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A Week of Indignity

Monday: Let's play "spot the bigot," with Matt Yglesias

Tuesday: Putting the “O” in “Omerta”

Wednesday: Lost & Found in America

Thursday: MR WRONG: Touching the Face of God

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WEATHER REVIEWS

New York City, August 10, 2023

★ Morning arrived with a half-measure of daylight, leaving the sense that nothing had properly begun. After a long, dull prelude, an open umbrella appeared in a passerby's hand a little after 1, and the rain began making its way through the gaps in the tree canopies to spot the sidewalk. That shower passed, leaving things less than saturated, and then another arrived in earnest. Now a figure standing outside under an umbrella had darker blue creeping up the calves of their blue capri pants. When the downpour was over, a nearly invisible rain kept going, just heavy enough to be impossible to ignore.

VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS DEP’T.

Stewart’s in Schroon Lake, NY

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INDIGNITY MORNING PODCAST

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 127: Unmatched power in the stars.

Tom Scocca • Aug 11, 2023

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SANDWICH RECIPES DEP’T.

WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS for the assembly of select sandwiches from "Dame Curtsey's" Book of Recipes, by Ellye Howell Glover, Author of “Dame Curtsey’s” Book of Novel Entertainments, etc. Published in 1909, this book is in the Public Domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.

Cocoanut Sandwiches
GRATE one cocoanut, which ought to yield about two cupfuls of fine white shreds. Add half a cupful of chopped walnut meats, two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, a quarter of a cupful of sugar, and one-third cupful of cream. Mix well and spread between folds of buttered white bread.

Nut and Fig Sandwiches
ONE-HALF pound of figs, wash, chop fine, and boil in a little water. When cold mix with nut meats finely chopped. Spread on white bread.

Irish Sandwiches
BANANAS sliced thin, dipped in maraschino, rum, or lemon juice. Place between thin buttered slices of white bread. To be served with tea.

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