Gregory Hays

📖 Finished Olga Tokarczuk's 'The Empusium. A Health Resort Horror Story.'

(I'm working up to 'Books of Jacob,' which I bought during lockdown but have yet to start.)

Although I think there were some issues with the underlying product, too.

Sydney Greenstreet (seated) as Caspar Gutman and Peter Lorre (standing, holding a small gun) as Joel Cairo.

The Maltese Falcon. I'm basic.

Yeah, I should perhaps have just said "rich idiots."

oh my

Jasper, a good and handsome boy.

I feel like handing over control of public universities to people whose main qualification is that they know nothing about universities and care still less is an experiment that's been run an adequate number of times now and maybe we should try something else.

Alas, we had to say goodbye to Miss Molly a few years ago, but I will pass your good wishes on to her successor, Jasper.

We are cohort!

Yeah, we're a big country, we can have more than one problem at a time.

Storefront of SCS Sofa Carpet Specialist

The real SCS.

Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Kevin McCarthy on the cover of 'Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders.'

More fruits of my desktop cleanup.

Remembering Trump's secret plan to defeat ISIS, which turned out to be summoning all the generals to the White House and ordering them to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS.

Elon Musk, wearing a baseball cap and steepling his fingers (he is standing) addresses a meeting of the cabinet. Russ Vought looks at him attentively.

Randomly found this while cleaning up my desktop. It feels like a decade ago. (So little gold trim!) Also, look at the size of his pupils, even from this distance.

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish

I expect they feel the same way about her.

"I must say now, and clearly, that I am of the South Africa of Verwoerd and apartheid ... a nation which ... is the product of its instinct and ability to maintain civilised values and standards amongst the alien barbarians."

Can't imagine why Trump's a fan.

I mean, he can't really march on Moscow, so

Kind of mystified by the Nigeria stuff tbh. Was Franklin Graham at the Gatsby party?

Tom Buchanan, great guy, very impressive young man. Has some interesting ideas about the Nordic race, very smart and scientific

Yeah, I think there'll be some of that too.

I don't know, I think there's a significant group of voters who will vote for Spanberger over Earle-Sears because, well, you know, and for Miyares over Jones because, well, you know.

Can't believe we have to host the less established relatives for Thanksgiving again

Card Says Moops originalism

Or as Muslims call it, a jihad.

Wetona only pawn in game of life

Center for Exploding Venezuela-ass shit.

And no publics, either. If you're at Cornell you'd better be in the endowed half.

New York Times headline: 'Carney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Ad Reviving Reagan's Tariff Criticism'

Seems like a wise move if he wants to remain governor of the Great State of Canada

Call the roller of big cigar cutters

TIRED: Gulf of America

WIRED: Church of America