Something beautiful about the final words you say being "Thank you and sorry for the trouble."

The longer I thought about this the harder I physically laughed out loud.

The concept of nuclear fission was discovered in December, 1938. The first nuclear weapon was denoted in July, 1945. The time from the discovery of the existence of nuclear fission to the first fission bomb exploding was almost exactly the same as the time from the first case of COVID-19 to today.

In the immediate postwar environment in the late 40's and early 50's, there was a rush to force through a variety of new technologies out of fear that the Russians might get there first and somehow win the war of "who does civilization better." Hence the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System.

Aw, this made me sad to think about: in the 1950's, essentially ALL of my mom's family, both her father's side and mother's side, lived in one building in Flushing. Two full floors of just them, maybe twenty different units. Only one of those units is still occupied by my family; soon that will be 0

Trump almost certainly believes that the U.S. bombed a uranium enrichment facility and that spread uranium particles all over Iran and we're going to have to send in people in hazmat suits with tiny shovels to collect it.

There is only one remaining living member of my grandparents' generation left. My maternal grandfather's younger brother (my uncle Eddy)'s widow, my aunt Cathy. Uncle Eddy was born in 1918; aunt Cathy was born in 1933. Never really thought about how problematic that age gap was until right now.

I have it tattooed right here:

I mean, you can set any growth target you want if you plan on calculating GDP in nominal terms and then inducing hyper-inflation. "We're setting minimum wage at one million dollars per hour. One banana will now cost one billion dollars."

remember when celebrities seemingly randomly started coming out talking about how much they loved NFTs and thought it was super valuable and the future?

The US' first 5- star military officer in WWII was George Marshall, who never led troops in battle but was in charge of the military's entire logistics operations, because that was seen as the most important part of the war effort.

Reasonably certain that this is neither how diplomacy nor mediation works.

It is super-awesome that the pied-a-terre law was crafted in such a way that you cannot claim to be a New Yorker who's affected by it, because that will also be an admission that you're committing tax fraud. It's the perfect tax! No constituency can be opposed to it!

Big "Matt Damon endorsing NFTs for Crypto. com" energy:

Fun fact: this actually makes you a Protestant. Weird how heirarchical religions work, right?

Underrated top 10 worst SCOTUS decision of all time.

I have yet to see an argument against the pied-a-terre tax which doesn't make the arguer sound ridiculous, which I guess is a great argument in favor of the tax in itself.

"Vicious" really understates the effect of a collapse in demand for Treasuries. Among other things, it would lead to rampant inflation, which I'm told by the 2024 election is the single most important issue for every voter in the country.

Asking the forbidden question

I read about this before and assumed it was a joke. Like, even this stupid timeline couldn't possibly be this stupid, could it?

Is there a term for when you contradict one part of a sentence in a different part of the same sentence? Like, "I am deeply committed to healthy eating habits as part of my current weight loss regimen, so I have been eating 12 piece KFC buckets dipped in mayonnaise for every meal."

With their kids in the house. Fucking evil.

Increases in sales of nail polish and home hair dye. It indicates that people are starting to do personal grooming work themselves that they'd previously gone to professionals to have done for them.

Part of the problem with class discussion in the US is that wage earners compare themselves to other wage earners and end up defining themselves as distinct in class from people whose economic interests have 95% overlap with their own. So they end up fighting the wrong battle and never see the war.

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865): DeLorean Motor Company (1975-1982).

You remember how the entire GOP disavowed Mark Robinson and basically told people not to vote for him two months before the election? Just completely threw a winnable election because their candidate was indefensible? Democrats are going to end up there with Platner.

The physical experience of writing by hand with a pen on a piece of paper is preferable to typing into a computer. When I'm taking notes on something - client intake; oral argument; depositon; whatever - I write it out on a legal pad because the physical act of writing locks it into my brain.

Gallego's wife was unavailable for comment.

Personal complaint: I rarely have to justify my fees with particular specificity since most of my practice is class actions and we just get a percentage of the recovery. But I just got a decision in a single-plaintiff case where the judge cut my hourly rate to $300. Which is fucking insulting.

