Francisco Goya looks on in awe.

Hey, maybe if the Nobel committee gives a prize to someone in Greenland they can use the medal to bribe Trump to back off. Doing so would avert a war, and retroactively justify giving the prize to the Greenlander in the first place.

The President of Texas A&M has said that censorship of their professor's syllabi is okay, because they're not censoring ALL of Plato. In that spirit, I share with you his email, which I have censored, but don't worry, it's okay because I didn't censor ALL of it.

"Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come." --George Orwell, "What is Fascism?"

Them 'All Lives Matter' people sure are silent all of a sudden.

Seems like a violation of the spirit of the Society to not mention the time that the meeting will take place.

The shooting of Renee Good is such a divisive issue. Half of Americans think ICE are racist bigots. Other half think ICE are evil fucks. Brothers, sisters, can't we come together, join hands and think of ICE as evil-racist-fuck-bigots?

Baller move.

After watching that horrifying video way too many times I decided I needed to do something. I'm starting by making another donation to @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign. No one person can solve this problem. But more people like her in DC will certainly help.

At 800 mg of creatine, you can eff the ineffable. At 900 mg of creatine, you can see noumenal reality. At 1,000 mg of creatine, you kick start the next cycle in your eternal recurrence.

Time to dust off this classic from @theonion.com theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Hey, just checking, wars don't cause an increase in illegal immigration, do they?

This dude's antics prove exactly why daycares should lock their doors.

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."--Friedrich Nietzsche

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

"Sleep in heavenly peace" sounds like a death threat.

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

The squeaky wheel may get the grease, but first it has to live with the indignity of being annoying as fuck.

🎼God said to Noah "There's gonna be a floody-floody!" 🎶Noah said to God "What the fuck, dude, there are fucking babies down here!"

Imagine someone saying this about the internet in 1995.

Maybe we can only imagine Sisyphus happy if we can imagine Zeus being dethroned.

But goddamn, do I WANT to believe this. I want to believe Gandhi actually said this, and I want to believe it's actually true. Maybe I even NEED to believe it. Maybe without this belief we wouldn't be able to find the strength to fight on.

And second I don't actually think it's true. Truth and love HAVEN'T always won. Yes, tyrants eventually fall, but only in the same way that heros and the virtuous do, too. So whomever said this, they're probably wrong.

The wild thing about this quote is that I'm skeptical of it twice over. First, I don't think Gandhi ever actually said this; it was in the movie, but I've never been able to hunt it down to a real source.

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” ― Mahatma Gandhi (allegedly)

I read through these (more in the comments) and hoped maybe this was some cheeky lefty publication that went looking for the most extremist nuts they could find to make the right look bad. Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute. Horrifying.

This looks like a case study right out of Michelle Alexander's "Medical Apartheid", a racist medical establishment sacrificing people of color for scientifically worthless information.

"A "relationship" is just that--the more or less stable juxtaposition of two separate and self-contained entities. Love, on the other hand, is an explosive fusion. The parts of a bomb do not stand in a mere 'relationship' to one another."--Robert Solomon

When Donald Trump dies and people are dancing in the streets and MAGA condemns their callousness, share Trump's response to Rob Reiner's death. Never let them, not for a moment, gloss over the absolute moral depravity of them man they championed and defended.

New version of the Birthday Problem just dropped.

"Luke... I am. Your... Father..." --Colossian 4:14, Genesis 27:31, Genesis 2:24 Even Darth Vader can cite scripture to suit his purposes

When I say "every accusation is a confession" this is what I mean.

Weird choice to be worried about “viewpoint discrimination” when the viewpoint is “I get to use slurs in an academic paper.”

Me, next time I'm asked to serve on a committee.

It says Utah because there's no such place as Salt Lake City. It's just a metaphor.

Me, the next time an administrator asks if I want to serve on a committee.

"When feminism retreats into exclusionary logics, it cuts itself from the alliances that have historically kept it alive, and people like Trump are counting on that."

He was held civilly liable for sexual abuse and slandered his accuser. He’s been accused by roughly two dozen women of rape and sexual assault. He was best friends with a pedophile. He bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and said Ivanka had to beg him not date younger than her when she was 17.

"The nation that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

But then again, once is enough.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

“The test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring.”--Willa Cather

Zombies say "BRAINS!" because they're moral cognitivists.

“The simple act of caring for the world is itself a victory. Take a stand—not because it will lead to anything, but because it is the right thing to do. We never know what can or can’t be done; only what must be done.”—Andrew Boyd

Why is he called "NarcissUS" instead of "NarcissME"?

"If the suffering of children make up the sum which is necessary of the purchase of truth then I say that the entire truth is not worth such a price. We cannot afford to pay so much for admission. It is not God that I do not accept. I merely most respectfully return him the ticket”-Dostoyevsky

Just trying to steal a little more time from death.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think a guy who was sued for fraud over the fake University he created should have any say in how higher education is run.