In the New Yorker...

[southendmd]

As for JD's disastrous visits, he's coming here to Minneapolis tomorrow (shudder). Hopefully it will be a disaster because ICE mistakenly smashes his car windows, throws him to the pavement, zip-ties his wrists and drags him off.

I'd pay to see that!

[serious crayons]

His wife is the child of Indian immigrants, after all.

Yup, and that could be enough to get her detained in Minneapolis if she weren't riding in the vice president's motorcade.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Yup, and that could be enough to get her detained in Minneapolis if she weren't riding in the vice president's motorcade.

Wouldn't it be funny if they turned out to be undocumented?

[Front-Ranger]

According to her bio, Usha was born in the U.S. but her parents were from India.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I just finished the story about the search-and-rescue guys in Great Smoky Mountain National Park (Jan. 19) It was long, or long-ish, but not too long for me.

Somebody should do a TV show about these guys, or based on, or inspired by these guys.

[Front-Ranger]

Thanks for mentioning that article, I'm reading it now!

[Jeff Wrangler]

I've begun reading Dexter Filkins' profile of Marco Rubio in the Jan. 19 issue. I mention this because I want to call attention to the second paragraph on page 26. The direct quotations in that paragraph are capitalized--or not capitalized--the way I was taught to do it, and the way I still feel is correct. Here's an example from that paragraph.

"Trump boasted of 'an assault like people have not seen since World War Two,' and said, 'We're a respected country again. ...'"

The first quotation in that sentence is not a complete sentence, so "an" is not capitalized. The second quotation is a complete sentence, so "We're" is capitalized.

[serious crayons]

Yes, that's how I would do it, too.