Clinical case of advanced Capgras syndrome.

It will be K-Pop for the same reason this year was Bad Bunny: capitalism. NFL is eager to move into Asian markets, just as it’s eager to make greater gains in Latin American markets. Plus next year’s SB is in LA, which has a large Korean community. Makes too much sense not to happen.

True sports guy doomerism are the dudes who keep interrupting a game shouting things like, “that was a hold!” and complaining their team didn’t win because of the refs.

the culture war has assigned these scandals to opposing political teams but the epstein files and russiagate are the same story

This could describe the us during the Cold War and war on terror. Now we’re in the “the enemy is us” phase.

Black Sunday II: The ICE Bowl

Right, she went to Paris later because of visa issues, I think

Yeah, she said screw this and left for France to start her first band.

Chrissie Hynde was a freshman at Kent State at the time and also was on the quad during the shooting — one of her friends was shot and killed.

Find and read Erik Hedegaard’s brilliant profile of JCM focusing on his insane smoking addiction —he smokes in the shower! Written in the 90s. Appeared in a collection of great magazine stories that somehow got killed. (Tobacco ads played a role here.)

You should read Ian McEwan’s latest, the dystopian climate novel What We Can Know. It’s told largely from the perspective of those selfsame future historians.

And the good Claritin OTC

That was Nepal

The oil companies realize it will cost hundreds of *billions* to get VZ infrastructure up to speed and create usable crude there, and that this will all take at least 10 years to make happen, right?

Here to defend OBAA’s needle drops. I *loathe* Steely Dan, but that song worked perfectly in the martial arts training scene. And “AG” like you said was spot-on (and was a subversive meta nod to the use of it by J Demme, one of PTA’s favorite filmmakers).

Does Prince have 50k troops at his disposal? Because that’s what will be needed to police a country twice the size of California.

U.S. Ran a War Game on Ousting Maduro. Venezuela Fell Into Chaos.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

Gift link?

Really? That’s a low bar. Dylan alone wrote at least four: Like a Rolling Stone, Hurricane, It’s Alright Ma, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall…

Moby at work and play on this snowy am

In normal times I wouldn’t suggest this, but right now Stephen Colbert checks all the boxes. And he’s from SC. Just saying.

This is an actual breaking bad episode, in which Saul calls out the fraudulent cover up in the real estate listing and gets Jesse the house for nothing.

On the pleasures of hating duke sports (esp basketball): Highly recommend Will Blythe’s fantastic book To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever.

Please someone find out who owns the house in Malibu where she is living. Rent has to be at least $20k/month. Someone who is not her is covering that—probably the owner of the house. Suspect it belongs to RFKjr. Don’t know why NYT didn’t look this up for its profile.

Gen X man here. This topic is v much worth exploring. The guys I know from high school and college who’ve gone MAGA were, largely but not exclusively, targets of bullying.

Charlie Brown, here comes midnight, with the dead moon in its jaws

Yeah, NA beer is for non-alcoholics.

FYI: NA beer is *not* alcohol-free (most have about 0.5%), so still not great for certain meds.

FACT CHECK: TRUE

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