Matt

“Guy who has strong opinions about the Super Bowl halftime show” is such a funny character. Best case scenario it’s a good performance and you go “that was mildly entertaining.” How do you get worked up about it on like a personal level lol

I was at a youth group SB party when the Janet Jackson thing happened lol

Missed the AI Dunkin ad, looked it up. The slop is getting desperate, it can’t carry on like this. We’re going to win this thing.

Me: why are you being fussy?

3yo daughter: it’s hard to say

3yo daughter (pointing at elderly man in a cartoon): he’s old

Me: what about me, am I old?

3yo (annoyed like I’m acting ridiculous): noooo, you’re new!

(beat)

3yo: but you’re getting old. then I’m going to need a new daddy

Kids’ illness rallying in its second week

lol that would be a good bit honestly

Definitely more uneven though (and I never finished season 5, only got a few episodes in and couldn’t do it)

I kid, I‘ll actually go to bat for season 4 to a certain extent—I’m charmed by the ambition of it and it has some killer bits

Share a TV show you love with 3 seasons or less.

Yeah he was just trying to put it in his own words but happened to land on a perfectly accurate scholastic formulation lol

Me: “It’s hard to say for sure but it’s possible that even Satan will turn back to God in the end.“

8yo: “Of course he will.”

6yo working out the Trinity in real time: “So… they’re the same THING but they’re not the same PERSON”

Me (ecstatic): “Exactly!”

6yo: “That’s super weird!”

8yo on God’s providence: “He’s playing wizard’s chess against Satan. That’s basically how the universe works.”

Anti-human, anti-life; corrosive of sociality, civility, decency, dignity, piety, and fear of God; cynically contemptuous of truth in its abject nihilism; a stain on Christian witness for those who make themselves complicit—the cancerous rot of MAGA must go.

You ask me, the light‘s winning

Inshellah they find him

The long 1990s have come to an end

Thanks, Mark! And fair point, you are probably right lol

wager that one’s reputation will weather the storm and hold out in the end (that would be too reflective), rather they are enslaved to the same totalizing presentism that cannot see past short-term advantage while all gets washed under the ceaseless deluge of “content.” (4/4)

contradict themselves boldly, and have no concern for personal reputation or honor when they can count on the fact that Monday’s story will be forgotten by Friday. The rapid news cycle is exploited of course, but I suspect that for many malefactors it is not a calculated (3/4)

a certain historical consciousness (“how will I be remembered?”). But the engines of distraction that govern of contemporary life (technological, political, cultural) preclude this kind of reflective movement by design. Politicians and pundits can lie to your face, (2/4)

Thinking about this some more, I think the loss of honor as a category is tied up with the widespread erosion of memory. To value honor or consider an act as honorable requires a higher vantage of time that transcends immediate utility and embraces (1/4)

we don’t even rise to the level of the former even in fits and starts. Not that base opportunism hasn’t always been there but not too long ago you still saw people who were embroiled in scandal voluntarily resign in disgrace. (2/2)

[Reposting from the other place:] What’s striking to me is the total disappearance of “honor” (even in a misplaced sense) as a conceivable good or motive in public life. True virtue even more so but I feel like the decline into short-term private pleasure-seeking has been so precipitous that (1/2)

8yo is telling riddles and demanding that every guess be supported with reasons for its proposal. He keeps rejecting my guesses for being insufficiently argued prescinding from questions of correctness.

When I threaten war over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the committee will finally see how wrong they got it

Vance currently putting up Jordan numbers in this department

Anti-human, anti-life; corrosive of sociality, civility, decency, dignity, piety, and fear of God; cynically contemptuous of truth in its abject nihilism; a stain on Christian witness for those who make themselves complicit—the cancerous rot of MAGA must go.