Good advice

Today's New York Times

Eat Your Beans

To the Editor:

Regarding your series What to Eat on a Burning Planet: Mother Earth is, indeed, on fire, and calling our current situation a climate crisis is not hyperbole. I am thrilled to see this conversation elevated in The Times, since the need to alter our food choices is growing greater by the day.

Our system of cycling multiple pounds of plant foods through an animal to produce a pound of chicken, beef or pork, rather than simply eating the plants directly, greatly increases our carbon footprint.

The latest installment, “Seriously, You Should Eat More Beans,” by Bee Wilson (Opinion guest essay, Aug. 18), does a wonderful job of introducing readers to some of the healthiest, most protein-packed, most delicious and most inexpensive foods available.

Whether you are swapping lentils for lamb, pintos for pork, chickpeas for chicken or teriyaki tofu for tenderloin, let’s all strive to eat more beans and fewer beings.

Stewart David

Las Cruces, N.M.

Trump "making shit up"

Kevin Drum:

Here is Donald Trump in North Carolina yesterday:

Remember when Biden sent Kamala to Europe to stop the war in Ukraine. She met with Putin, and then three days later, he attacked....She met with Putin to tell him, "Don’t do it." And three days later he attacked.

Once again we have a head scratcher. This is not the usual kind of falsehood, which has some small kernel of truth deep down. It's got nothing. Harris didn't meet with Putin and didn't tell him "Don't do it." End of story. It just flat didn't happen, and neither did anything else even remotely close.

So where did Trump get it? I suppose it was the same place where he discovered that Harris only recently started identifying as Black. Or that Harris's huge crowds were an AI invention. Or that a technical and long-planned annual revision of employment figures was really Joe Biden "fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America."

He's just literally making stuff up these days based (apparently) on the unhinged Twitter posts that he inhales every night. 

He is really and truly losing it in the face of a campaign he doesn't know how to fight.

Kamala’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Points the Way to a Post-MAGA America.

See also Project 2025.