Wondering how the "no fat soldiers" directive is going to affect Sgt. Snorkel.

Historians of the future: WWIII began when several top American commanders had the same idea about getting out of a meeting with Pete Hegseth.

Getting the feeling from Cruz's statement on the Kimmel affair and a few others that some of the smarter Republicans are starting to figure out that Trump is unpopular.

8 down, 40 to go.

At some point an American President--not this one--is going to have to go to South Korea and totally eat shit.

Getting really tired of the rhetorical position on the left that the opinion you don't like is always "white."

And they say liberals don't know how to appeal to young men.

I think the regime is exaggerating both the popularity of Charlie Kirk and the impact of his death--I haven't had a single meatspace conversation about it.

I keep being tempted to subscribe to the Post again--they're practically giving it away now--and I keep resisting the temptation.

The critical liberal error was to mistake victory in the Cold War as proof of a universal longing for freedom rather than a universal longing for cheap consumer goods.

Regarding the Red Hood affair, no doubt in Hell Charlie Kirk is smiling at the thought of getting one more trans woman fired.

Looks like the Kirk shooting was committed by someone who had a plan to get away afterwards, which seems curiously old-fashioned.

How long before the leather-bound $150 facsimile edition of the Epstein birthday book?

Something happened today which I wasn't sure was possible, which is someone wanting to have a meeting on Microsoft Teams.

Wow, that whole quorum-breaking foofaraw really accomplished absolutely nothing.

Seven down, forty-one to go.

Anti-colonial Left: Winston Churchill was bad, actually. National Conservatives: We agree! Anti-colonial Left: Not like that.

Has anyone done a parallel study of the British and Siamese Revolutions of 1688?

The Brothers Karamazov.

Seeing a lot about how Trump wants to militarize DC, but what people are forgetting is that this has a history that long predates Trump's political career. Republicans have always hated Home Rule and loved screwing with DC.

In the argument over why so many American institutions are complicit with Trump people are overestimating the role of sympathy with Trump's agenda and underestimating simple cowardice.

Story of a worker accused of using an anti-AI slur but let off once they establish that it was just a racial slur.

Go for it.

Interesting the spread of the term "rock star" at a time when literal rock stars are becoming extinct.

Looking at New York Times bestselling paperbacks lists from the 80s and man, Jim Davis ruled that decade. The Reagan era was really the Garfield era.

The only thing I will say about the "what to do about young men" debate is that it seems remarkably free of the input of young men.

Go for it.

Possible dissertation topics in the history of astrology in modern America.

Getting tired of people saying "Trump's latest ploy will obviously work." Maybe it will and maybe it won't, but this defeatism is tiresome.

Me too

Interesting how you never see the AI boyfriend/girlfriend thing in a same-sex context.

I'm glad Charles Schulz died early enough to be spared the "Charlie Brown had hoes" meme.

6 down, 42 to go.

The Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Fox News. Going to be interesting to see if the Fox line changes now.

The reason I think AI girlfriends/boyfriends aren't really going to catch on is that people want someone they can sacrifice for as well as someone who will sacrifice for them. Ultimately a relationship with an AI is just too easy.

Ten writers of whom I've read ten plus books: Anthony Trollope Charles Dickens PG Wodehouse Diana Wynne Jones Roger Zelazny Alexander Dumas Andre Norton Donald Westlake Alan Moore Garry Wills

Happy July 14 at a time when it seems more Bastilles are being built than are being torn down.

The Fall of the Pepsi Bastille.

Someone should do one of those nice, prestige comic strip collections of Bud Blake's Tiger.

Now the Liberty Fund is just giving away books. Doesn't seem very capitalist of them, but who am I to judge? about.libertyfund.org/collections/...

A happy fourth to the residents of France, Spain, the Netherlands and Mysore!

Today, on the way to work, I saw someone reading a printed newspaper on the Metro. It looked weird.

Blocked replies! Hilarious! When people write histories of America in the early twentieth century, Trump is going to be the central figure, not Obama. I don't like this fact, but that's the way it is.

Kind of sad reading Superman comics and realizing Smallville voted 80% Trump.

Just blocked a guy who addressed me as "my dude." Felt good!

People are missing what's genuinely weird about this, which is the fact that he's using the word "Democratic" rather than "Democrat." That's ordinarily forbidden among Republicans.

Has anyone suggested that Mamdani is the Twelfth Imam yet?

An unfortunate consequence of Mamdani's victory seems to be a revival of kitchen tablism.

Assuming Mamdani holds the lead tonight and goes on to be elected mayor, it marks the end of a period of several decades when Israel advocacy was considered part of the NYC mayor's job.