Fletcher Anderson sounds like a jerk so I am going to pile on because he is an idiot and a jerk. "Begging the question" is when the answer presupposes itself. Misleading advertising is different from begging the question.

And I’m thinking Moby Dick doesn’t bite so much as he swallows.

This is amazing.

Pharisee: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Jesus: Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's

I don't have many spicy music "hot takes" except maybe this: Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is flabby romantic jazz rock. The closest thing to a masterpiece he has is 1973's Veedon Fleece, a taut album that anticipates artists like Elvis Costello and Graham Parker. Listen to that instead.

The USA should establish and HOA type system for North America. Where other countries pay an HOA fee and we monitor whether they’re raking their forests

Imagine the crisis if Antifa was able to disrupt our fried chicken supply.

Explosive diarrrhea? Yeah, you should probably see an economist about that

You have to follow your own internal compass or you get lost.

This was such a good talking point and im hoping for a status update on the tiny screw assembly line initiative

I have been watching this for like 10 minutes. He - I am pretty sure it's a he - is like the coolest thing I have seen outside a Ghibli movie.

Democratic Senators for the past 36 hours: Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass

This makes the Franz Beckenbauer appearance on the philosopher's world cup sketch from Monty Python even more appropriate.

Hi I’m Matt Stoller. I’ve posted for years about how big corporations are bad, but have you considered that women control more than 50% of the pussy? They sort of have a monopoly on pussy, which is why I think they’re bad too.

Lincoln could be very conciliatory. He won the Republican nomination because of fears the frontrunner, William Seward, would lead the nation to civil war. But on the road to the nomination at Cooper Union, Lincoln calls for harmony, but sounds more like a man preparing the nation for war.

it remains fascinating that you keep hearing from manosphere types that women need to stop going to college in order to get married doesn't seem like that's the issue 🤔

"Okay, your first mistake here is not letting the fire die out before putting the meat on the grill, but I honestly think your main issue is that you put a bear in charge of making the food."

As someone said long ago, faith without work is dead. To Platner: put in the effort and come back with something to show. You are materially better off than ~90% of Americans. Act like it.

mossad about to activate that gold pager

Too many toys, not enough work, and lax discipline are a bad combination.

The steelmanning of Graham Platner

Mehdi's failure to say anything about Platner and Zeteo's role in defending him is really disappointing.

Perhaps the wildest detail of this case is the fact that this wasn't even the first worm that had been pulled from the man's abdomen.

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

I never had a teacher believe in me like this.

The concerted right wing social media push in favor of a US conquest of North America began even before Trump's inauguration. And you can rely on it lasting long after Trump is gone. The good news is that it has gone nowhere, but that is no reason for complacency.

Democrats should absolutely not give this lunatic any more military hardware.

The scolds were right.

I thinking about at the Senate primaries in Texas that they were lucky to have two strong candidates in Talarico and Crockett, while Maine had Platner and Mills. Maine Democrats have failed.

This is what the free speech absolutists have wrought from the intellectual Harper's letter signatories down to the crass podcast bros.

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

Looking forward to seeing a lot men and women in bikinis tomorrow.

I am sorry but I have standards and can't endorse a chop suey sandwich.

I have been reading about French polymath Ernest Renan. Reading his description of what makes a nation makes me despair on this Fourth of July. To him it is not race, but people with a great shared past eager to do more together. But also forgetting past hardships. The US just isn't there.

Miller is either ignorant or lying. Children born onto foreign flagged vessels do not qualify for birthright citizenship as they are not US subjects.

Oh my god

Crazy levels of antisemitism from Roger Waters.

Sad to see him depart

On a micro level, it is similar to when people were aghast that I laughed at the weird stuff my dad said when he had Alzheimer's. If you cannot laugh, you would be unbearably depressed all the time. Only when their parents got old and demented did they get it.

People on the sidewalk in my affluent neighborhood stared like I was a crazy person when I got out of my car to put a roadkill squirrel in good condition into a small paper bag. I understand but what can you do, the opossums at home were hungry.

Wow I never heard anything about Planck's politics.

Heard this terrible song as a young Brad Pitt street raced at the beginning of a Tales From The Crypt, rhyming “gonna shoot my load” with “bad road, wretched road” and thought MAN, this has to be intentionally awful, right? Then the “music by” credit came on. I think…yes. youtu.be/HWCgRWaHL0U?...

Kat Abu is bourgeois.

Love all, trust none. Englewood, Chicago.

what is wild is we're supposed to get all butthurt about air conditioning for humans but be ok about air conditioning for nvidia gpus

This is what peak male performance looks like.

The pushback to this article shows me that a lot of Americans who grew up in liberal democracy have no idea how exactly liberal democracies are supposed to be different from authoritarian governments. Liberalism delivers a life of humanity and kindness free from fear no other ideology can.