Who doesn’t feel this pain in their soul?

It’s always a highlight of the year.

‘Tis the season.

Here’s the thing. If you see foreign populations and their attendant culture, music, food, politics, issues, celebrations as a PROBLEM and not a tremendous ASSET in your life, you’re not just bigoted but you’re also deliberately choosing a more boring life.

Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.

Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth They say in Heaven, love comes first We'll make Heaven a place on Earth Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth

I always like it when PBS says that viewers like me.

Revisiting Cosmic Thing is one of the better musical choices I made this year. It certainly gets my vote.

Look what you made me do. I don't have time for this. I have so much work to get done today. This is all your fault.

@paulisci.bsky.social Have you ever done A Brief History of Technology Is Taking Our Jobs? It feels like something I’ve seen but I can’t find it.

I just have to say that this was the very first episode of @extrahotgreat.com I ever listened to (although I had been listening to Again With This for awhile and was longtime TWoP reader).

unfortunately a good metaphor for democracy right now

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days 🧵

I’d like to thank @hodgman.bsky.social and E Pluribus Motto for helping me kick butt at bar trivia tonight.

A+ headline, no notes.

This is either incredibly depressing or incredibly hopeful. Or both.

Thank you @billscher.bsky.social Absolutely right. www.impeachtrumpagain.org @fsfp.bsky.social “impeachment is the lone and proper constitutional remedy for an unconstitutional president and his unconstitutional apparatchiks.” washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/19/f... 1/

I liked when the ugly late night drama was Jay Leno hiding in a closet.

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Is there a third candidate who *does* clear out vampire dens but also *forbids* children from playing in the abandoned copper mine? Because that seems ideal.

Whether it's Trump calling Jews "Shylocks" or Democrats protesting the razing of Gaza, there's plenty of antisemitism on both sides.

This is the last thing the BBC needs

I remember when I was in middle school he gave me one of Lawrence Block’s Bernie Rhodenbarr books. I have loved that genre of thief mysteries ever since.

No spoilers, but in today’s column the @biblioracale recommends a book to me.

It pales compared to a lot of your photos, but 2000 people in small town Gettysburg was a pretty good turnout to say #NoKings

The most incredible part of the grift is coming to power when there is no chaos by campaigning on a platform of "I'm going to end the chaos," then overseeing an era of chaos he created and saying "See? We're ending the chaos."

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I like my odds.

These were both important albums to me at the time. I think I’m voting Smithereens but I won’t begrudge either winner.

Peter David wrote all my favorite Hulk comics when I was a kid. Then, years later, presumably not knowing that I was a fan, he showed up at a book signing of mine to wait in line and give me a signed copy of one of HIS books! Baller move. RIP to one of the greats.

Sometimes I dream of Carmans Country Kitchen, the amazing defunct brunch place in south Philadelphia.

🎶 boy, boy, crazy boy 🎶

This has been a great week for my business, actually, where we make graphs of stock prices

I live in a small town in a very red county. We still had 600 people turn up this afternoon to protest the nonsense going on. #HandsOff

Conan should absolutely hire @paulisci.bsky.social to help consult on next year’s Oscar’s monologue.

the clearest proof Jackie Robinson was one of the most consequential people in history is that nearly a century after he started playing baseball, cowards are still working tirelessly to shut him up

The first Trump administration felt like it was full of 1960s Batman villains who’d use a flock of birds to steal a bank shaped like a giant ceramic pig. The second Trump administration feels like it’s full of 1980s Batman villains who’d break into your home and shoot your daughter to make a point.

Yeah, but the Indians still couldn’t win the World Series that year.

So Americans are illegally crossing into Mexico?

Trump 10 minutes later, "Free speech is back"

Behold! My 2025 #Oscars menu, here to satisfy all that you Concrave. (As always, I'd like to thank the Academy, but not as much as I'd like to thank my wife, for her exacting editing and ingenious punmanship.)

just let them talk to the whales already!

Adriana is one of the good ones getting screwed over right now. She is far from the only one, but she is one I am honored to consider a friend.

Crossword puzzles

I’d like to hear the losing team blame God after the game.

I feel awful not just for the students who will be affected but also for the faculty/administrators who poured their hearts and time into developing programs only to have the money pulled halfway through. (It me. I’m that.)

Very strong acronym game here www.politico.com/live-updates...

Remember: if you ever think "the political situation I find myself in will one day make an award-winning movie", you are probably in danger.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.