Noah Shusterman

(interrupting my social media break...)
No state in the US has strict gun laws. Not NY, not Hawaii, not anywhere, and pretty much anyone who's ever lived in any other country knows this.

Hi Folks. A bit of a Social Media Break for me, here in late summer 2025. Be well.

FWIW, I couldn't find GIFs of Rose on the Phillies, which was what I really wanted, but this did seem close enough.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid (kid me still had lots of learning to do)

Does Benadryl Do More Harm Than Good?

"If you’re on a deserted island and Benadryl is the only allergy drug available, you should take it, Dr. Wolfson said."

When I fly, I carry benadryl in case I want to use it to fall asleep. So, while this is certainly an unlikely scenario, it's not impossible.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...

I've also long been wary of comparisons btwn Israel and the Nazis, even as apt as the Apartheid comparisons were. But a) what's going on now makes that harder, and b) If someone writes a book called "Bibi's Willing Executioners" I'd probably buy it.

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

Bartov on (among other things) what Gaza means to Holocaust Studies. As with everything he writes, there's much good and some I just don't get.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Rough read.

No one knew what to do, which I get. I doubt I would.

But as weather gets worse, 'we'll just do what we've always done' stops working.

Must read of the morning:

(I'm guessing this is somehow Mario Brothers related, but since I'm not sure, that's not the first place my mind went).

Je ne les condamne pas.

The Nephew: Do you want me to put an ink stamp on your hand?
Me: Sure. (Makes fist) Put it on my fist.
(The Nephew puts an ink stamp on my fist).
The Nephew: It's Luigi!
Me: .... wait what?

"As chance would have it..."

Maybe. But I was a big fan, before. Thought he was gonna be PA's next governor, and a good one.

Shame is so 2015.

Goddammit no one is picking up on this really really obscure reference either...

"Double cheeseburger, onion rings, and a large orange drink."

Walsh and Fetterman both have top-10 spots in my List Of People I Was Wrong About.

No idea how old you are, but wow... through college I had great vision, could see farther then my friends, but was wearing glasses by 27.

"The fanaticism of members of totalitarian movements, so clearly different in quality from the greatest loyalty of members of ordinary parties, is produced by the lack of self-interest of masses who are quite prepared to sacrifice themselves." -Hannah Arendt

"Double cheeseburger, onion rings, and a large orange drink."

"The fanaticism of members of totalitarian movements, so clearly different in quality from the greatest loyalty of members of ordinary parties, is produced by the lack of self-interest of masses who are quite prepared to sacrifice themselves." -Arendt

God bless Berkeley Breathed…

PSG 4-0 Real Madrid (Jul 9, 2025) Game Analysis - ESPN Expert recap and game analysis of the Paris Saint-Germain vs. Real Madrid Fifa Club World Cup game from July 9, 2025 on ESPN.

I haven't been following the Club World Cup, but [image of Nelson Muntz pointing at Real Madrid and saying] Ha Ha!

www.espn.com/soccer/repor...

No idea. But a place like this isn't getting a lot of walk-ins, certainly not Chinese walk-ins; so writing in English, that there will be a "Chinese" service, that's aimed at English speakers, not the local Chinese community that already knows all of this.

"The Shanghainese can rot in hell for all we care."

It's the real-life version of the joke about God sending a car, a boat and a helicopter - just this time with dozens of dead children.
It all just sucks.

-I support traffic calming measures in general; and am specifically glad to have them on this road, where people used to drive much to fast;
-They're not "cushions."

We log this as high praise! 🐘 Thanks 😁