Desiree Cooper pondered her grandson’s fierce attachment to her daughter: “Born breech, he experienced in no way supposed to depart his mother. His appreciate for her was umbilical.” (Julie E. Fox, Wilmette, Unwell., and Hilary Koreeda, Fairfield, Conn., amongst other folks)
Tim Sultan reviewed the reserve “Last Contact at Coogan’s,” by Jon Michaud, about a storied haunt in the Washington Heights community of Manhattan: “We may master that so-and-so satisfied his husband or wife at Coogan’s, or this sort of and this kind of political disagreement was brokered in excess of corned beef, but we hardly ever master what will make one individual tick, and an additional a ticking time bomb — the principal social motives to expend time in a bar.” (Pete Browne, Kansas Metropolis, Mo.)
And Bret Stephens cringed at the cowardice of Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley & Co.: “You get the perception that most of these Republican Lilliputians are running to be Trump’s veep pick or his pet rock. Or they are trying to ingratiate on their own with Trump’s foundation and to existing by themselves as a a bit additional responsible version of the 45th president, which is like striving to offer a fentanyl addict on the deserves of pot gummies.” (Paul Kirschenfeld, Hilton Head, S.C., and Bob Jacobson, Mt. Juliet, Tenn., among lots of other individuals)
And what of all individuals packing containers in a Mar-a-Lago lavatory? In The Washington Article, Geraldine DeRuiter grappled with the loo’s loopily luxe décor: “The chandelier hanging in Trump’s rest room was his dynasty in a microcosm: a thing opulent and gaudy, a caricature of prosperity that screamed for our focus, though hoping we would not recognize any most likely filthy deeds going on below.” (Bob Meadow, Los Angeles, and Rudy Brynolfson, Minneapolis)
Last but not least, in Salon, Melanie McFarland reflected on the futility of Chris Licht’s makes an attempt, through his limited-lived stint at the helm of CNN, to get Republican politicians and viewers to return to the network: “You may well as perfectly summon Voyager 1 again from deep room by pointing your Tv remote at the sky and urgent any downward-pointing arrow.” (Carolyn Krouse, Manhattan)
