@kdonhoops.com Why do I have a clear memory of the loop Bennigans, I ask myself. I met a friend there before we went to see Ravi Shankar at orchestra hall! That was it.

He quotes a conservative activist: "What really motivated the Tea Party was a deep, philosophical disagreement with Obama about what government should be." Yeah, if there's anything I remember about the Tea Party, it's all the deep philosophers. Were they the ones holding "Go Back to Africa" signs?

i can't find a principled way to articulate this but there are some things that should only exist in the grey market. you should have to take some risk to participate and the risk functions as regulation. for gambling, it should be travel or physical violence. i don't make the rules.

Really enjoying this so far! Basically, what if you went back 20 years later and re-investigated "the incident" from your high school. www.kuow.org/podcasts/focus

Let him use the toilet, maybe it's still got the magic.

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

the reason we dont have high speed rail or healthcare is so we can stuff money in the pockets of a few guys who were in the right place at the right time a few decades ago so they can do shit like this, this is the innovation we’re getting for funneling money to these people

I can only get information in the absolute fastest possible way not a second can be wasted, this is what civilization depends on *turns on Joe Rogan talking for 3 hours to Carrot Top about how AI can make a song that sounds like 50 Cent is singing the Beatles*

Answer a fundamental question of existence or admit the help page on my website is alive

Tom Waits recording Bone Machine (1992)

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Every time I hear Pete Hegseth is squabbling with Anthropic, I think they’re talk about Anthropologie, and I wonder if that wispy peasant dress he bought to go see Sara McLachlan didn’t hold up after three washings and they keep telling him the label clearly says “ dry clean only”

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Go, already. Just... go.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

I’ve said something like this here before, but it bears repeating today: Pam Bondi is a contemporary from my region, same college, etc., so I’ve watched her rise for decades. I assure you a more contemptible, grasping, power-mad wretch never emerged from these sunny shores.

Regardless of what you think of Trump's policies, "Panican" is absolutely elite political communication on the merits. Of course everyone instantly grasps what it means and it just looks so good on the page, but furthermore it's also very easy to imagine how someone would say it aloud.

'Who's going to win," she says after explaining that she can't even mention the pen names producing books because it will tank what pitiful sales she gets if people know she's using AI to produce them. LOL. Hear yourself.

Despite? Or because there is no surer indicator that something is a scam?

How many people do you encounter irl who have an impression of politics so widely at variance with reality that it would have be revised drastically to even count as wrong? I meet a lot!

If you adopted, as your guiding heuristic, "not a single voter knows a single thing about policy or politics," you wouldn't be entirely accurate, but you would be closer to the truth than the impression most people who follow politics have.

You don’t understand. Cryptocurrency is the future. All it will take is everyone agreeing to this and if that doesn’t happen? Okay hold on

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.

The GOP is in fact the party of divorced middle aged men whose blue haired daughters hate them

“We’ll make sure that for the rest of their lives they’ll never have to buy their own drink!”

I want to emphasize that at this time the unconfirmed reports that President Trump has both arms stuck "elbow deep" in the airplane toilet are just that. We will be monitoring this story. Please be responsible about spreading news that both his arms are "as far as they can go" into the toilet hole.

10 years of this shit

Analysis | Joe Biden would not have invaded NATO allies, cut off child welfare, or sent armed forces to kill Americans. But he would have given very few press conferences and spoken in a halting voice. The voters got it right.

i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop

If Joe Biden, Barack Obama, or Bill Clinton had openly threatened to seize the territory of our NATO allies, Jake Tapper & every other CNN anchor would do nothing but point out how wildly illegal this is, how massively it endangers US national security, & how it is grounds for immediate impeachment.

Counterpoint: no, it’s not. Nobody is saying there should be a counter narrative on Stormfront; we just avoid it. Twitter isn’t a public utility, it’s a private website owned by a white supremacist. We don’t owe it anything.

Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels, that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days

Translation from CEO Speak: "People using a pithy and accurate term makes our very expensive product difficult to sell and we want them to stop. We also don't actually know what this product is supposed to do for people."

2026: the year it happens

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

You FUCKED UP, your LEFTY politics have ALIENATED the BILLIONAIRES who run the CHILD BONE EXTRACTION FACTORIES and now they will do a MASS EXODUS from your STATE or CITY. Don’t CRY to ME when you no longer see their CHILD CATCHING VANS in your STATE or CITY, YOU IDIOT

We Need to Resist the Sanewashing of J.D. Vance (new post) nomoremister.blogspot.com/2025/12/we-n...

(5/X) put her in charge of CBS News and she began censoring stories that were critical of Trump. The guy at the free speech organization said nothing, the guy who organized the Harper's letter said nothing, and her supporters at the Atlantic rallied around her.

Returning to twitter to minister to the hogs and do my part to improve the conversation. Fixing Andrew Tate's heart by talking about the NBA with him. Replying "Are you watching Plurbus" to a Rod Dreher post about demonic possession and kicking off a healing round of good-natured discourse.

Yep. I have a term for it. Used in this way, "some say" and "critics say" are signals warning us that what comes next is not truth-seeking but refuge-seeking behavior. "Depends on you ask" operates in similar fashion.

(1/2) This court is a problem that won't go away. They'll block everything the next Dem president does. Got to start talking about "court reform" now. "Republicans in robes", "corruption". Not "packing" or "expanding". Start framing the discussion now. We know that...

I feel like this is healthy. I really love these Midwest soul-rock boys, but I’m not a maniac about it.

@erikloomis.bsky.social I could tell you this is a great line, but better still my wife could tell you it’s a bullseye.

It’s cold comfort, but this is something I’ve thought often during this horrible period.

It's like America is waiting for the test results call from our oncologist.

He was married to Marla Maples when he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll. Wonder if he told his wife about that when he got home.

@seanthomason.bsky.social Maybe you’re too proud to rerun your old hits from the other site. But this is one that cannot be allowed to diminish and go into the West.

Thomas Huxley (Darwin's Bulldog) on vax denialists: 140 yrs ago: Those trying to prevent the use of Pasteur's newly invented rabies vaccine, “hate everything which contributes to prove the value of strictly scientific methods of inquiry in all those questions which affect the welfare of society."