Johnson may be too Protestant to know this, but the Just War Doctrine in Catholicism is codified in Canon Law. Trump's assault on Iran satisfies literally none of the conditions of it.

It is currently April 15. Less than a third of the way through the year. To date, the gain in my retirement accounts is more than my mother - a 1975 college graduate who is still employed full time - has ever earned in any calendar year in her life. Something is deeply broken in the markets.

Reminds of this old banger of a commercial:

For gearheads like myself, Seb Gorka posing for a photo series at the White House with his ***4- cylinder*** Mustang was one of the funniest moments of Trump I.

The national debt is "real" in the sense that it's a thing that exists, but so long as (over the medium and long terms) the economy grows faster than interest rates on T-Bills, it never has to be paid back. This was basically guaranteed before COVID; since then it hasn't been, with like a 1% spread

I've seen people unfamiliar with the Catholic Church get confused when people make distinctions between adult Catholic converts and lifelong Catholics. Here's a perfect object lesson: A lifelong Catholic would NEVER say this. Never ever never never ever ever never.

Re-upping my thread about how deflation is absolutely disastrous - probably the worst thing that could possibly happen to the economy short of nuclear war or the US defaulting on its debt - because people seem to be saying prices should go down as if that would be a good thing.

Fun climate change thing: today is my 9th wedding anniversary. The actual day I got married, we had the ceremony outside, and everyone had to wear winter coats because it was really too cold to have had an outdoor ceremony. It is currently 84° in Manhattan.

A true thing that I do not understand: conservative Catholics like Leo a whole lot more than they liked Francis, despite Leo not being any more conservative than Francis.

This is reminding me that when Scalia died, Erick Erickson floated Mike Lee as a "compromise" nominee Obama should appoint.

So, real-talk: has there ever been a non-dictatorship and non-monarchy where the nation's leader was as nakedly corrupt as Trump? I cannot think of anybody short of, like, Putin and Gaddafi who used office to enrich themselves as much as Trump has.

Synthesizing two discourses: how much of the vibecession is driven by young men losing their shirts to FanDuel parlays?

Television shows.

Here's the problem with people saying the economy is terrible when it's objectively improving: it removes all incentives for politicians to do things that are good for the economy. Biden signed the two best economic bills of the last half- century and got ZERO credit for it. This is bad.

Obviously leaded gasoline rotted everyone's brains. But I'm not sure the alternative would have been better: if leaded gasoline hadn't been developed, diesel almost certainly would have dominated gasoline for internal combustion engines from the 1930's on, and diesel emissions are super-duper bad.

Since Maris never won a third MVP, today was only the second game in MLB history where two 3-time MVPs hit multiple home runs. Musial won the MVP in 1943, 1946, and 1948; Campanella won in 1951, 1953, and 1955. Trout won in 2014, 2017, and 2019; Judge won in 2022, 2024, and 2025. They're both 34.

This is a result of 2 very simple things: A) Housing prices have VASTLY outstripped inflation and home ownership is legitimately further out of reach for people today than it was decades ago. B) In other respects people legitimately do not realize how much higher standards of living are today.

In honor of this, please post the most obviously bullshit excuse you've ever given in your adult life. A girl once asked me to go back to her apartment on the Upper West Side after a night out in the Meat Packing District, and I told her I couldn't because my car was parked in alternate-side spot.

This antisemitism from the "left" is getting out of hand and people need to just fucking stop. This is pure gutter bigotry and you should be ashamed to show your face in public.

Can someone please explain to me what the fuck that thing in the sky at the top center of this blasphemous image is supposed to be? I can't be the only one seeing Baphomet, can I?

When Trump says Leo only became Pope because the Church "thought that would be the best way to deal with Donald J. Trump," that's not entirely wrong. But that's kind of like Hitler taking credit for the Manhattan Project. Without him, it wouldn't have happened, true. Not something to brag about.