end

In my family ( meaning my sibs) Its been almost comical how they never let me forget that I got lost twice. Once at sea world in Florida at ge 5 where my mother thought I fell into a shark tank, I don’t know how long I was missing but I was found at some point. Then at age 7 when I was taught if I get lost to tell a policeman (I obviously wandered a lot as a kid..still do, I think) I got lost at jfk in what was then the international arrivals hall, and me being the smart one approached someone in a uniform thinking it’s a policemen an (later I figured it out that he was a cleaning janitor) who took me to the info stand and soon heard over the PA will the parents of bachophile please come get their kid (that would never happen now, no public calls of names) and I was found.
My sibs still remind me and it’s been 60 years.

So…another historic thread will start to wind down…

one of the great impressionist paintings in the art institute of chicago, really an amazing museum.

Snorkeling?

Well it was time to wake up anyway

I thought that was the robot in lost in space

I think two tanks is standard operating procedure for anyone vaguely interested in ritual animal sacrifice