@thisoldhaus.bsky.social
Retired newspaper guy. History, politics, and legal-news nerd. I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of serotonin.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
17.11.2025 01:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hoping Ken White picks BigFactHat next
17.11.2025 01:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I used to see them in western Michigan when I lived there.
16.11.2025 22:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yep. The headlines are often way worse than the stories.
16.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0What’s radio, Tom?
16.11.2025 17:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Heartburn.
16.11.2025 15:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She wants to be a senator.
16.11.2025 15:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0OPERATION THE VIAGRA STOPPED WORKING
16.11.2025 03:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I remember liking the book better than the movie (both experienced in the '80s).
16.11.2025 03:23 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
Get on that.
16.11.2025 03:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Operation Double Bathtub
16.11.2025 02:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Live at El Mocambo)
youtu.be/KC5H9P4F5Uk
oh hell yes
16.11.2025 01:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I mean, the hot bed are being fueled, so why not?
16.11.2025 01:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Never grew fond of the blind/catchphrase thing (too much hunting for the right phrase), but then my username sums up my sensibility. I’ve been reading history since they used Roman numerals for endnotes, dadgummit.
Oh well, as you say, everyone has gout. Good essay, as ever.
🎶 Such a cold finger
15.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For a second I thought this was satire
15.11.2025 19:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
15.11.2025 02:05 — 👍 20052 🔁 5838 💬 592 📌 360About halfway through, I’m at “seems all right so far, not great but not awful, withholding judgment … but damn the acting is good.”
15.11.2025 04:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ken Burns made a documentary about Americans who declared "No kings!" and rose up against the military occupation of their cities. What could possibly be polarizing about that? [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/a...
14.11.2025 12:52 — 👍 354 🔁 78 💬 0 📌 0I don’t even have to look up who he’s talking about.
15.11.2025 01:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bubba, bubba, toil and trouble
15.11.2025 01:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sounds like he’s doing his damnedest to guarantee a blue tsunami in 2026 before the plane lands.
15.11.2025 01:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01. Chewing broken glass
2. Falling from a second-story balcony
3. Being robbed at gunpoint at the ATM
4. Reading the Nuzzi-Junior story
You decide!
In a life with limited hours to read things, this story tops the skippable list.
14.11.2025 21:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not if you confuse this with life
14.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But we won't get fooled again.
13.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Seems innocent.
12.11.2025 23:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
