Leonard Pierce

What is Talarico's VORP, what is his GWRBI

This is to say the trick of centrism, and the reason it's so toxic, is that it sells itself as a sensible, moderate response to the observation of the full range of political opinion, deciding to pick the middle, but it's always a post hoc rationale.

Sometimes when people say that BlueSky is just a leftist echo chamber I think about how many times a week I don’t post something because I know 75% of the other leftists I follow will yell at me about it

Okay

The most annoying SO FAR

China has health care, child care, and renewables, AND high-speed rail, and if they’re not a democracy, I have extremely bad news for you about the U.S.

I’m just glad John Carter has moved on from being a warlord of Mars to more dignified work

Do not give them money or matches

Giant continent? Giant joke!

Now and forever, Pizza Bubamara

Hell yeah

If he doesn’t then I don’t know what my purpose in life is

Grok, show me the most unfuckable person ever born

At a certain point you gotta stop blaming the hammer for how bad it hurts when you hit yourself in the temple with it

How can I be expected to function without being regularly exposed to the thoughts of self-impressed Ivy League dipshits employed by billionaires to launder their patrons' bad behavior

Oh darn I won't be able to enjoy the details of the latest high-profile op-ed dorks being transphobic because I have all the high-profile op-ed dorks blocked, what a huge loss for me

Tracy Jordan saying "Well, go ahead, Fat Balls"

When I see my urologist

Just a bunch of cool, chill guys, the US state department

Quote of the Day:

“The dogmatisms of each age wear out. Statements of absolute truth wear thin, show gaps, are discarded. The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.” (Edith Hamilton)

In history today, right-wing military officers burn the office of a communist newspaper in Sweden, killing five people, in 1940.

The noir of the day is 1954’s TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI, directed by Jacques Becker for Films Corona and starring René Dary, Dora Doll, and Jean Gabin.

At a tree farm, an eastern red cedar with a teardrop shape and thin green fronds grows.

Good morning! It is March 3rd in the United Socialist States of America.

Today we commemorate Children’s Day. Strive for a happy life for our children!

We celebrate the Eastern red cedar, juniperis virginiana.

Doc Watson was born on this day in 1923; Charlotte Moore Sitterley died today in 1990.

CNN headline: "Has the US ever assassinated a world leader before?" NOTE: the answer is "yes"

Wow CNN good question

Almost every streaming service has a terrible UI (Peacock’s is absolute dogshit) but I really, really wish that HBO Max would figure out how to display the Unrivaled games so that you can start with the one that was first and not have THE OTHER ONE FUCKING SPOILED BEFORE YOU GET A CHANCE TO WATCH

Way ahead of you pal

Living in the heart of empire really fucks your brain up but good and that is never more obvious than when we are engaging in our frequent habit of bombing countries we find troublesome to the imperial project

Damn, that’s good concept

I keep seeing this commercial for Woodford Reserve saying it has over 200 "flavor notes" and I'm sorry but that is the most absurd thing I have ever heard

One million percent

Quote of the Day:

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.” (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

In history today, indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated by U.S.-trained killers in 2016.

The noir of the day is 1946’s FEAR, directed by Alfred Zeisler for Monogram Pictures and starring Peter Cookson, Anne Gwynne, and Warren William.