H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost

This is very useful—I also wanted to tag @cloudquistador.bsky.social because he has a farther reach than I, so hopefully he can get this to more people than I. Being a curmudgeon like I am isn’t helpful when you actually want to share things 😂

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I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤

Must read! @apache.be hits the nerve of a debate almost lost: keep that nonsense out of our educational structure. Why should we instruct our students how to adjust to these utterly ridiculous systems? Learn them to think instead, that’s why society pays us!

This and Zionism. I left enough projects over both, and whole heartbreaking, I can't do much else. I do hope they recover soon.

If we survive this . I want THE HAGUE .

Some of these fools need to be sent straight to someone ELSES prison to show we mean it.

Thai is eugenics by brain worm

People think they can excuse anything because reasons but that's not how caring about the planet and other people is like

YouTube video by American Film Institute William Friedkin on Harry Lime in THE THIRD MAN

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YouTube video by John Frankensteiner The Best of William Friedkin's Cruising Commentary

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YouTube video by ElectricFilms William Friedkin on dealing with method actors

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Abuser logic btw

YouTube video by Galician Granddaughter 🇺🇦 Mark Anthony being entertaining (Rome season 1 scenes)

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Detachment is no easy thing to do, and yet it is essential to criticism of all sorts.

Now watching--this is one of my favorite Mike Leigh movies, second to Naked (1993)

"...few doctrines seem worth fighting for. Far from going to the stake for a Great Truth, I wouldn’t miss a meal for it.”

--H.L. Mencken

“I have been torn all my writing life by two conflicting desires—the journalistic desire to say it at once and have it done, and the more scholarly desire to say it carefully and with some regard to fundamental ideas and permanent values.”

--H.L. Mencken

syllogisms.'

--H.L. Mencken

"The liberation of the human mind has been best furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe—that the god in the sanctuary was a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand

ICE and Border Patrol’s use of tear gas injures, sickens and tests the law Federal immigration agents say chemical agents are needed to disperse violent protesters. But videos also show them firing at people in aggressive and ‘unorthodox’ ways.

Federal immigration officers are using chemical irritants to disperse protesters in ways that violate American policing norms and test the boundaries of use-of-force laws, video footage from Chicago shows.

With all due respect, I wish people would grow up

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there.”

Flannery O’Connor

"The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee."

Christopher Hitchens

I listened to the Tucker/Fuentes interview and I know I shouldn't be but I'm always surprised by how completely unoriginal this kind of stuff is. Just reheated David Duke bullshit, not a single new thought to be found

Jonathan Greenblatt tweeting his support for Kevin Roberts

Jonathan Greenblatt doing clean-up for Kevin Roberts at the Heritage Foundation is the same as Kevin Roberts doing clean-up for Tucker Carlson is the same as Tucker Carlson doing clean-up for Nick Fuentes

Outside Chicago—

State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.

A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.

Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.

My gloss on the White House demolition and what it means: Trump is re-making America into a new image, changing it from a technocracy that plays at being the Old Republic of the Founders (its own shell game) to a new Leviathan, an oligarchic labor colony of technological grift.

Happy NoNoBroNo! I wrote a ghost story.

Matthew Yglesias: One Billion Americans Podcast Episode · Ill Conceived · 11/01/2025 · 1h 50m

new episode of ill conceived where we read matthew yglesias’ insane book titled ‘one billion americans’

Jessica Tisch, Snow Days, and Elizabeth Street Garden: Zohran Mamdani Meets the Hell Gate Podcast In a wide-ranging, 45-minute interview, the Democratic mayoral frontrunner talked about how he'd lead New York City (and his one-Red Bull-per-week habit).

Did you listen to our Hell Gate Podcast with Zohran Mamdani? Here were a few highlights.

In short, money talks. Microsoft and its cash sapping parasite, OpenAI, plus Amazon, Google and others are waging a full scale propaganda war to recruit advocates. @jaybeware.bsky.social and I discuss this: www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...