I don’t understand.

Fireworks echo militarized killing, as if it needed further celebration, as if it needed further repetition, as if it needed further legitimation. Congress voted to turn immigration cops into the US Gestapo, and everywhere there’s fireworks.

I used to say this whenever I said something really weird about philosophy (my PhD field). Then I started saying it about student loan default. "What are they going to do, repo my degree?"

My summer reading list includes Finnegans Wake, To the Lighthouse, Cruising Utopia, and several other books that can’t possibly exist.

Man on ice with winter coat pleading with penguins

Man in tuxedo with hand outstretched to penguin giving thanks

US Envoys arrived today and are pleading with our leaders to refrain from imposing retaliatory tariffs. We initially denied their pleas until their ambassador returned wearing a suit and thanked us for existing.

I'm wondering where my $100 million check from George Soros is.

9 April
Today's unholiday is
Tonsilmas

31 March
Today's unholiday is
Feast Day of Bob

"Seemingly gleeful cruelty has been a hallmark of DOGE’s operations...It's hard to escape the sense that DOGE staffers are actually enjoying this. And why not? We’re mostly talking about poorly socialized young men suddenly given the power to ruin other people’s lives..."

Paul Krugman

30 March
Today's unholiday is
Splaturday

26 March
Today's unholiday is
Festival of Misplaced Priorities

25 March
Today's unholiday is
Scrapple Monday

24 March
Today's unholiday is
Facepalm Sunday

Canadian 'American Pie' Star Speaks Out After She Was Detained By ICE For 12 Days This is very alarming.

This is incredibly alarming.

23 March
Today's unholiday is
Another Think/Thing

Columbia? Really? So what else is new?

22 March
Today's unholiday is
Solemnity of 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘮 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘵.
Having the nagging feeling all day that she had left her oven on, when they got home, Gloria discovered that in fact she had. But all was well.

18 March
Today's unholiday is
Festival of Brief Moment of Respite

No one in my life right now takes this role, which is a shame, because I’d love to say to somebody:

“Wow, you sure can be a mother hen, when you’re concerned one of your ducklings has strayed too close to the hangman’s noose.”

One of those days.
I shall now do the responsible thing and read Beckett in bed.

I like my coffee like…

I like my sex: dark, roasty, and in a mug.

25 February
Today's unholiday is
Feast of Ecgfrith, Patron of Intramurals

Inclined plane. Love it so much I sleep on one.

“To be clear, the opposite of welcoming diversity is supporting segregation. The opposite of moving toward equity is hoarding resources. The opposite of being more inclusive is exclusion.”

21 February
Today's unholiday is
Feast of Patrick, Patron of 1960s R&B Girl Groups, Except the Supremes

Empire of Normality 'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see t...

Everybody should read this book.

www.plutobooks.com/978074534866...

18 February
Today's unholiday is
Tom Waits for No Man

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