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ghosts are manifestations of our brains trying to build a model of (momentary) reality with too few data.

That said, me too.

This is what you get when incompetence meets ignorance and tips the hat to arrogance James B.

Lucian Truscott is worth paying on Substack.

luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Guessing Summers wasn’t greeted cordially by his students this week

imo the part of the bird that’s worth eating, really (aside from soup)

I couldn’t make myself read more than the beginning of that Texas case dissent, so I only learned about his Soros fixation from others. Aside from the antisemitic essence, the number of un-evidenced assertions is unprecedented and deeply problematic for a sitting *judge,* isn’t it? I mean, wow.

It is incumbent upon this entire community to make sure that Phil gets his “DAMMITPHIL” every day—and upon Phil to deserve it.

“Tan Misty” doesn’t really work, I have to say

Even though I’m old and have been an atheist for a half-century I still find it disquieting to be forced to the conclusion that the Christianity I was raised in isn’t just stupid, it is (or at least is *now*) actively evil.

They must think the Sermon on the Mount is apocryphal.

Opinion | How to Utterly Miss the Point of the Jeffrey Epstein Story

The article I've been wanting to write.

the four Marx brothers

Well, that’s *sort of* faked. But McCarthy has mad skills.

OK Andrew McCarthy is maybe the one person I know of who could pull this off.

That has to be *incredibly* carefully and precisely set up; imagine knowing the skydiver’s trajectory accurately enough to set up your solar telescope. Or faked.

Sad news.

That said, and I mean no disrespect, I re-posted this mainly because apparently “Nigersaurus taqueti” had a gigantic toenail clipper for a jaw.

worth remembering that Trump could just release the files, no need for Congressional action.

I know it's hardly the top priority, but could is there any way we could add "mandatory headphone jack on every smartphone" to the Woke 2 agenda?

There are a lot of prominent people who really should STFU, but no one should STFU more than this guy.

That there was a time when I liked him is embarrassing.

ew.

that is sad

...and for her turgid prose. Maybe rename the Bulwer-Lytton prize after her.

acknowledging other humans

vs.

solipsism / narcissism

which do you choose?

holy shit that’s disgusting

It’s distilled narcissism in the form of a book

looking forward to entire genre of Nuzzi parodies

uh, emphatically yes

“peril” — a color attached to that, possibly/

a)

Oh christ I passed it a quarter-century ago

i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.