First-year writer: I like your class, it’s interesting. Me: Thanks! Glad to hear it. First-year: In my other classes I fall asleep, and in this one I don’t fall asleep. I’m a good teacher because the students’ standards are so exacting.

First-year writer: I like your class, it’s interesting. Me: Thanks! Glad to hear it. First-year: In my other classes I fall asleep, and in this one I don’t fall asleep. I’m a good teacher because the students’ standards are so exacting.

Tell me you haven't read outside your field for 30 years without telling me you haven't read outside your field for 30 years.

We were watching the Seahawks blowout because my kid has Kenneth Walker, Jr., and the sideline reporter said, of Kellen Moore’s homecoming to Washington State: “and he told us he went to the Matthew Hasselbeck passing academy and no doubt that had a big impact on his future NFL career” (Derogatory)

It’s been a week since Kirk was killed and the cycle of unacceptable reactions went from celebrating to saying you weren’t sad to slightly misquoting him to accurately quoting him to suggesting his death was being exploited

Jimmy Kimmel should recreate this iconic photo

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

I’m not super well-versed in the occult; Is this a good omen?

<clutches pearls, collapses onto fainting couch>

<clutches pearls, collapses onto fainting couch>

@jongrover.bsky.social ‘bout time

Baltimore bathroom graffiti. Good advice is where you find it.

Baltimore bathroom graffiti. Good advice is where you find it.

…and then doing whatever I want.

“Analysis”

<goes through TSA> *chuckling nervously* <checks bag at gate> *tugging at collar* <makes eye contact with seatmate> *sweat beading on upper lip* <Plane touches down at BWI> *running to the exit, screaming in relief: “You know who ELSE flew on 9/11?”*

<goes through TSA> *chuckling nervously* <checks bag at gate> *tugging at collar* <makes eye contact with seatmate> *sweat beading on upper lip* <Plane touches down at BWI> *running to the exit, screaming in relief: “You know who ELSE flew on 9/11?”*

Brazil gets it

Kirk actively encouraged political violence against those he disagreed with. He organized transportation for January 6 rioters. He is a victim of a problem he helped create. And if we’re going to write against political violence and in defense of free expression we must acknowledge that.

also on the subject of political violence

man i dunno i just feel slightly suspicious of people who apparently were not so shaken by stuff like the Pulse or Las Vegas or Uvalde shootings and what that says about the state of the US but now suddenly have this reaction of "we're on a dark path" now that someone prominent was targeted

Gun control measures with bipartisan support have been defeated by the Senate filibuster. Name the issue, and it will be the case that our inability to move forward on policy is largely attributable to our anti-democratic insititutions, which are destabilizing the country.

Anyway, 72 percent of Americans support universal background checks and 76 percent support extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs). Maybe Congress should take those things up

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

gun control

Gun control

I hope Charlie Kirk recovers quickly then, like James Brady, uses his megaphone to help advocate for common sense limits on firearms.

Gun control

Beer is the Mind-Killer (complimentary)

"The Fly Who Flew to Space," huh? Cool.

The Semisonic guys have hit some hard times

Nobody won

My favorite part of THE INNOCENTS ABROAD is Twain and co. doing bits

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

This is all really messing up the birthday card I was planning on giving my brother for his 50th

It's simple: we monetize crying

I’ve begun using my first train ride of the morning to close my eyes for some mindful breathing/meditation, and it’s a great start to the day. Just this beautiful calm and sense of moral superiority over all the schmucks looking at their phones.

A very good price (objective) for a very good website (biased). People that subscribe tend to stay subscribed, at a much higher rate than industry norms. I think it's because the writing is so good, but again I am biased, there.

I’ve begun using my first train ride of the morning to close my eyes for some mindful breathing/meditation, and it’s a great start to the day. Just this beautiful calm and sense of moral superiority over all the schmucks looking at their phones.

My favorite part of THE INNOCENTS ABROAD is Twain and co. doing bits

Ayn Rand: I spent years writing Atlas Shrugged and they just… put up a sign

Zohran tickled and genuinely touched, Bernie waiting for the noise to die down

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

Cool mental health innovation I just found in a box of sidewalk books.

Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend at Bernie’s

just something to have on hand in these times

Ayn Rand: I spent years writing Atlas Shrugged and they just… put up a sign

I don’t think that halftime show had enough Catwoman