As someone who never went on a date in high school I support normalizing this

Redistricting was always a gentleman's agreement: We do it every 10 years to reflect the new census numbers. But this recent wave of chaos is exactly what happens when politics is ratcheted up, and we stop electing gentlemen. (And gentlewomen.)

Would love to see a Hamnet blooper reel

Someone should really write a book about Abraham Lincoln

Today's Anti-Knowledge newsletter: The Hopeless Corruption of the American Sports Media: www.anti-knowledge.com/p/the-hopele...

I'm seeing smart people who I like praise this commercial, and I'm honestly not seeing what they're seeing. It is the worst kind of nostalgia bait, just dropping familiar lines into the mouths of heavily CGI-ed celebrities. It's as if ChatGPT created the whole thing.

I propose Americans condense athletic titles into one word like the British do. So instead of being a "basketball player," LeBron James would be a "basketballer." Patrick Mahomes would be a "footballer," etc.

The least-Googled phrase of all time: "Kid Rock sex tape"

I've now seen all the Best Picture nominees and here's how I would rank them: 1. Bugonia 2. The Secret Agent 3. One Battle After Another 4. Sinners 5. Hamnet 6. Marty Supreme 7. Train Dreams 8. Sentimental Value 9. Frankenstein 10. F1

This is an outrageous lie. Everyone knows Millennials aren't as smart as Gen Xers.

I am convinced a lot of people start businesses solely so they can star in cringey local commercials

Run, do not walk, to see “Secret Agent,” the Best International Film Oscar nominee from Brazil. Edge-of-your-seat tension with a beautiful ending. And Wagner Moura is sensational.

The @nationalreview.bsky.social commenters are starting to catch on

My childhood celebrity crush

I spent most of the day contemplating the specific ways our everyday lives would be different if the Muppets were real

The government food pyramid is junk (and why Sir Mix-a-Lot should be HHS secretary): Me today at @nationalreview.bsky.social:

It appears some in the British media took a cynical view of this little-known UK band hitting it big in the U.S. in 1993:

I kind of want someone to write a story about me just to see if anyone is familiar with my thinking

The entire downfall of society can be traced to the fact that in the internet era, men no longer have to be decent, attractive humans in order to see a naked woman

So I guess men can't have hobbies anymore

Was Nicki Minaj’s phone on silent?

a veritable who’s that

OK but have we searched for "Punxsutawney Phil" in the Epstein files yet

It's time to kill the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame (me today at @wsj.com): www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

Unlike you rookies, I practice rodent-based meteorology year-round

Gave my 14yo daughter the gift of showing her Pee Wee's Big Adventure for the first time. (But actually, it's a curse, because she'll never see a better movie. Downhill from here.)

JACK KEROUAC - ON THE ROAD (1957): "Kerouac is supposed to be the spokesman for the 'beat' generation. Who beat them and why is not clear. His writing...is full of a provocative sound and fury but with about as much philosophical meaning as a Sears-Roebuck catalogue." St. Louis Post-Disp. 10/6/1957

At some point, Noel and Liam Gallagher are going to buy up every existing early video of themselves and use AI to digitally remove their giant unibrows

It Was Just an Accident, nominated for a Best International Feature Film Oscar, is better than at least three of the films nominated for Best Picture

THE PRODIGY - FAT OF THE LAND (1997): "It's great partying music, but shallow casual listening....awfully thin on substance and overly thick on hype, which could spell trouble for the Prodigy's attempt in bringing electronica to the masses." Waterloo (CA) Region Record, 7/3/1997

Reading the Epstein files is making me the think the reason I’m still poor is that I’m an excellent speller

I did not expect to be delighted by a Dua Lipa-produced documentary series, but "Camden" on Hulu (about the trendy London neighborhood of the same name) is really enjoyable.

I had forgotten that on Family Ties, Alex P. Keaton loses his virginity after taking a date to a speech by Milton Friedman. Monetarism: the ultimate aphrodisiac.

So stupid I laughed for 10 minutes

"Hell hath no fury like a Housewife mildly inconvenienced." - Bob the Drag Queen on the Traitors after show

Catherine O'Hara, folks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLGs...

The cruelty and dishonesty seen in Minneapolis is further evidence the Republican Party has sold its soul to a man who is against the party's very reason for existing - me today at @nationalreview.bsky.social:

Just when you think Minnesota has suffered enough, here comes a Springsteen protest song

In this month's @nationalreview.bsky.social magazine, I offer up a love letter to America's most efficient storage system: The shoebox.

If Tim Walz wants Tom Homan to ease up with the ICE brutality, all he has to do is slip Homan $50,000 in a Cava bag

Should I be concerned that the guy who invented the diet I am currently on collapsed and died of natural causes?

The Onion famously ran this story encapsulating the feeling of American helplessness after 9/11. I am now flag cake lady, just with baguettes.

They lie about everything, all the time, no matter how big or small, because they can. There is nobody left who can stop them.

Trump, a weakling trying to appear strong, didn't have a foreign war to join so he declared one on the American people.

“Feels like -38”

This looks and sounds like a letter read aloud in a Wes Anderson movie by one of his precocious boys or broken men

You can tell which female basketball players grew up playing volleyball because they block shots with two hands and it looks awesome

THE WHITE STRIPES (2001): "Critics are largely unimpressed...White Blood Cells has shipped 12,000 copies...But, bearing in mind that, earlier this year...Creed shipped more than 20 million copies...it hardly suggests a major shift in rock and roll." National Post (CA) 8/31/01

Indiana’s dominance isn’t as unlikely as it seems. The team’s century of haplessness took place under a rigid system that no longer exists. And when the rules change, so do outcomes. | Christian Schneider https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/the-supreme-court-wins-a-national-championship/

How Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a high school defensive back, helped Indiana win the National Championship (me today at @nationalreview.bsky.social):