Mid-morning Confessions: For several months (maybe many?) back in 1981, I loved singing Red Rider’s big hit: Let me take French, I know you're out there You're in hiding And you hold your meetings The song rocked even if I couldn’t make sense of the lyrics.

Halloween Costume Ideas: Christmas tree destroyed by cats Malibu Karen Barbie Trailer Trash Klingon Predator Garbage Collector

• Right wing men: “Women need men because we can change an alternator.” • Everyone else: “You do know that women can just go to mechanics. What women want is someone who is kind and caring.”

Halloween Costumes: Jeffrey Dahmer: FDA Meat Inspector Rasputin: Trump Political Consultant

Jason Voorhees: Relationship Counselor

Halloween Display I’d like to see: Rosemary’s Baby’s Gender Reveal

I think it would be great if someone edited an anthology about Freedom. Basically having various SF/F authors exploring the concept in different ways: political, cultural, religious, social, etc.

Costume Ideas: Little Zombie on the Prairie Great American Bake Off: Xenomorph Edition Dracula: Walmart Employee Professional Wolfman Wrestling

• Me to Luna (a cat): “You’ve been throwing up a lot. Should I be calling you Yarkimedes?” • Luna: “Your humor, like your personality, has the buoyancy of lead.” • Me: “Ooh! Low blow!” • Luna: “I could go lower, but you’ve already sunk among the infinitesimals.”

A lot of men depict women as helpless and therefore needing a man to take care of here. These same men also opine that they need a woman to make them sandwiches because they don't know how to feed themselves.

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

You know, I never feel fat, not really. I’ve always felt just like me. But then I put my hands on my belly, and I, well, feel fat, technically speaking. And then I tell myself, “Nope! Not making that mistake again!”

• Jeong, sighing: “It’s so difficult being the only adult in this house.” • Me, taken aback: “You do know that your father, myself, and the kids are all adults, right?” • Jeong: “You’re so cute when you think you’re making any sense.”

Is there any sign that says one has truly lived more than being the subject of an Oliver Putnam story?

In Europe, some public bathrooms are unisex. I’m talking about bathrooms with multiple stalls and both genders waiting in line. Nobody cares who else is using the bathroom.

The "Great Man of History" genre of academic writing is problematic in many ways. However, one facet that I don't think has been addressed is that the grand majority of these individuals are effing psychopaths and should be identified as such.

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k

Israel continues to commit genocide on the Palestinian people so that Israel can fully annex Palestinian lands without having to include Palestinians in the expanded Israeli state. That’s right: genocide-fueled land grab.

“The American system is already doing exactly what it was designed to do over 200 years: protect power, absorb pressure, and wait you out. Resistance isn’t a percentage; it is a line you cross. The movements that matter don’t succeed because they’re big. "

Volkov said he carried "great pain" and could no longer stay silent about what's happening in his home country. He said thousands of innocent Palestinians are being killed, and Israeli hostages are kept in terrible conditions for almost two years, and political prisoners are languishing in jails."

Also @pastpunditry.bsky.social in Boston Review, in a series I also contributed to

The head of an independent United Nations commission that concludes Israel has committed genocide in Gaza argues that countries supplying weapons to Israel, like the United States, are also complicit.

If bigots are not just free to be open about bigotry but can use the state to punish undesireables for wrongthink we no longer have a democracy in which all can partake; we have a state that determines who gets to be human and who does not. What Ezra proposes is negotiating the terms of surrender.

"Truth doesn't need myth to make it righteous, and resistance doesn't need permission from the past." – Tad Stoermer, PhD.

Advocate racist views? Congratulations! You’re a racist. Defend a racist? Congratulations! You’re a racist. Commune with racist? Congratulations! You’re a racist. Sit with a racist? Congratulations! You’re a racist. I don’t make the rules.

It's really sad that the person who wrote some of the most blatantly anti-fascist and popular fantasy books in the 1990s and 2000s turns out to be blatantly supportive of fascism. It isn't surprising that it's J. K. Rowling, but it's still quite sad.

Many journalists are so accustomed to being vilified by the right that they're disarmed by far-right operators who are personally cordial.

Advocate Nazi views? Congratulations! You’re a Nazi. Defend a Nazi? Congratulations! You’re a Nazi. Commune with Nazis? Congratulations! You’re a Nazi. Sit with a Nazi? Congratulations! You’re a Nazi. I don’t make the rules.

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

• Any cat when I’m trying to pee: “I love you! Pet me to show that you love me, too. Pet me. Pet me! PET ME!” • Any cat when they’re trying to pee: “Get away from me, bitch. Come any closer, and I’ll cut you. You know I’m armed!”

I don’t condone violence, but there’s no way I will ever mourn the likes of Charlie Kirk. Too bad there is no hell, as he would deserve to go there.

Too many men are blind to the fact that strong, intelligent, and independent women are hot, and these men need to get over themselves.

Why do so many TV shows and movies portray academics as only into classical music? Yes, there are academics who only listen to classical, but they aren't the norm. I know this, because I've spent a few decades in academia.

Some people say that Vance is worse than Trump, and it seems like an excuse to keep Trump in control.

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.