The New Yorker takes a look at Senator Chuck Hagel (R, Nebraska), a man who, in a better world with a more rational, modern, mainstream Republican party — one that wouldn’t cater to the extreme right — would be their leader.
Hagel has not officially endorsed either candidate for president.
Since the Brookline post office can’t seem to get their shit together and deliver our mail in a timely and orderly fashion, I have to read The New Yorker online most of the time now. Frankly, it’s rather annoying. I paid for a subscription but haven’t received an issue in almost three weeks. And I know no one is stealing them because the people that live in my building (read: dumb bitches) only subscribe to celebrity gossip magazines and Crate and Barrel catalogues.
We’ve been having issues with our mail for quite some time. It started last summer when our mailman lost the key to our lobby door. (To this day our landlord, The Hamilton Company, still hasn’t taken action to rectify that issue.) Without access to the mailboxes, the mailman just leaves the mail on the front steps of our building for us to sort through ourselves. The mailman still doesn’t have a key but now our front door is broken and doesn’t lock (another issue The Hamilton Company hasn’t taken care of) but even with building access the mailman seems to only deliver mail two or three times a week. We’ll go days without mail and then one day open up the mailbox to find everything jammed and crumpled up inside. My Netflix envelopes haven’t been the same since. Magazines don’t fit in the mailbox so the mailman just drops them in the church pew magazine rack with all of the junk mail, and let me tell you, sorting through all that crap is a real treat. The other day, there was a spider.
Anywho, back to the original point of this post….
The New Yorker has a little piece by Simon Rich that’s quite entertaining: What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was…
Did you know that the United States Postal Service has no official motto? It’s true! The famous mantra, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” appears in the works of Herodotus and describes the expedition of the Greeks against the Persians under Cyrus, about 500 B.C. The Persians operated a system of mounted postal couriers, and the sentence describes the fidelity with which their work was done.
Now you know…
