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Jim Walters
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His Most Eminent Majesty, Lord Viceroy of The Holy Walterian Empire and Annually Overlooked Sexiest Man of the Year ... also a retired @LATimes editor, who is locally world famous in Long Beach, Calif., and New London, Ohio.
POP QUIZ, L.A.

Can you ID the building in this photo from today's @NYTimes.com homepage?
December 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Puzzle #919
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NAME O' THE DAY
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Meanwhile, in Texas ...
December 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
They voted Trump THREE TIMES!
December 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Because they need a place for their feet. You're welcome.
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Wordle 1,632 3/6

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Puzzle #910
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NAME O' THE DAY*
E. Pluribus Unum Medsker, who married Cleone "Lone" Zelotes Allen Rush in 1911

*Gosport Cemetery, Gosport, #Indiana
December 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Bernie, obviously, hasn't run this one by the White House.
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
That's what they voted for, again and again.
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
And yet, this is what they voted for in '16, '20 and '24.
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I remember mowing my aunt and uncle's front yard in Pomona and then taking a half-hour break to catch my breath before mowing the back.

Who in the hell wants to go back to this?
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Puzzle #906
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NAME O' THE DAY
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
IN CASE YOU FORGOT ...
Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
HEDS UP
Back in the day, #headlines were crammed atop front pages. Why? Because a hefty amount of #newspaper sales were out of streetcorner boxes, with just the top of Page One showing.

Heds were lined up like ... tombstones. Hence the #newsroom term "tombstone heds." #Journalism #Newspapers
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
AH, THE GOOD OLD DAYS
... of first-term #Trump. (And bonus points for anyone who can remember which calamity this one was.)
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NAMES O' THE DAY*
#Twins Oscar Oliver Over, left, and Oliver Oscar Over of Council Bluffs--whose father was Oliver Oscar Over Sr.--whose father was Oscar Oliver Over. The twins and their father eventually founded the law firm of Over & Over & Over.

*From the Des Moines #Iowa Register, Sept. 2, 1946
October 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
COMPARE AND CONTRAST

I think it's safe to say yesterday's #NoKings attracted larger crowds than Trump's inaugurations. Combined.
October 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
From one of yesterday's protests ...
October 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
COMPARE AND CONTRAST
"Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! ... All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
October 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
There was an aluminum siding company in Cleveland in the 1970s that had a jingle that ended with GArfield 1-2323. It's still in business today. With the same phone number.
October 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
OBIT
Lear: The #Dog That Captivated #Cincinnati

(From the #Boston Christian Register of July 25, 1846)
October 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
MASS SHOOTING O' THE DAY
At least four dead, a dozen wounded during small #Mississippi town's homecoming weekend.

#MassShooting #Guns

www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...
October 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Looks like they got what they voted for ... AGAIN!
September 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Sport Model Higginbotham, 8-year-old son of Wade and Mattie, of Lake City #Florida

*From 1950 US Census, Columbia County, Enumeration District 12-18, Sheet 21
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hoosiers, losers
September 23, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'd say it's a safe bet.
September 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM