If you are arguing with a librarian, you have already lost.
Back in the bad old days of the last Republican Worst President Ever, the FBI came calling on the public library in my town. They wanted to comb through the library's records because of an alleged terror threat to a local university. However, the feds had neglected to bring along a warrant. The head librarian told them either to get a warrant or to get stuffed. So they cooled their heels until they could comply with the Constitution. The lesson to be learned was not to f*ck around with librarians because you will find out. Let us therefore praise Debra Steidel Wall, the acting archivist of the United States who, on May 10, explained to lawyers in the employ of El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago that they had reached the "…and find out" portion of the proceedings as regards the first batch of documents he had reluctantly surrendered to the National Archives. |
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If you watched the wild ride that unfolded on The Rehearsal, you may have a question or two. Or five. The HBO series sees The Rehearsal's creator, comedian Nathan Fielder, put willing (!) participants through an elaborate practice run for a particularly stressful moment in their lives. For people like Fielder who overthink every social interaction, The Rehearsal resembles what occurs in the safety of a therapist's office. You might even be familiar with it. The Rehearsal's habit of running through a stressful situation step by step is a technique used in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). We talked to Jasmine Dayan, a licensed clinical psychologist and cognitive behavioral therapist from Madison Park Psychological Services, about how The Rehearsalresembles actual therapy. |
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Clarence Thomas wasn't the first Supreme Court justice to speak a native tongue other than English. Felix Frankfurter, appointed to the court by Franklin Roosevelt, was an Austrian Jew born into a long line of rabbis and spoke no English when, at age twelve, he Ellis Islanded into New York City with his family. There's no mention in the historical record as to whether Frankfurter hated himself for growing up speaking German, or whether the experience had so scarred him in childhood that he spent the rest of his days training his tongue to erase his past and his people. But no other member of the high court grew up speaking a language at risk of being forgotten like Clarence Thomas did—the Gullah/Geechee man they once called Boy, who decades later would write what may be the most important thing there is to know about him: "You hate yourself for being part of a group that's gotten the hell kicked out of them." |
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