Janna Levin is an academic scientist who probably had to check out anyone who claimed to be a potential source of funding.

Treaty obligations, the “supreme law of the land,” according to the Constitution, and invasions don’t mix. The Constitution also gives Congress a distinct role.

Would the IgNobel Prize do?

I recently learned the most useful euphemism: guano gala. It means exactly the same thing as the expression you used, and has its own alliteration, but it sounds soooooo much more refined.

People now often label their thing “Americana” to distance themselves from the stuff to which you refer, just as people once called themselves “chemists” to signal that they were an alternative to alchemists.

I trust you have other plans for the 18th.

I recently learned a most useful euphemism; it even has is own alliteration: guano gala.

One joke I’ve heard is that if someone said he was inviting comparisons with Neville Chamberlain, he’d be proud to be equated with the dude who played for the 76ers and Lakers.

How often did an MLS league match draw 6,100 spectators, even in its early years ?

How does the highest NWSL attendance figure compare to the lowest MLS number for that period?

Interestingly, Vance is the one person Trump cannot fire, as he received a separate nod from the Electoral College. However, the one can freeze the other out of a meaningful role.

Allen assumes that people who enter politics actually intend to do the work that governing requires.

Cute comment, but under relevant U.S. law, Vance is the one person Trump can’t fire. Someone would have to bribe Vance to abdicate and create a vacancy for Ivanka or anyone else.

That would be considered unseasonably cool for that location on that date today. How about then?

And what do you conclude from Auckland FC’s performance? Maybe there just isn’t much need for more domestic leagues in the top tier, but a promising niche just below.

Andrew Thayer, an Episcopal priest, has an essay in the NYT in which he argues that Pilate was the Trump-like figure, representing just what Jesus opposed. Further, he said that Jesus was leading a protest march, and that palm branches were recognized as symbols of protest in that time and place.

Maybe they didn’t want the association with April Fool’s Day.