the sweatiest 90 seconds imaginable. dire.

went looking for some new glasses with mom and when i tried a pair on she said i looked like james dobson. not gonna come back from this one.

bari weiss is in hot water, fielding accusations of both malice and incompetence, but it’s not too late for her to clear this whole thing up by sitting down for an honest, straightforward interview with isaac chotiner.

I just wrote an article about this and decided not to publish it yet. It is in the DOJ files (file got renamed after originally published and taken down. It’s online now). But too many unknowns about whether the letter itself is real or not. Some additional info though:

watching 60 minutes

you have to pick your spots but rereporting is good, it adds weight to important stories and keeps them in circulation, plus all this. “everybody knows all this already” is an easy trap to fall into if your job is reading the news

as predicted, the white house’s refusal to comment on this story is extraordinarily telling. if bari doesn’t understand that, she’s not cut out for the job. if she does, she’s not worthy of it.

this story has been designed in a lab to confuse foreigners

I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

overheard at the airport bar: “just got a new job where they give me a code name! pretty cool!” “what’s the code name?” “muskrat!” not sure this guy gets the point of code names

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Beautiful

surprised at the lack of fidelity to the source material. no mr whittaker, no connie, no eugene. very strange, but i trust nolan's vision.

been sitting on a pitch for a Drag Me to Hell sequel where Christine has to fight her way out of hell, Doom-style. Kind of an Alien/Aliens vibe shift; The Raid but with a Frank Frazetta-fantasy aesthetic. I'm sure we can get Justin Long in there somehow.

You know, I know of another "editor in chief" who refused to let the story of your life go to print until He'd gotten comment from the most important source of all: love.

even if i were to grant bari's argument that there was some sort of egregious journalistic lapse here that warranted punting the segment, doing so this clumsily, this close to broadcast, is just comically disastrous newsroom management. clown show.

say what you will about bari weiss, i’m still excited for that pinker v douthat situation to settle the existence of God once and for all

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

i don’t think his most savage hater would dream of doing this

Pound/dollar for pound/dollar, the good people can do in buying and wiping out debt (especially medical debt!) is astonishing, and it baffles me that more people with very medium amounts of wealth don’t do it when it would mean so much to people who are drowning

everyone reading jack's post here almost certainly has someone in their life who knows more about religion than either douthat or pinker and your ideas about religion would be far more informed by taking that person out to coffee than by watching bari's televised jousting match.

banning generative AI for things like research and writing is about a lot more than just banning generative AI. it’s about fostering a positive culture of curiosity, creative thinking, integrity, and intellectual rigor that renders the very idea of using generative AI nonsensical.

heard some of you weren’t striking up the band and letting thr fireflies dance with the silver moon sparkling

Heard a lot of you chatting shit about Newgrange, and I'll admit it's a solid B-tier henge, but Avebury is the thinking man's henge - it encircles a large part of a village. You can live in a henge.

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

who killed laura pawmer

This is the shit that'll get them. We already have footage that all the public has seen (even the dopes) & photos of them together. A smart crook would leave a few photos/emails/notes in the files to show that what contact he did have with Epstein wasn't as bad as others, but instead they do this

been thinking a lot lately about how a decade plus of internet memes and late nite tv jokes about epstein have kind of numbed us all to the reality that he and people associated with him stand accused of some of the darkest, most horrifying crimes imaginable.

best to ever do it

It's your birthday, Duane.

jake paul getting his ass beat is a good start but it’s not enough. we cannot rest until every guy named jake is taken down a peg.

the three kings seeing the star of bethlehem

andrew is one of the best human beings i have ever had the pleasure of knowing and deserves one hundred billion dollars

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

still can’t figure out why the white house doesn’t just release a fake epstein file that’s like “obama, soros, end of list.” sure, folks would call their bluff, but i feel like the ensuing drama would be preferable to thousands of 8 1/2 x 11 pages all screaming “WE ARE ALL GUILTY AS HELL” in unison.

nothing to see here

this is the good stuff. keep your olivia nuzzi "scandal." this is the content i crave.

Re-sharing my final byline of the year, my interview with Rian Johnson about 'Wake Up Dead Man.' We talked about growing up "young, dumb and full of Christ," the "Pottery Barn" aesthetics of evangelicalism, and Michael W. Smith. Scooby Dooby Doo!

“Welcome home, sweetie! How was your flight? I bought that cereal you like. Your old bedroom is now a jigsaw puzzle room. Remember Carla from church? She drowned.”

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

🐐 Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina [London]: Impensis Jacobi Parkinson, 1792-1796. [Source]

Americans are tired of what coastal elites have been shoving down their throats, so I think elevating fresh voices like the vice president, the head of one of the most valuable companies on the planet, a Times columnist, and a Jeffrey Epstein associate who teaches at Harvard is a risk worth taking.

Evil shit.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...