I never felt older than when the "oldies" station started playing '90s and '00s music alongside its previous '70s and '80s lineup. Even the "classic rock" stations have moved on from the '60s and '70s and are now playing '80s and '90s stuff.

They have proclaimed him St. Paul, Superman, Jesus, and George Washington rolled into one. The closest comparison I can make is to the James Dean death cult, except that began as a spontaneous, bottom-up creation of teenagers and this is an intentional, top-down fabrication by powerful elites.

A controversial new Spanish biopic depicts Miguel de Cervantes as a gay man having a years-long relationship with his Barbary pirate captor in Algiers, a story with little to no historical evidence behind it. www.queerty.com/myth-or-homo...

I never favored the kind of book review that substitutes summary for analysis, but I defy you to read Max Carter's review of a new Robert Louis Stevenson biography and find in it anything about the book, save that the author refers to Stevenson as "Louis." airmail.news/issues/2025-...

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Do you think Pope Leo would agree with that, Tim? Would Jesus?

Once you are part of the media elite, you are in for life (short of having a secret button to lock women into your office). If you are not part of the elite going in, you will never experience that level of class solidarity.

I wonder how he'll like it when all we can watch is his unedited, unfiltered blathering. I'm not sure that will go as well for him as he thinks it will.

That won't cut it. Back in Vietnam War era, "Laugh-In" literally hired a Nixon confidante as a producer, and Nixon still turned the FBI on them and harassed and investigated the show because Dan Rowan, who was not exactly a flaming liberal, wore a peace lapel pin and mildly critiqued the war.

Next up: Mandatory ad viewing to unlock your food.

I'm sure when this spreads to the rest of government the posters will be equally inspirational. "LADIES: CHARLIE SAYS 'BACK TO THE KITCHEN!'" www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I can't imagine how scary this was for the kids. My son is in the same soccer league and practices there on a different night. Some of his friends were evacuated when the suspects' SUV drove through their soccer field during a police chase. wnyt.com/top-stories/...

If ABC had suspended Kimmel for a week and had him apologize for stating incorrect facts, that would have been in line with precedent and probably would have let everyone muddle through. Instead, they made the suspension indefinite, didn't actually fire him, and have the worst of all worlds.

It's not working out so well in New York. The governor made it legal for anyone to get the vaccine, but my insurance company said they haven't decided whether to pay, so to get it, my family has to sign a contract agreeing to pay $271 per person if they decide not to cover it.

We've reached the stage of dystopia where the president of a world power is offering "scientific" proof that his wife is a woman because a U.S. conservative podcaster is spewing gender conspiracies. Shouldn't this be beneath the dignity of a head of state? www.bbc.com/news/article...

On this day 70 years ago, James Dean filmed a PSA for safe driving that retroactively came to be seen as a prophecy of his death. Dean died 13 days later in a car crash. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3W...

Virtually all topical political comedy disappeared from prime time after Vietnam because powerful people didn't want criticism where Americans could see it, and it never returned. History suggests that in a few years no one will even remember late night TV once existed.

It only seems like hypocrisy if you believe that the words he says express any higher meaning than the one true principle behind all conservative action, toadying to the momentary whims of the Dear Leader.

It's hard to tell the difference sometimes between RFK Jr. and L. Ron Hubbard.

Well, yes, they can. The elites don't actually listen to the bilge served up for the masses. As long as Kirk wasn't demanding women return to the kitchen, Latinos return to Mexico, and queers return to the closet at the soirees and gatherings where the elites hobnob, it was just profit-making noise.

When Putin's cronies seized control of major media outlets in Russia, the U.S. media had no trouble describing it for what it was. Here, it's just business.

It's not new that the media, political, and economic elites are allied to one another, or that their alliance is essentially a cordon sanitaire against the populace. What is new is that this time there aren't enough supporters of the regime among the people to mask the collaboration.

The thing about modern autocrats is that they aspire to the grandeur of monarchy but lack the dignity and restraint of traditional monarchs. Monarchs had a socially accepted legitimacy rooted in a social compact, while autocrats, at root, fear they lack legitimacy.

It's just another shakedown with the intent of intimidating the media into even more favorable coverage.

