Gerrymandering the Presidency? Talk me down! Unlike the other 48, Maine and Nebraska award Presidential electors not by winner of the state, but by Congressional District. After they’re done gerrymandering, what if all the red states do the same? Could they gerrymander the Presidency?

I know this is obvious, but the way, the mechanism, by which a people’s standard of living falls, the way a populace is impoverished, is by making everything unaffordable. You don’t take money out of their pockets, you raise the cost of everything. It’s the Company Store model.

LBJ had more ballroom in his custom made Farah slacks than Trump has in his entire East Wing fantasy building.

I will never forget how Trump and his traitorous sidekick Vance treated Zelensky at the White House. No punishment is to severe for that disgusting display of arrogant stupidity.

I am currently powering my entire home with scooter batteries abandoned by drunks during SXSW. Oh, and by the way, SXSW sucks syphlitic balls.

Well, damn! It looks like the House has finally figured out how to deal with the bad apples without giving advantage to either side: both parties take out the trash at the same time, like they do for states joining the Union.

Sooner or later, this kinda shit is what always happens when you give too much power to one person. Sooner or later the wrong person gets that power. This is the flaw in monarchies. And I guess in our system now.

Stuart is absolute legend, people. At least go and read the gofundme page

Happy Easter! He is risen! Or as the kids would say, He’s rizzin’!

Happy Easter, Christians! With a word from Jesus Christ himself, in his final sermon. ‘Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire…For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink, I was a stranger, and ye took me not in…’ Matthew 25

According to that fat clown Trump, we don’t need the Hormuz Strait, we have all the oil we need. Yes, more oil is produced here in the US than is consumed, but it’s not American oil. It’s ExxonMobile oil, BP, Shell, or Conoco oil, privately owned, and they’ll sell it to the highest bidder.

Deep, in detail and context, this man’s emotional intelligence is astonishing. No Irish mayor has done better.

I’m making a list of all the times Iran has attacked the US, or visited violence upon us that would justify bombing them, and tell the truth, it’s kinda short. Anybody want to add to it?

So, Iran is pretty pissed off, and ok, they’re not capable of making an atomic bomb. But the certainly have the material and technical ability to make some dirty bombs, and that veils not be good.

Something truly amazing happened today. I was knapping a biface, as one does, and has done for 3 million years, just to keep the streak going, and because this millennia is no time to toss out the things that kept us alive all that time, and mostly because I find it meditative.

I keep hearing “Regime change has never been achieved through the air. Never!” This is a stupid war, but has everyone forgotten Japan? Hiroshima, Nagasaki, boom, boom, and it was over. Unconditional.

Today, my wife, Carolyn Wonderland, and I celebrate our 15th anniversary. The ‘crystal’ anniversary, they say. So…meth, I guess? A big ball of meth?

The most beautiful I have ever seen New York City was after the blizzards of 2006, 2010, and 1996. I remember people skiing down Park Avenue. Wish I was there for this one.

Where would we be without the manic depressives among us? Still in the caves, most likely.

ChatGTP has becomes more useless every update. It’s just vague bullshit

By now it should be plain to all that there is a global conspiracy of oligarchs intent on destroying the rule of law. If they succeed, if we fail, our children and grandchildren will live as serfs.

5 years ago, I posted this on Twitter: “We need to find a place to kill Russians.” Today:

The news has always been subordinate to business interests. Remember all those ads for Boeing aircraft 20 years ago? What viewer would be moved to buy one?There are endless examples of what were just bribes to the networks. Newspapers no different: “Go easy on our advertisers.” But..

Kids today are too addicted to their phones. They need to be sitting in front of the tv all day like their parents did,

Holy fuck. - people goin nuts over normal winter weather, acting like it’s the zombie apocalypse

This fucking Greenland shitshow should never have reached the international level. It reveals the disfunction of our government that it wasn’t nipped in the bud domestically.

Goddam, I love being alive! Best thing ever, made all the divine by there being a time limit.

Fundamentally, what we have here is the triumph of people who are stupid enough to think they are really smart. And they are angry, because all their lives people have dismissed their supposed brilliance, and now their hare-brained ideas are the law of the land, but they are just as stupid.

Remembering the Civil Rights struggle of the 60’s, the non-violent strategy of Reverend King was effective, but didn’t actually achieve results until the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, and others became the alternative. “You want the honey, or you want the sting?” You need both.

Tim Walz is a fool. ‘Safe and legal’ protests are not going to work. These people won’t stop until they are stopped.

I’m getting a Knights of The Golden Circle vibe, from this administration.

It might be time to start shooting back.

“Just because your slut mother shat you out on this side of an imaginary line doesn’t make you a better person than the guy you’re deporting.” Had to be said.

The Enshittification of Christmas Back before my time, Christmas was a drunken bacchanalian revelry, when the poor roamed wealthy neighborhoods demanding liquor from their social superiors, threatening to poop on their porch if they didn’t make with the hooch. It’s been downhill ever since.

Trump is looting the treasury and tearing down the country at machine speed. It reminds me of King Croesus’ reply to Cyrus after Sardis fell to Cyrus of Persia in 546 BC ‘Ha, see my men plundering your city,” boasted Cyrus. ‘No, my King, it is you they rob, your city they burn”, said Croesus.

The crudeness of our discourse, the bestial degeneration of our humanity to one another, the obscene concentration of wealth and attendant corruption, the intrusive surveillance, the targeting of an enemy within, are all inevitable outcomes of an unending state of war.

We live in a time of intentional obfuscation, when it is actually a time of revelation. When mounted beggars race their steeds to exhaustion, and leave them wet in the stables. It clarifies. Witness the revelatory exposure of the inversely proportional correlation between dignity and wealth.

It makes me laugh to hear the Trump regime portray Americans as the victims of the drug cartels. First, they don’t really give a fuck. But mainly because we’re not the victims we are the creators and sustainers of the cartels. Our insatiable demand for drugs has ruined those countries.

We have a government of sadists.

Even the Nazis didn’t shoot shipwreck survivors.

There are two kinds of problems: problems you can solve with money and those you can’t. We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.

Ok, AI can do things in a second that might take me many hours. I’m thinking summaries, research, analysis. That seems very efficient, but I’m burning maybe 100 calories per hour, like 20 watts. AI is burning 100 million calories an hour at just one data center. So, is it really more efficient?

The pre-planned Project 2025 blitzkreig attack on our democracy has culminated, outrun the supply lines of public support. They’re going to try to consolidate their gains, hamstrung by incompetence, internal division, damaged by overreach. Strategic wisdom sees a successful counter attack in order.

It’s both funny and tragic that we could almost all our problems by simply not listening to really stupid people.

“Modernity is individualism and oil.” -Edmund G. Brown, Jr.

Remember, all the people you step on while you’re on your way up…you get to step on them again on your way down!

AI will make us collectively smarter. And individually dumber, very much like the internet. Not coincidentally, it will also continue the trend of making us collectively richer, and individually poorer. I could explain why, but it involves math, and nobody will pay me for it anyway.

The Oval Office looks like a 19th Century whorehouse.

Good God Trump is an absolute pestilence of a man. Disgusting