Katie Wilson

@katienotopoulos I wonder why I have not received this email about my Kindle 2nd Generation from December 2010. I am so sad about this news!

This is A NIGHTMARE. Amazon is bricking old Kindles, including my beloved Kindle 5 (with the side buttons). I hate the touch screen versions, I've tried them and I'm always accidentally flipping pages.

@adam_j_walker @LauraHayesDC Difficult to say because I do not search for a new ride at the time that I am leaving on my scheduled ride, so I don’t know what the price would have otherwise been. I know that there is an on-time pickup promise of credit if your ride is >10 min late for airport transfer.

@k_wilson @LauraHayesDC That’s a premium to do so, correct?

Is the steep decline in Uber & Lyft accuracy and reliability happening in other cities beyond DC? If the apps say they will get you a ride in four minutes, as soon as you book it’s 12 minutes and lately not even that has been accurate. Four-minute offers are more like 20 minutes.

@owenslindsay1 The amazing thing about this excerpt is, having started by noting she “sighed deeply,” I can totally hear the whole thing in her voice.

Always listen to Vanessa.

@GraceSpelman have you ever seen a naturalization ceremony? I cry every time.

the space program when we’re not recruiting nazis, national parks, jazz….these are the only things that make me feel any sense of patriotism

@besttrousers @MrRBourne @jdcmedlock some of that robust literature was the basis for awarding a Nobel Prize to Claudia Goldin!

@MrRBourne @jdcmedlock (Which of course people do! There's a robust literature on gender wage gaps, which doesn't particularly rely on controlling on collider variables)

Bad analysis. You should not control for these factors, because they all are downstream of gender on the causal pathway. Think about Mad Men S1. There was no pay gap between men and women when you controlled for gender - because women were prohibited from high paying positions.

@ryangrim I think I missed some things: have any other Rs changed their mind? Or any of the 4 Ds previously against on 3/5? Vote was 219-212. Even setting aside Mace’s unreliability, I don’t understand the vote count here.

Nancy Mace gives Dems the votes to pass the War Powers resolution. Meeks said go talk to Republicans. Prem talked to Mace, I talked to Davidson. The votes are there. If Dems don’t put it on the floor now it’s because they don’t want it to pass now.

@dieworkwear thank you! so informative. i’m fascinated by sporty morphing to high-status. the occasions i can recall my father wearing shirt w collar buttons were v fancy, i thought. mother’s day brunch at grandparents’ country club, e.g. can’t recall ever seeing male friend of my gen in one

It's part of the look. In the early 1900s, John E. Brooks of Brooks Brothers noticed that British polo players wore buttons on their shirt collars to prevent the tips from flying up during play. He found the detail charming, so he sent a version back to his tailors in NYC and asked them to copy it. The style was first put onto pullover shirts around 1905, and then on coat-front shirts made from cotton cheviot (Oxford) some years later. Since Brooks Brothers primarily dressed the upwardly mobile class whose fortunes rose with industrial capitalism (i.e., White Anglo-Saxon Protestants who could trace their lineage back to the Mayflower), their clothes took on a certain social status. And thus, so did their button-down collars, which were worn by New England elites and their children who were sent to private preparatory schools (hence it became part of American prep style, also known as Ivy Style, for how it carried over onto Ivy campuses). For much of the 20th century, the US button-down collar stood for all that is good: casualness, youth, education, trustworthiness, dependability, sport, and professionalism. It was much more casual than its European spread-collar counterparts, owing its rumpled nature to its sporty origins. Mary McCarthy's 1942 short story "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" is about a woman who falls for a stylish executive on a Pullman train. His button-down collar represented a certain kind of mid-century bourgeois professional. For purists, the best versions are unlined, meaning they're made without the fused interlining that goes into most shirt collars to make the fabric "behave." Thus, the more wrinkled and rumpled, the better. Whether it's "good" or "bad" depends on your view of men's tailoring. Americans have historically always embraced a more casual version of the stiff-upper-lip British aesthetic. So instead of the British three-piece suit, Americans embraced the two-piece for day wear. Instead of lace-up shoes, Americans teamed slip-on penny and tassel loafers with tailoring. Instead of the shapely European coats with front darts, Americans wore the dartless sack cut. Everything was a little more casual in its register. And thus, the button-down collar follows in that more democratic spirit.

