Up until right about now I have been chuckling whenever the craziness gets to this level of hyper-online meme-poisoned nonsense. Because it seems harmless and I want them to waste their energy, attempting to make cruelty the point, in pointless, hence harmless ways. But they are getting SO crazy.

"For decades our borders have been flooded by an unregulated and infinite influx of abstracta, many of them not 'the best' - with no care given to the question of how they can be assimilated to empirical ways of thinking & being. There is no 'melting pot', yet members of both major parties ...

It's a victory so long as Trump resists Iran's demand for a nuclear weapon in exchange for re-opening the Strait. Here's why that's bad for Joe Biden.

Given numbers are (apparently) abstracta, it's kinda tricky working out how math-stuff relates to, you know - stuff. To paraphrase Wittgenstein's early notebooks: given there could be logic, without a world, how can there be logic, given a world?

Damn this guy needs to cut down on the ‘amber waves of grain’, if you know what I mean.

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

Sigh. Senpai will never notice me, will he? bsky.app/profile/jhol...

Jeremy Carl is not one of the worst people in the Trump orbit but this interview by Douthat is one of Douthat's more athletic attempts to help a radical guy out by going out of his way to whisper him into seemingly sensible moderate-ness. Douthat = anti-Chotiner. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/o...

Good. How long before right-wingers decide it's linked to bee autism?

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We're in a situation in which Trump wants to look strong and competent and the only way to do that is to use the military, which is strong and competent, and then claim personal credit for so much strength and competence. Prideful foreign adventurism via premeditated stolen valor. Not great.

Today was not great weather for flight photos. It was pretty overcast. But I did manage to get this blue jay with a nut. I like this one. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

I stopped what I was doing and, sure enough, it was because he was about to ruin the image and style that I was used to but now no longer am. Ain't that a thing. That was great.

Old punk rockers age weakly. Got nothin left to say. Old art rockers are fine. Kim Gordon' new album is pretty good - not genius but solid. So I guess she's an artist.

OTOH, maybe complete the system of German idealism.

This gets the origin wrong. This nickname dates only to the 80's. William 'the Fridge' Perry was nicknamed, after that nickname, 'the Moveable Feast' - i.e. a large but mobile container of much food. And so championship Bears-era Chicago became 'Paris on da Prairie' via Fitzgerald novel title.

Listening to Rogan and Dave Smith rag on Trump incompetence and corruption, while retconning insanely. I think a lot of Trump cons are going to turn pure retcons in the next couple years. 'Isn't it ironic that D's will take the House and Senate and investigate and maybe impeach. And yet! ...

Karen demanding to speak to the manager, directed by the Coen brothers.

Full of insane-making moments but I understand why Klein didn’t push harder. Caldwell poses as detached but is bought into a view of the deep state he concedes is ‘occult’. I guess it’s detached that he sees that? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

🧵I'm going to be writing a piece called "Why there is no liberal media." Main points: 1) There's plenty of money on the left 2) It's locked up in wasteful TV ads 3) There are some prosperous left media outlets, but they almost never help small or medium people 4) The right wing does the opposite

Receiving this sort of flagrant spam these days - not even a subject line - evokes nostalgia for days of yore when Nigerian princes walked the earth. I imagine the poor old cobbler of spam, who has never heard of AI, in his fallen-down cottage, which still only has dial-up.

Realism vs. Reality

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

For the sake of the grim exercise, let me rephrase this in baby Nietzsche-ese, like a golden retriever could (half) understand. In "Genealogy of Morals" Nietzsche is in effect mapping a way to get 'beyond good and evil', per the title of another book. As my old prof Hans Sluga used to say ...

The people who complained about weaponization of the justice system against Trump have not only engaged in true weaponization, they have also purged every public official who investigated Trump

"What do you think of U.S. foreign policy?" "I think it would be a good idea."

I like Moyn (I realise a lot of folks around here don't.) But I do not understand this post. The argument seems to be that because Bernick, Kreis & Shugerman are right in what they are saying, that makes it 'far less defensible' that they are saying it. Why? balkin.blogspot.com/2026/03/birt...

Michael Flynn illegally took money from the Turkish government while he, a retired head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was advising Trump's campaign and serving as his National Security Advisor. He got caught. Trump is now forcing his DOJ to pay Flynn $1.2 mn for having prosecuted this crime.

Bret Stephens glitching: the war is 'going better than you think' because it's a fiasco but a better fiasco than your ancestors had to fight - ever heard of WW I & II? There are third world children going to bed without any fiasco who would love to be in your place. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/o...

If American troops start dying in large numbers, the fact that Johnson thinks it wasn’t anyone’s intention for them even to be there makes it worse not better.

Which one is the one that Namor wants to do - come to think of it. (As a child his inconsistent stance never struck me.)

At 5.5k followers I will reveal a zero-day exploit (involving interpreting 'plus' as quus) latent in later-Wittgensteinian philosophy, causing all beetles in everyone's boxes to be released at time t, so everyone can see everyone's. If later I turn into a right-winger I will fix it with blockchain.

And the real story is: why would Weiss care? CBS is a token in an oligarchic, elite favour-exchange system. Her boss is happy. They used to say: if you are getting it free, YOU'RE the product. Now it's more like: if they are overpaying for it, only to degrade the product, IT'S not the product.

I'm continuing my circuit of right-wing podcasts, trying to get a sense for how conservatives are responding to Iran and I declare the National Review editors the hands-down winners in the 'tits on a boar' uselessness category - a competitive event! www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the...

IMHO, it is impeachable for the President to amuse himself by telling obvious lies about the war he started with no plan and is losing.

Too busy for further laments about politics today. Here's an old Silver Age Flash panel. Simpler times.

So we're just at war with Iran going forward I guess?

Supreme Court Justices pickled in kooky partisan conspiracy theories is not great for public trust - one might think.

And they say Gibson is prophetic.

eh heh heh yes YOUR visual style, master, eh heheh in those images you uploaded that YOU made eh heh *slimy wink*

The 'not a moral issue' response could do with clarification. It's hard to see how the death penalty could be not one. I guess people just say that if they are absolutely sure it is morally fine. I wish the survey had asked about atheism, agnosticism and not being Christian.

Colin Powell: Pottery Barn rules. You break it, you own it. Trump: Pottery Barn rule. We broke it, we rule it.To pay for the pottery we break we need to own the pottery & sell it ourselves. Pottery Barn can never again be permitted to hold the US hostage. The world wants pottery it can come to us.

It's not just repulsive and vapid, the whole thing is a glaringly flagrant attempt to hide the pea - like a sloth trying to beat you at the three shell game, so there's no possibility you'll miss the trick. What are the steps? substack.com/@thenewdiges...

I've been cycling through weird right-wing podcasts, taking the temperature, and I listened to a bit of Ben Shapiro, just to see how he's taking it. He is absolutely blustering through in the most absurd way. He is indignantly mocking our ungrateful allies for not enthusiastically signing up ...

Flaunting norms. Pfft. The preferred term is 'performative normativity'. They are engaging in performative normativity. Also known as theatrical conformativity.

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