👻Temperamental🎃Hellhound💀

Drink your tar water.

Obviously, there’s no good reason—apart from very bad American 19th- and 20th century views about sexual pleasure—for our rates of circumcision, but this is just unhinged internet slop.

In Douglas Wilson's disastrous New York Times interview, he simultaneously affirms limited government while prescribing a codification of fundamentalist sexual ethics that would require a vast statist apparatus to police and enforce. Incoherent.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
—Hannah Arendt, possibly on Ross Douthat

“Asshole with a thin leftist veneer” is what a substantial number of people want, because they don’t actually want to make the world better, they want to feel they’re part of a club and that their resentment of life and desire for someone to tell them how to think is justified.

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

I’m a bad Catholic in a thousand ways, but nothing terrifies and shames me more than “I was hungry and you did not…”

The Pope is talking about the Christian duty to the poor.
Douthat is musing about whether slavery is consistent with Christ’s message.
Choose your Church.

We are doing politics with version of America in our heads that doesn’t really exist—or, at lest, not fully.

Trump’s portrayal of American cities as war zones is, of course, not based in reality. But neither is the persistent belief among many we have not already hurtled into authoritarianism.

Do you want to capture that spirit, though?

There's someone right behind you!

There are a few notable historical awards, but certainly after Kissinger (if not earlier), it can't really count for much,

Granted, Mr Gibson’s catechesis may have been different, but I think we’re only allowed the one Jesus.

I’ll be there cheering on your excellence with the rest of the fans.

I don’t teach Tuesdays, so that’s perfect for me!

Tell me where and when and I’m there with pompoms.

I would say that grabbing people off the streets and transporting them into slavery, corruption on an unimaginable scale, and destroying the rights of speech and assembly are more evil.

But forbidding Congress to appropriate funds and letting the president raise unlimited taxes is more fundamental.

What does any of that have to do with language acquisition, Professor Pinker?

Old billionaires can’t resist her charms.

People think the stroke Phineas–Gaged Fetterman.
There’s no actual evidence Gage’s personality changed, at all.
There’s even less, somehow, that Fetterman’s did.

Not even on The Thick Of It

I think we started 2, but we abandoned the mess.

“wandered” but they also wondered some things

Well, hello, Mr Damon.

Reminds me of the people behind us at Angels In America (Pt I) who just wondered in unaware of the play.

Frankly, I think Beckett would find this hilarious.

Screenshot of David Simon interview SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

I like a cocktail wiener.

There’s something morbidly fascinating in Ngo‘s all-consuming hunger for approval from people who hate every aspect of his identity and him as an individual.