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While it wasn't as valuable to me as someone brought up in the milieu, I think the primary value of Talia Lavin's recent book on the evangelical right is that it desperately and effectively makes the case that we should actually believe and take very seriously the beliefs the right affirms.

I know things get lost in the churn, but it really is truly funny that Trump goes around openly demonstrating that he thinks the many dementia tests he takes are aptitude tests, and then brags about passing them even though he found them very difficult.

That's like, VERY funny.

Yeah, growing up in South Texas, we would routinely take shopping trips and you would just walk back and forth. My dad and I did a Big Bend camping trip and there was a town across the river with literally no controlled access. Just back and forth however you want. This was only like 30 years ago.

I firmly believe that throughout the fall of 1974, Billy Kreutzmann was doing some of the absolute finest drumming ever.

Yep. It has been definitely proven and demonstrated that requiring users to change passwords frequently leads to weaker passwords, and yet organizations do it anyway.

The domestic implications are very evident, of course, but I wonder when we start seeing ICE being deployed abroad as a sort of unshackled military unit, basically a rank and file version of the way we deploy special ops teams and it's sort just exempt from any sort of regulations or restrictions.

Don't know if there is actually data for this, but the x/100 for person on the street who thinks "USA fought in WWII against the Nazis and the Russian Communists who are the same people and who are also the current Russians" is probably depressingly high.

Pelosi, talking about she sent the Supreme Court a stern letter after they preemptively approved Trump for a 4th term:

"Because remember, 6 7 [she slowly and awkwardly does the accompanying hand gestures] ate 9"

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While I can appreciate the optimism of "they're out there, we just have to find them" it doesn't do anyone any good to pretend our ideological enemies don't exist, and to not have a sober accounting of them.

There are red states. I'm in OK and while the cities are purple ish, anything the state votes on as a whole is overwhelmingly red. In fact as turnout increases it actually gets redder.

Progressives love to think that every red state is hiding a tranche of leftist rednecks, but it's just not true.

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"Brendan's got a man-gina" chant in 5/4 vs 12/8

Something I think about not infrequently is that in the movie Step Brothers, they chose to make the "Brendan's got a man-gina" chant in 5/4 instead of a triple meter like 6/8 or 12/8. What an odd choice.

Bryan, do a special episode called Guys Gals, and it's about the token woman who goes on bro podcasts. Your Kristi Lees, Whitney Cummings, etc.

Also REC

Exorcist
Exorcist III
Let Me In
The VVitch

They're probably already exploring Ft Sill for this very purpose. Its entire history has been "fort in a desolate place in the middle of the country to send whatever internal enemies we're currently targeting."

Honestly, with the sheer volume of Netflix original content, it's kind of surprising they haven't made a "This Week On Netflix" show where they promote their own stuff, show trailers, interview actors, etc.

I have a young relative staying with me this weekend and so we've been doing a lot of "family" stuff. I've determined that there are essentially three kinds of dads one is allowed to be:

-Dad who will kill you with a gun
-Clown dad
-Golf dad

These peoples' brains are pickled by late night TV.

Add this toy ever growing "they should make a block list from this criteria" idea list:

Anyone who has ever attempted to lib humor riff in the comments of an Aaron Rupar post.

Really makes me wish we could have seen more from Paxton as a director.

There is an argument that THEY at least consider their critic duties to be part of their profession 😂

While not professionals per se, would Hornby's "High Fidelity" count?

There are a few areas that have been bizarrely worse than prescribed in P2025 (happy to talk more about this privately, as it concerns me talking about a previous employer/job) that caught a lot of feds off guard BECAUSE people were assuming he'd do P2025.

Libby and other library discovery platforms should have a "secular" filter. It's kinda ridiculous that you can either see a thousand self help books that are mixed religious and secular, or you can see that 600 that are religious, but you can't see the 400 that aren't religious.

The way most people use this site is baffling. I follow exactly 1 person in the top 100 on this list. Expand it out to the top 300 and I only follow 8.

Local Guys? Townie Guys?

One of the all time greatest Oscars injustices.

This is why they broaden the definitions of what they THINK happens to include the stuff that DOES happen. For example if you come into college believing in creationism and your intro bio prof says that evolution is real, that is not woke indoctrination. But they'll call it woke indoctrination.