Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

BREAKING: the data centers are no longer satisfied with our water and energy and have now started getting into the snack cabinet

You know a football stadium deal is bad when a baseball newsletter weighs in

Fox News is no longer on the TVs at the gym (yay!) but big Fox does a Sunday show so I had this face staring back at me while I was on the elliptical

Reporters are too gentle with farmers. This three-time Trump voter gets to shit on Democrats w/ no pushback. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I watched Christmas Vacation last night and just realized the visiting dads/grandpas both played former Nixon A.G. John Mitchell (John Randolph in All the President's Men and E.G. Marshall in JFK)

The pre-show huddles in Taylor Swift: The End of an Era were good content because T.S. and her team were speaking to each other and not rotely appealing to some mysterious bearded man in the sky

This JCPenney stereo was maybe my all-time favorite Christmas gift. Shades of Matthew Sweet's boyhood.

How many days has Epstein been front-page news since @semaforben.bsky.social wrote on July 20 that the "larger Epstein belief system is QAnon for people who went to college"?

Ugh, please don't publish assertions about the supposed "economic impact" of the new stadium. I've seen the "study", it is GARBAGE. Newspapers shouldn't be repeating propaganda as news. www.kansascity.com/news/local/w...

What happened here -- I thought Chris Berman was retired by ESPN, then a bunch of years went by, and then somehow, like Palpatine, he was just back, yelling at me again, out of breath, turning red from lack of oxygen, ruining everything

imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."

Even if Bari Weiss' concerns about the piece are sincere (doubtful) you don't pull the piece two days before air. 60 Minutes, for better and worse, is a battleship, not some alt-weekly.

The Legal Eagles poster looks like Robert Redford is greatly amusing himself telling an offensive joke while Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah suffer nearby

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

There should be an uncle’s cut of Taylor Swift docuseries The End of an Era. It’s just stuff like semis being loaded, conveyance systems, outdoor weather meetings.

"I am more like the person who straps on skates once or twice a year; I can make it across without falling, but not in a way anyone would describe as graceful."

Between the speech, the Truth Social posts, the press-availability rants, and the presidential photo plaques, it's as if Trump is trying to surround himself with his own opinions, the way hoarders want to surround themselves with their own junk.

the sentence "Much of the menu at 1587 Prime reads like magnetic poetry for people with expense accounts" had me lol'ing

This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.

Marked 30th anniversary of Heat by re-reading James Wolcott's 2003 tribute. He was right to highlight the music (Kronos Quartet, Moby, Eno, et al.), "a tapestry of electronic pulsations that suggests the uneasy night thoughts of neglected machines."

It's great how straight Rob Reiner played Marty DiBergi in Spinal Tap. The only look-at-me moment is the intro, when he does the funny thing where he can't decide what to do with his arms. youtu.be/sEvQHxmrgNA

Crazy that Tapestry and Blue were recorded at the same building at the same time

“Post-liberalism” means two things: 1) I like the fascism, but I don’t think of myself as the sort of person who’d be into something so uncouth. 2) The woke made me do it, but since everyone’s opposed to liberty now, why don’t we acknowledge that some races, genders, and religions are lesser.

this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

Listening to a lot of The Mavericks today in honor of the passing of Raul Malo, a simply unforgettable singer who was one of the great male voices in pop music. He was 60. RIP. apnews.com/article/raul...

The Bic corporation was started by one man who needed to shave, write something down, and set something on fire at the same time

In this segment, Senator Schmitt insists he knows nothing about a major scandal, goes on an extended rant filled with lies and smears, insults Stephanopolous and his show directly, and is generally a preening asshole. Yet I’m sure they’ll welcome him back for more.

This really was one of the most heartbreaking articles I’ve read in a while. I don’t think people comprehend the scale of destruction wrought by this administration already, not even close nymag.com/intelligence...

Your classmates were right, my guy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Listened to a 90s playlist today. I thought my car might take flight when this came on.

Se7en is a Christmas movie because people talk about the Bible and Brad Pitt gets a present at the end.

when you're rich, you get treated like a savant for getting sub-index fund returns on your gambling addiction

Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.

TPUSA brands itself as “guiding citizens through development of knowledge, skills, values, and motivation so they can meaningfully engage in their communities to restore traditional American values like patriotism” but what it really does is it finds the biggest crybabies and snitches in your area

everything about this is obscene but here's the real tell: "Witkoff, who hasn’t traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin."

"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."

Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

“The world says ‘discover yourself.’ But Jesus said, ‘deny yourself!’” Graham thundered. Yet is Prestonwood Baptist denying itself? Has it denied itself its manicured campus, its gleaming buildings, its fitness center, its media company, its budgets, its empire?

David Brooks: Why are Democrats pursuing something that's wrong-footing the leader of the opposite party and dividing his coalition? Question answers itself, brother.

He has managed to use a real tuxedo to achieve the effect of a tuxedo print tshirt

My guess is the bar for being punished due to intoxication on international Congressional travel is *very* high

Quite a kicker to this article on Lawrence Summers' friendship with Epstein www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Blending, like he's making a frappe

Be someone who is remembered like Alice Wong is being remembered, that's the goal.

Skimmed this 1998 book, which hasn't aged well. As we've seen both with W and Trump, white rural people get pretty chill about the federal governmet's power once a Republican is in the White House.