Robert Mueller was one of the last well-dressed men in Washington. Soft shouldered suits with white button-down collar and foulard ties. Wore his watch on the underside of his wrist, as a holdover from his military training. One of the last to carry that classic American look.

@dieworkwear a question from someone with no knowledge: to my eye, the wrinkles created by the button-down collar are messy and distracting. are they usually seen as classy bc traditional? like Obama’s stiff collar with no buttons looks better to me.

Garrett Graff has written a few profiles on Mueller after spending hundreds of hours with him since the early 2000s. Here are two excerpts about Mueller's clothing views. I set out to find Mueller's tailor years ago. Graff told me that he remembers Mueller wearing RTW Brooks Bros

@emilykmay everything about her journey i’ve come across (unintentionally) has been triggering for me

this is basically what lindy west says and not even as a mom, just a wife. she found another woman to help manage her life with her husband, who just wanders through the world expecting everything to happen for him.

@marthagimbel @mattyglesias I was gonna say! You’re gonna get many women who chime in being, like, I track the credit card points AND I book the flights AND I take out the garbage AND I buy your mother’s birthday present.

@mattyglesias Ahem

@youwouldntpost ME TOO. couldn’t even really talk about it with my bf.

@EmilyGouldNYmag why doesn’t this have ten thousand likes

for the Byrds

I can't recall any other times I've seen any kind of complaint from Randy Clarke, almost validates my nonstop whining these past two weeks.

@BarredinDC our school sent an announcement on its own.

Parents group chat has added a 3rd option: -Mad that the city didn’t have an announcement that schools were open like usual

@BarredinDC I hear that yesterday was worse!

1st time leaving town for Thanksgiving in about 15 years, first time flying in 20. Zero security wait at DCA, though definitely a busy terminal

@DKThomp This inquiry could have garnered a lot more boosting of DC's embattled bars! O.K.P.B., Left Door, Off the Record, also the oyster bars like Hank's and Pearl Dive. Beginning to think those "youth aren't cool they don't drink anymore" surveys are true and not just me.

This is the best martini, and I will not be taking questions

@mattadler81 I was paralleling “green planet fee” with “ambiance.” For sake of clarity: lease, furnishings, dinnerware, utilities, wait staff wages do go on p&l. I agree restaus can/should charge any fees, headlines like this skew focus. Diners benefit from many things not on tab, in or out.

@k_wilson “Ambiance” isn’t a line item on the p&l though. Togo packaging is. Again. I don’t charge fees for it. But i also don’t blame folks who do. Everyone runs the biz as they see fit and consumers support who they want.

The average cost of a paper bag is .40, a container is .35, and a sauce container with a lid is .18 . I'm not advocating for these fees, we don't charge them. However, there is a real extra cost associated with packing food to go…

@mattadler81 A restaurant could also charge “ambiance and service” fees for the costs of the dining area of the restaurant. I’m not sure what the right answer is — dine-in and to-go feel like different products to me — but just noting the differential costs are not only on the takeout side.

You could argue to just raise prices across the board. But when 85% of businesses is dine in and 15% Togo, is raising prices for everything fare? You could just raise prices on Togo food? But that’s basically what this is. Just my 2 cents. I’m sure folks will disagree!

@mattyglesias It was a way to retrofit an explanation of political feeling. imo this relationship was also not accurate bc the disproportionate rise in prices in those specific sectors had been underway for decades, way before folks got so mad.

@mattyglesias in my recollection, pundits began discussing “affordability” in specific sectors (elder and child care, education, health, housing) when the consumer sentiment numbers stopped tracking underlying fundamentals, including the overall inflation rate.