| The affordable, diver-inspired timepiece keeps selling out. Get one while you can. | If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser. | | | | | The Elusive, Ultra-Stylish Q Timex Watch Is Finally Back (Again) | | Timex was founded way back in 1854, which means the brand has a whole lot of history to work with. And for the past couple of years, the Connecticut-based company has been pushing hard to show watch fans just how valuable those extensive archives can be, reissuing classic timepieces and letting vintage designs inspire new ones. Read More | | | | | | | | | Elijah Cummings Was a Winter Soldier of the First Rank | | Upon hearing the news of Rep. Elijah Cummings' passing Thursday morning, the first thing I thought of was the beginning of the eulogy that the late Robin Williams delivered for rock promoter Bill Graham: "Bill's dead and Strom Thurmond doesn't even have a cold?" Read More | | | | | | | | | The President* Is at Least Half-Mad. It's Time to Take the Car Keys. | | That El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago is unfit to be president* is not worthy of debate; he was unfit to be president* the day he was born. That he is a grifter and a wastrel and a profiteer has been demonstrated over and over again, most recently by ProPublica, which on Wednesday published a whopper based on some portions of the president*'s tax returns that ProPublica has obtained. (It is the high-end real estate equivalent of a used-car dealer who turns back odometers.) But there is one more thing that is often whispered about but rarely said out loud. Read More | | | | | | | | | Elijah Cummings Always Knew Our Time Is Short. Just Look at His First Speech on the House Floor. | | In the end, we only have a minute. Nobody knew that better than Elijah Cummings, the towering chairman of the House Oversight Committee who died overnight at the age of 68. Despite many of today's headlines, the Baltimore congressman was more than some character in Donald Trump's dark and dangerous American story. In 1962, the Baltimore Sun tells us, he was part of a group of African-American kids who sought to integrate the Riverside Park pool in South Baltimore, only to be greeted by white mobs who taunted them and threw rocks. But we are all victims of time's ruthless circumstances, and when the histories are written—assuming we make it that far—Cummings' legacy will be intertwined with the half-mad president who held office at the minute he took the helm of a powerful congressional committee. In that minute, after all, Cummings was called on by God or history or fate to defend the American republic. Read More | | | | | | | | Follow Us | | | | Unsubscribe Privacy Notice | | esquire.com ©2019 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019 | | | | | | |
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