Habeas corpus is the friends we deported along the way

Guess I need to log off for a few days while the worst humans sound off about the suspicious timing of an aggressive cancer diagnosis.

On a Mad Men re-watch and my dumb brain did me a disservice over the years: Though I loved it the first time, I remembered it as being a bit slow-moving. NOPE. Totally wrong! We get Dick Whitman clues in Episode 1 -- and these episodes are packed with plot.

it's not going well for Bears ownership. I swear the Titans' new stadium is going to be one of the last of the "allow billionaires to use public money" model. Our city had leverage but refused to even let things get slightly uncomfortable for ownership.

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

oof. The era of my first iPod (2nd gen), which may have contained the Blink song, the AFI song, and Reptilia (best song on this list besides Maps). But a pretty putrid time for popular music -- we all scrambled to the indie scene and (in my case) relied on cooler friends for better music

often carried a roll of Assorted Fruit Certs in my pocket in 8th and 9th grade. Sue me, I was still looking for an identity while trying not to smell like a teen.

so tired of hearing from guys who think there is some kind of virtue to being in the middle (as they reason, they're not susceptible to the excesses of either side). They're empty vessels.

don't accept a glass of red wine in a place where spilling red wine would spell disaster (but I'm not clumsy or anything)

real Chicagoans strongly prefer the less-talked-about tavern-style Pope.

when's gonna be his time??

since I get a lot of zoning/housing discourse in my feed (not complaining!). Bloody amazing.

came across the most Bluesky post that's Bluesky'd: a leftist posting that they'd discovered Andor, and that the politics of it were indeed good. However, they were preemptively worried that posting about it would attract resist libs and other unwanted types ("I am not like you," etc. )

I already use it for mixed purposes: 1. getting photos of the baby at the ghost town JC Penney; 2. Celebrating item 1 with gyros and a mountain of fries from Pyramids Cafe

AI evangelists always say their tools will spark creativity and innovation but time and time again it only gets used to manipulate stuff that already exists. Make a dead person say new words, generate images of a famous person naked, etc

"something called molly" as the Attorney General turns into a Tim Robinson character

seen a few think pieces (from respected culture websites) on Revenge of the Sith. And let me state for the record, after many years to consider and reconsider: No. It was not underappreciated. It is dogshit. The lightsaber fight where Anakin gets his shit wrecked is like the only 5 watchable minutes

not the worst (I liked it and wore it out), but my most "buyer beware" CD was a used copy of Reel Big Fish's Why Do They Rock So Hard. Only it was the CLEAN version and not labeled as such. So many awkwardly spliced blips.

Good sign for Journalism that owners of a horse named Private Equity were disallowed from buying their way into the race last minute

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Peed. (And Peed 2: Cruise Control)

Zuckerberg's McMansion out here lookin' like the Ensworth high school

Anyway logged on to see if we can solve a slightly smaller emergency, anybody up for being a hero tomorrow?

trying to schedule two sets of bloodwork for myself and one for my cat with IBS. Good times all around!

an absolute must-read for those (like me) who consume a lot of college sports

So Jimmy Butler got hurt for a game and it made Steve Kerr forget Moses Moody existed?

The Jaxes of the world are of age and accessing data on their parents’ unsecured devices

the Alleycat fried avocado. (no way in hell I'd try that at home). I mourn Five Points circa 2019, but 2009 Five Points was its own animal.

When batshit is your brand, you don’t get benefit of the doubt when you say the most recent batshit antics weren’t actually intended by you. You’ve stood up to the bully, now call him a liar.

damn these were good. Probably qualified as sugar-cereal junk in my household (and therefore, never purchased), but I got to indulge when staying at my childhood best friend's house.

Absolute perfect meme for the moment.

Duke's is a gem. We frequented it after the worst of the pandemic and before we moved to Madison. After 3 Crow's heel turn and the closure of a couple other places, it was one of the only places left that felt like a 5 Points bar should.

There's still time to donate to the EDSBS Charity Bowl! Support a good cause while also hating on your rival @minakimes.bsky.social is supporting her Washington Huskies EDSBSCharityBowl.com

they’re doing that thing where a new coach discovers his NFL team has a ping-pong table in the locker room and orders it removed to build a winning culture focused on football and all the players resent it and he gets fired after 3 sub-.500 seasons, but for The Army

My guy Moses Moody with the defense. Good to see him not stuck on the bench inexplicably

I understand why the left was absent from this pronatalism conference, even if Liz Bruenig doesn't.

Budos Band and The Aquabats just announced Nashville shows. I require HORNS! In these dumb times, please blast my ears with brass.

Thought my nerves were shot. But a couple of cruel and irritating folks exhumed my nerves' corpse so they could stomp on it just a bit more.

I can't fully prove causality yet, but anyone else have appliances go haywire after storms (losing power a few times)? Fridge/freezer is jacked up at the moment and had to replace the disposal yesterday (kitchen sink). Not having a very good or functional time over here.

Hi, this guy: fucking idiot. Matty Y: fucking idiot. David French: Fucking idiot. Ezra Klein: Fucking idiot. Every equivocating rhetorical gymnast undergrad-proud of their only right man in the world substack or podcast: Fucking idiots. None of this was hard. Fucking. Idiots.

maybe I watch sports too much, or read too much @defector.bsky.social; But I'm starting to think a lot of people (whose interests don't intersect as much) don't have a clue about how creepy Portnoy is and poisonous Barstool is in general.

Not fantastic to see local pizza joints posting Portnoy review bullshit on socials. Disappointing. 🤮

right now I wish America was as boring as all the Galactic Senate content from the Phantom Menace.

Have fully transitioned from March 2020 ptsd to April 2020 ptsd. But reserving the right to oscillate between the two

Just because the Batman movie with Val Kilmer was bad does not mean he was a bad Batman. (A belief I’ve held for decades now). RIP.

reason #9,027 AI sucks. I keep getting AI-automated emails on my work account from some spammy collection of businesses that always address me as Christopher.

guess I do live in a echo chamber -- college acquaintance of mine posted on FB a/b how alarming it is that students are being disappeared/detained by ICE. In the comments there was not 1 but 2 people writing angry screeds with right wing/Zionist talking points and calling her post anti-Semitic

still recovering from that brutal Razorback collapse. I'd rather lose on a buzzer beater than a 4-minute stretch where if one single thing goes differently (1 free throw, 1 rebound, 1 better decision), then you win. But it was a hell of a ride with these guys. Will find perspective in a couple days

Woo pig! Love the intensity so far. And that no one’s in foul trouble. Tech will make a run (the current one notwithstanding). WPS!

saddens me that NPR keeps failing to meet the moment lately. There is no amount of capitulation, and no amount of "both sides" programming you add can which will appease them. STOP ACCEPTING THEIR FRAMING

No lies told.