Wrong Kennedy.

lol Matt Taibbi is such a fucking clown

Fuck every last one of them. Of course, they never leave; but if they did we would somehow survive.

OK, could not resist this one, obviously. Make a Bond movie academic: From Russia With Love: The Marxist Femme Fatale as Cold War Erotic Stereotype Make a Bond Movie Casual: The World is Enough Back to vacation ...

The West Wing has sort of been 'forgotten' from all of that showboating about auteur television or whatever they're calling it this week, hasn't it? There are episodes of it that are better than anything I've ever seen on a streaming platform. timworthington.org/2020/12/24/l...

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Letter to the editor, December 2010 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

Inside CECOT (the 60 Minutes segment that was spiked yesterday) is available on Global TV in Canada. ⬇️ This iCloud copy is a a 1.2 GB file. The Proton Drive and Google Drive copies I'm seeing are just over 300 MBs. However, people are working on creating better qualities copies. So stay tuned!

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

meanwhile in Canada

airmail.news/issues/2025-... Hitler and My Mother-in-Law on Air Mail

Outta here for my annual end-of-the-year respite. Try to stay safe and sane, and I'll see you in January ...

Least surprising headline of the 2025 news cycle ...

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

BAD SANTA and THE REF - my perfect Christmas double feature.

I feel immense schadenfreude at Bari Weiss falling flat on her face here and having to postpone her company-wide, self-congratulatory pat on the back.

Time to cancel my Alaska Airlines card, administered by B of A.

Chills confirmed.

What the fucking hell is wrong with this monster country that a man like this has to beg for money to stay alive. And yet, help him we must. Please do.

In 1964, Ian Fleming and Georges Simenon met at Simenon’s chateau outside Lausanne and talked about Bond and Maigret. The conversation was published in Harper’s Bazaar, just after Fleming’s death in August of that year. Now the exchange is published on its own as part of the Eris Gems series.

Got off my lazy ass last night and ventured out to an actual movie theatre to enjoy the glorious 30th anniversary re-release of Sense and Sensibility. Loved every minute and recommend it highly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5unq...

I am on a one-man crusade to arrest the use of "gifting" (and all variants) wherever I encounter it.

Mike Johnson makes Denny Hastert look like a dynamo.

Got some thrilling news today that I can only share in January; but what I can say is it is for something that I have been applying on and off since 2015. Do not give up. Persistence really does matter.

This is fabulous @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Is this in a book?

So Oscar shortlists is really a thing now?

7 Dems voted for this Cuellar-TX Davis-NC Gillen-NY Golden-ME Gonzalez-TX Gray-CA Perez-WA

Well, so far I have nothing good to say about Boldr's customer service. I wish companies spent as much time helping customers as they chasing capital.

I'm planning an informal FREE zoom writing salon about ghost stories on Thurs., Dec. 18, 2025, 11am-12pm (Central). If you'd like to join, please register & I'll send you a link. We'll look at a few short ghost stories, talk about how they work, and end with some prompts. forms.gle/eHUs4pGLxBVY...

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

Maybe American legacy media will learn a thing or two about not rolling over from the Brits ... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

A new interview from Zadie Smith is *always* an immediate "drop everything" moment for me. I found this conversation a desperately needed balm for the miseries of this day. www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...

It's possible. It just takes political will.

NEW: The most symbolic thing ever just happened in Guaíba, Brazil.

ever day I be like

maybe it will happen today

a wealth tax is a winning issue.

Jesus. Now Rob Reiner. I can't anymore with this day.

The Republican-sanctioned slaughter of American children continues unabated.

I am a lifelong leadfoot (with the speeding tickets to show for it), yet I find myself thinking this is a pretty solid idea. Gotta keep y'all safe from the likes of me.

34 years ago tonight. First Elevator Repair Service performance. "Mr. Antipyrine, Fire Extinguisher" at Nada, 167 Ludlow St. NYC (with Bradley Glenn, Heidi Becker, Rinne Groff, James Hannaham. In the booth: me, Colleen Werthmann, Katherine Profeta.)

Happy 100th birthday, Dick Van Dyke. Dick (and friends) perform the title song to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JWK...

I saw "The Fugitive" opening night in Century City. Sold out house broke into spontaneous applause at the end of the bus crash sequence. Same thing happened opening night of "The Abyss" in Westwood when the underwater base thingy tumbled down in the depths. Miss that kind of excitement.

Fuck Liam Neeson.