Mediocre Mycroft

At some point, the alliance between tech eugenicists and trad farmer types will result in someone describing what they do as "Mindsteading".

Crazy that this many decades later, the balance of which participant in the Chomsky-Foucault debate was more on board with pedophilia has undergone a wild swing.

It bears remembering that the opposite of performing something is not performing it.

The American left has precisely zero purchase on US foreign policy at the moment. I can't imagine Iranians would care in the slightest how they feel about anything.

This was generally the case, although he did make errant shitty comments about actresses' bodies from time to time (his review of I Am Curious: Yellow was heavily about how he found it unsexy, partially because Lena Nyman was "pudgy").

Like, clergy sexual abuse and the associated conspiracy to cover it up is absolutely illegal. And with churches using member funds licentiously, my impression is that parishioners are generally approving. If not, it's an issue for them to resolve internally.

I'm not on board with the antisocial characterization, but the tax status isn't going to shift those incentives at all.

Things like the fraud and conspiracy you're describing should be enforced through the criminal code.

Evangelical pastors famously view homosexuality as a slippery slope issue.

Using Uber for the first time in a few years, and boy, it has turned into even shittier scam app than it was.

That's the Chicago way.

I know it's because they're hacks, but I can't get past producing a video self-satisfiedly announcing that you went through the bare-minimum research involved in a profile piece.

All social mobility was downward and enforced by the constant threat of death squads.

Umbrellas still turn inside out at the slightest of breezes.

The now-quaint first two seasons of The Simpsons were frequently cited as evidence that civilization was collapsing.

The incredible irony of "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

The incredible irony of "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

The incredible irony of "Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Even Marx predicated this sort of political involvement on a specific kind of class consciousness that had to be actively constructed.

"Robespierre opened his eyes...his eyes again opened; caught the bloody axe. Samson wrenched the coat off him; wrenched the dirty linen from his jaw: the jaw fell powerless, there burst from him a cry; — hideous to hear and see. Samson, thou canst not be too quick!" - Thomas Carlyle

What happens when an unstoppable Masterful Gambit meets an immovable Art of the Deal.

What happens when an unstoppable Masterful Gambit meets an immovable Art of the Deal.

The thing about airline pilots suggests this is cribbed from H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (specifically the part that was supposed to be portraying a new dark age).

I look forward to whatever life development—be it retirement, death, or incapacitating cranial trauma—that means I never have to encounter the word "visibility" again.

Our best chance of saving democracy seems to be boosting goldbrickers to positions of power.

The new pope very possibly has first-hand opinions on the early days of the House music scene.

Imagine it, joining one of the oldest, most tradition-bound faiths on the planet (which took 400 years to change its view on Galileo), and it immediately reshapes its identity around hating you.

A new schism is upon us.

Chicagoans now lead the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East. One of us should move to Canterbury to seize power over the Anglican Communion post haste.

The Patriarch of the Assyrian Church is also from Chicago. There is no stopping it.