Josh Parshall

Bluebird?
Yes?

Columbia, MO

Eleven riders on a mid-day bus. Imagine if it ran more than every 90 minutes!

The Super Bowl Could Not Compete With Tape-Delayed Olympic Curling | Defector Nobody else in my house likes football, and we are believers in democracy at least as far as concerns the television. And so it was that, Sunday evening, I had the Super Bowl streaming on my li’l lapt...

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No Kings includes Draft Kings

Curling is a top-5 spectator sport.

*skeet

Niche tweet: Yiddishists watching US mixed doubles curling and wondering if he's related to ציליע דראַפּקין.

Saw an ad on the Olympics that starts off by repeating the “one more lane will do it” joke a few times (about highway construction and induced demand). Then it ended up being for an air taxi service serving the 2028 LA Olympics. This is hell.

This has kicked off some terrific discourse in the private chat where I hang out with my idiot friends.

Worst Animorph

Anne Frank wasn’t invoked because she was identical to today’s undocumented immigrants. She was invoked because she was a child destroyed by a regime that transformed paperwork, registries, and enforcement into mechanisms of terror—while insisting, all along, that it was merely following the law. This is why ICE cannot be excluded from the conversation. ICE targets people whose defining feature is their lack of state-recognized papers; people who work, form families, and build communities while living under constant threat of detention and expulsion. The claim isn’t that Minneapolis under ICE occupation is exactly the same as Nazi Germany. The claim is that systems of bureaucratic cruelty justified by legality aren’t historical aberrations. They are recurring political, juridical technologies.

Such an important essay by @joelhs.bsky.social @religiondispatches.org on Tim Walz, the Anne Frank analogy (and broader Holocaust analogies) and ICE terrorizing Minneapolis and elsewhere. religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...

I think that when the days are shorter we should have shorter workdays, for our mental health but, get this -

when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing

Curling is one of the top five spectator sports.

YouTube video by unvmebad86 George Washington

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

Prince John: Such an unusual name, “Latrine.” How did your family come by it?

Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.

Prince John: You mean you changed it TO “Latrine?”

Latrine: Yeah. Used to be “Shithouse.”

I think Umberto Eco had something to say about this in “Ur Fascism”—that fascists always have to exaggerate AND downplay the strength of their opponents, which is always a strategic disadvantage for them.

Nailed it. In my private chat, gems like this get a 🏌️‍♀️ emoji.

I enjoyed watching it!

Have you written about your political shifts over the last decade? I think I started following you in the mid-2010s for Yiddish reasons, and I recall you being more moderate than me at the time. Not so true these days!

Or am I misremembering?

Great question!

It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.

The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.

It makes Jews much less safe when we presume all antisemitism comes from Muslims, and imply it couldn’t possibly be Christians.

Sincerely,
A Jew who lived in Jackson, loved living there, wore a yarmulke every day, and is unsurprised a white, religious Christian man set fire to the synagogue there

Also wild that Podhoretz says it "destroyed" the synagogue. Not to minimize what happened, but the building is still there! It'll take months to get back in, and it's a fresh round of trauma, but you're correct that these folks are shameless.

I used to belong to that congregation. It was pretty much immediately clear that this was not about Israel/Palestine, although it took until today for that info to come out.

Watching Unrivaled is cool because the players can cuss in postgame interviews and stuff.

There's a ridiculous Maker's Mark commercial with "Riki Tiki Tavi" by Donovan. That song is an anti-authoritarian anthem (too libertarian IMHO) and they use a tiny snippet of lyrics to make it seem like a party song or something. Weird.

I don’t know if it’s in the news yet, but I’m hearing (from Jackson Jewish community members) that the suspect is a young white man who got brain poisoned on the internet.

suffering.

A short piece I wrote about Rabbi Nussbaum and the 1967 bombing: www.myjewishlearning.com/2018/04/12/c...

I worked in this building. I went to synagogue in this building. My kid went to religious school in this building.

“Jefferson City Downtown Fashion District.”