I became interested in the Pseudo-Sibylline Prophecy of the Nine Suns, only to discover the texts aren't available in one place, and many have never been translated. I've collected and translated versions in Latin, Greek, Welsh, Arabic, Ge'ez, and more: www.jasoncolavito.com/sibyls-proph...

Perhaps some of the anger and disconnect comes from discovering that the elites that occupy politics and national journalism are more loyal to their socioeconomic class than the ideologies they wield only as weapons. They see Kirk as good because he played by the rules of their class.

What, precisely, did they think was going to happen when they burned meth?

Today it is a thought crime to recall the words of a martyr of the Party, but tomorrow the Party will make those same words into official policy, which it will also be a thought crime to speak aloud.

You could strike the words "on the homeless" from this since it's also true of much of the discourse on every social issue. At root, the century-old rhetoric of eugenics persists, and many Americans still believe eliminating the undesirable and the weak will strengthen the genes.

The @dailymail.co.uk is wrong. James Dean was not "obsessed" with the Marfa lights. In fact, he had likely never heard of them since the myth of the Marfa lights only formed after his 1955 death, first published in a 1957 Coronet magazine article. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

That's because Charlie Kirk was part of the chattering class, and the chattering class's first concern is for itself. This particular act of political violence was a shock to them in a way the anonymous deaths of non-famous people who lack cable news contracts and sponsored podcasts can never be.

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My son's school just sent out a message saying that absentee rates are too high and that being sick is no longer an excuse to miss school unless the symptoms meet a certain severity threshold. I'm sure this is going to go well.

My publisher posted a photo of their new releases, including my apparently quite massive 400-page tome, "James Dean." The tagline for the post reads: "Who was the greatest idol of all time when the lights were off? Here's the truth about the life of a legendary rebel."

In simplistic terms, once a conservative Republican got shot (Reagan), the right went along with efforts to prevent political violence, until they felt they couldn’t win any other way.

Here in NY, Gov. Hochul did something similar, but so far we don't have real access to the vaccine because pharmacies haven't received legal guidance on conflicting federal vs. state rules or if an Rx is needed, and insurance companies are asking us to pay out of pocket for later reimbursement.

Only a highly paid writer for an elite magazine would look at the privileged scions of obscene wealth and call them "unremarkable" and their lives "barely exceptional."

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We seriously underrate how frequently adults' information and attitudes freeze in place around early middle age. Old folks, especially in government, all seem to have stopped learning in their 30s and keep reaching back to outdated talking points from the 1980s and '90s.

In the Gilded Age, the idle rich were expected to have intellectual, scientific, artistic, or cultural interests and to pursue them. That's why many aristocrats were also scientists or scholars or art patrons. Today's rich look at culture with contempt and care only for money.

I don't know why we still go through this kabuki dance of pretending there is a functioning government doing actual governance. If we just admitted that the Supreme Court has only one principle, that the law is whatever Donald Trump farts out on any given day, everything would make a lot more sense.

In the 20th century, tech companies imagined a world where robots did the manual labor so humans could focus on strategic, artistic, and intellectual work. Today, A.I. companies imagine a world where humans do the manual labor so the A.I.s can do all intellectual work. This is not an improvement.

Get ready for another round of wine moms going gaga over pseudoscience: Dan Brown returns tomorrow with a new novel in which Robert Langdon investigates the trendy mystery of human consciousness through "Prague's most ancient mythology" and "mystical lore."

"Tuna-Cheese-Macaroni-Loaf." The final hyphen weirdly implies "loaf" is the fourth ingredient.

Robert G. Endres's recent paper claiming that math demonstrates the probability that life on Earth is too complex to have arisen spontaneously, so directed panspermia is more likely, fails on an obvious point: OK, how did the alien life arise? arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18545

It's not unreasonable to argue that the last generation of serious people was born before World War II, and the elites since then have mostly been dilettantes and narcissists who occasionally stumble into success as their giant snowballs of money grow as they roll downhill.

The U.S. lost the Vietnam War.

All of our elites have long fallen for the fallacy that the President is the driver of destiny and everything that occurs during his term is the direct consequence of his will. The Great Man theory of history flatters their own egos, as well as their desire for monarchy.

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The CEO of an AI firm currently creating fake footage of an Orson Welles film they do not own the rights to triumphantly proclaims that AI will possibly "end human creativity," as humans consume only personalized, machine-generated pastiches. deadline.com/2025/09/ai-t...