I get about a half dozen texts like this every day, although the volume goes down when I remember to reply STOP to them: sobbing . . . HAPPY TEARS! Barack Obama just changed EVERYTHING. You have to see this: [Link to a quote from...
Author: Paul Campos
For decades Tom Friedman has been the all but official voice of centrist conventional wisdom in this country, so when he talks this way you know things have gone very.
I think it might just be something like this: https://bsky.app/profile/davidjroth.bsky.social/post/3lvm5bb37bk26 Second prize: https://bsky.app/profile/twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social/post/3lvm7dv65xs2b It's all a distraction from the . . . [checks notes] other distractions. I wonder what's going.
I realize this is trivial, DamnYankeesLGM points out correctly that this isn't true: It's not a trivial issue. When people used to tell stories about how North Korean media would report that Kim Jong Il scored 18 holes in one on a golf course, its...
The literary scholar and cultural critic Christopher Newfield, who among many other things has published three books regarding what could be (and in fact is) called "critical university studies," recently.
One of the few advantages of getting old is that you eventually get better at not doing things you don't want to do, and what I don't want to do.
xr:d:DAFWoD7VYeg:11,j:44593341580,t:23010316 I know districts in which the young people prostrate themselves before books, and like savages kiss their pages, although they cannot read a single letter.” Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel.” The historian David Bell explores (gift link) some of the parallels between...
[Removing a Gaza reference because as Voltaire said witticisms do not go well with massacres] . . . fuck it I can't do this. THE VOTERS VOTED FOR THIS. THE.
Chalk this one up in the New Gilded Age on Meth category, although you know who ELSE encouraged completely open public corruption in the bonzocracy? (Question for LGM's vast reservoir.
Chris Murpby tried to block Trump from accepting a billion-dollar bribe in the form of a Qatari 747 retrofitted with hundreds of millions of dollars of American taxpayer money. He offered an amendment that would bar the plane from being transferred to Trump after Trump...
I don't have any kind of expertise on the issues discussed in this post, beyond reading some books on what has happened to the poorest and most socially marginal people.
Three guesses regarding who this story involves, and the first two don't count. An infamous criminal defense attorney was ridiculed Wednesday after melting down at a farmer's market in Martha's Vineyard..