A friend of mine has the bad luck to be vacationing in Puerto Vallarta at the moment, and reports that until about an hour ago the federal police were nowhere to be seen, as members of one or more drug cartels terrorized the city. This is...
I've seen quite a bit of music this month. Some I will talk about this week, some in the next couple of these posts. The biggest thing I did was.
The fact that an anti-vaxx lunatic has been put in charge of the country's public health is both a horrifying and contingent fact about American politics. But there's also a.
Screenshot 2/22/26 How it started. In its 2021 pitch deck to investors, TMTG projected it would have $1.8 billion in revenue in 2025 and 69 million users on Truth Social. It also estimated that it would have 23 million paid users of its TMTG+ video streaming...
Last May, I discussed this ridiculous Trump Burger restaurant in Texas, owned by a Lebanese immigrant of course, where everything was branded TRUMP, including the buns. What I did not.
A west coast night person, after some desultory attempts at napping I just stayed up straight through, and I'm more concerned about how I'll be able to get to sleep.
Ken Mathiasen - Unsplash Maybe he thinks he's come up with a cunning plan to send a military vessel to Greenland. Or it is supposed to be a distraction from all the other distractions that aren't distracting enough. Maybe he's just doing what he was elected...
Ian Buruma, who is writing a book about Berlin during WWII, points out that people have a nearly unlimited capacity to normalize what would previously have been considered intolerable: In.
We have been remiss in failing to provide an Open Thread for the US-Canada Hockey Gold Medal game... now approaching end of the 1st period with the US ahead 1-0..
This is the grave of Mordecai Johnson. Born in 1890 in Paris, Tennessee, Johnson grew up reasonably well of for his time and place and race, which still wasn't much. His father was a minister but you couldn't make much of a living in a small-town...
Congratulations again to all the marginal voters who put Trump in office because prices were too high: President Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants a global tariff of 15%, up from.
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles's 2019 film Bacurau is an absolutely brilliant horror-western that is a very lightly disguised allegory for life under Bolsonaro. Set in the "very near.