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Without saying Sinners, name your film of the year.

I know everyone's got a lot going on, but we are not talking enough about that Brice Sensabaugh pass from last night

What's the defensive ceiling of the Jazz this season? The eye test seems to show a lot more effort than last year, but the defensive metrics I've seen are still pretty bad.

Centrist: Our tent is big enough for everyone!

Leftist: Wow! Including trans people?

C: That’s not exactly who...

L: What about socialists?

C: We need to focus on kitchen-table...

L: Palestine activists?

C: Israel has a right...

L: Then who do you want in the tent?

C: Oh, you know the ones

She spent more time talking about her glock than she did on identity politics

"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sob CEOs who not only funded the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party, but bought entire media conglomerates to fire anyone who spoke out against the leopards"

The enemy of my enemy doesn't have to be my friend to be useful

every day I feel worse about the next 6-12 months and better about the next 2-5 years.

I mean, it has to be Oliver, right?

Abolish charter and private schools.

Bill Clinton, famous teller of truths

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Jazzman most likely to be traded this year isn't Lauri; it's Svi Mykhailiuk. The guy quietly does a lot off things really well, and those things happen to the skills that help contenders round out their rotations for a playoff run. Could be a great pickup for a team that needs depth.

I love watching Isaiah Collier play basketball.

I know the odds are stacked against him with his turnovers and his shooting, but I really hope he pulls it out.

What is an especially meaningful birthday gift you've received?

My wife's birthday is coming up, and I'm having an unusually difficult time brainstorming this year

Wish I'd listened to you before I picked Bane in the third round of an otherwise great fantasy draft

The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).

Chuck, portrayed by Paul Scheer, a member of the Good Place Committee: "He's got a point. The fair thing for us to do is just keep giving up more and more stuff we want, unilaterally, until this demon is finally happy."

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

hah. should have known @theradr.bsky.social already broke this down (from a very different angle, but to the same interpretive end, if i'm allowed that confidence!) years ago, in a newsletter.

what is more jewish than arguing the same point repeatedly
lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/on-the-sin...

Judith Beheading Holofernes, by Caravaggio, 1599

The "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards" meme

Luke s decision to drop his weapon during his final climactic conflict is such a wonderfully radical choice, and it doesn't get the respect it deserves

Despite how badly the team has played, somehow, it's still the color of the court

fixed it

Cottonwood Heights mayor concedes race to state lawmaker An incumbent mayor in Salt Lake County is on his way out after losing his re-election bid to a current Utah lawmaker. As mayor, Rep. Gay Lynn Bennion said she plans to tackle several issues right away...

Cottonwood Heights, a suburb of Salt Lake City, has a new democrat mayor
ksltv.com/local-news/c...

a basketball game is being played in front of a banner for at & t 5g Alt: donovan mitchell misses a game winning shot in a Jazz uniform

In all serious, this sucks for Walker, it sucks for the Jazz, and it sucks for the fans.

Looks like the Jazz are keeping their pick this year!

Sometimes, but it wasn't a staple. The essentials in my house were turkey, rolls, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, and pie.

Depending on which relatives were contributing, there might also be stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans/green bean casserole, salad, funeral potatoes, and candied yams.

I grew up in southern Utah, and we always had corn but never mac and cheese. My in-laws do mac and cheese, though. They lived in California and Texas, so I'm not sure where they got it

The Millennial Gray House