I feel like a lot of the questions posed in this piece can be answered in an Occam's-like-fashion of simply acknowledging that everyone in charge of doing s**t like going through the files first to sooth thing over is unqualified, ignorant, and lazy. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-min...

Your periodic reminder that at whatever point the MAGA Catholics and the MAGA Protestants get tired of freaking out about the left, you're going to see some intense, irrational, deep-seated hatred like you have never seen before.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

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That peanut worm is a little too exciting for me you got anything else?

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Not going to bother cutting and pasting screenshots and links, but ahead and google if Harvard's history department teaches any kind of military history and I will bet you a round you will not be remotely surprised whatsoever at what the answer is.

consider this modern day christmas caroling, now where's that wassail bowl at

Fuck it is. 5G is a thing. He gets live updates beamed to his list realtime. Fucking thing is stored in the cloud. We're talking seconds of lag between the act and the list being updated.

There’s a lesson here about writing in the age of weaponized lies: Always precede false claims with giant red text, ideally wrapped in a <blink> tag, that says “THIS IS A LIE I AM REFUTING!!” But also, why is a book that makes this kind of lazy, bad-faith argumentation getting any accolades at all?

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

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Twelve years ago I wrote about the very real 19th century War On Christmas, how its aftermath left us the holiday we now know, and why, had it not occurred, we likely would just be going to work tomorrow. It's still a fascinating read, if you don't know the history. todkelly.com/2021/12/15/s...

Twelve years ago I wrote about the very real 19th century War On Christmas, how its aftermath left us the holiday we now know, and why, had it not occurred, we likely would just be going to work tomorrow. It's still a fascinating read, if you don't know the history. todkelly.com/2021/12/15/s...

Michael's great one-liner aside, FWIW & speaking as one of the olds: The "almost-here" male-pill breakthrough is a story that has popped up in newspapers & pop-science mags very five years or so since at least the late 70s, despite there being having been little to no progress in that time.

Merry Christmas, yall! Enjoy some of my favorite Christmas songs!

I get the instinct, but at this point I don't know what more Republicans have to do to convince you they'll happily torch that norm anyway if they see even a short-term advantage doing so.

Well, they can if their teacher is trans. Or gay. Or Muslim. If you're prof is some white straight Christian dude I have a feeling that kind of shoddy, lazy scholarship will properly earn you a bad grade.

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

This was incredibly predictable. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Trump was unpredictable, which is why no one predicted him. Trumpism, OTOH, was highly predicable, even if no one would have guessed its eventual name. Every single conservative media outlet had been pointing (and pushing) towards it for at least a decade.

Trump is the natural progression of the Democratic Party electing Barack Obama president, which triggered a realignment finishing the Civil Rights realignment between the parties. 1/3 NYT (1995): “Clinton Embraces a Proposal To Cut Immigration by a Third”: ordinary-times.com/2018/06/29/t...

With that smug smile on the interviewer’s face, you’d barely know that this is about the kidnapping, torture, and sexual assault of innocent people.

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It's good that Trump is looking weak these days, because I suspect six months ago SCOTUS doesn't have the confidence to rule this way.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

The youngest's girlfriend's extended family is coming over tomorrow for Christmas Eve dinner, so on Sunday I started making Black Mole, which we'll serve with grilled ribeyes. Two and a half days of off-and-on work later, and it's aaaalmost done.

I can't believe this is still a story in that universe.

So to paraphrase, this is entirely about her being African American.

So to paraphrase, this is entirely about her being African American.

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Not only are they bad, they are bad at their jobs.

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Wow. I'm actually surprised that tariffs have him Jim Beam that hard, and honestly the part of it I might be most surprised by is that anyone outside of the United States chooses to import it.

Bill Gates, famed healthcare provider.

That's how this kid lost their head.

killjoy feminists wouldn't let you spike a football into a toddler's face

"look he can carry eight pizza boxes" is hands down the funniest flex I have ever seen on twitter

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

Not to quibble, but this is the second-to-worst case. The worst-worst case, which I honestly believe is still coming, is penalties for any doctor offering vaccinations.

A thing that still amazes me after all this time is how bad and lazy they all are about literally everything.

Haven't watched yesterday's episode, but one of the things I've really been enjoying about Pluribus is trying to figure out what the show is *about*, really.

Not just evil; evil and embarrassingly dopey.

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It would be interesting to see a study of whether there's any correlation between "tendency to switch sports team fandoms" and "tendency to convert to a new religion" in adulthood. Does Rod Dreher paint his face in the colors of the Hungarian national team on gamedays?

For example, I like the Seahawks and Ducks football, but only on the most casual take-or-leave level because I didn't (A) grow up here or (B) watch football as a kid. But the Dodgers & Lakers, the teams fell in love with as a six-year old kid? I physically *feel* their wins and losses.