This this THIS! The point of the previous impeachments wasn't to remove Trump. That was never going to happen. It was to signal that this is not OK. We need to be on the record that THIS IS NOT FUCKING OK.

How many good guys have referred to themselves as "predators?" I've been thinking hard and have so far come up with precisely none.

Gotta throw in Watchmen, even though it was only a limited series. I was SO SURE they wouldn't stick the landing, but they landed it so well.

Babylon 5, "Sleeping in Light." We were told from the very start that it was the story of the last of the Babylon stations. Still hit hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=znNc...

Added a little touch of whimsy to the home office today.

It's almost as enduring as "American beer is bad." I'm not sure which is more wrong.

You love to see it. Go get 'em, Tim!

This is what they call a target-rich environment.

On the other hand, insurgents may have the chance to do the funniest thing...

Legit use for #DarkAges finally dropped. Math definitely checks out.

I'm listening to Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew" while I work and in "Spanish Key" there is a brief passage (is that the right word...my music vocabulary is kind of lacking), really about one measure, that I think Keith Emerson stole, I think in Karn Evil 9, Second Impression. It's elusive.

This.

Anybody else over 2026?

Twenty twenty-five You were a festering sore Fuck off now. Get lost. #haiku

Can we organize a bunch of us to go up there with boxes? I can't imagine what's about to be lost.

Screw Poseidon. Call in the orcas.

All too often, it seems, the only difference between cops and criminals is the badge.

Anybody else ready to see this fucking year out?

2025 in sum...

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

It "went viral" the same way measles has...through the deliberate weakening of our defenses against it.

I got through Christmas without being #whammed. Do I without something?

Fuck yes!

Billionaires like Mark want credit for whatever form of largesse they think things like this are. Billionaires like Mark are also the main reason acts like this are needed. We ultimately cannot coexist.

I'm not sure why they changed it back or why it makes me so happy they did. Could be the 30% more caffeine.

Your sarcophagus is glowing, But your esophagus is showing. Who cares how rich you are, love, When you look like Boris Karloff?

If it was good for us, the billionaires wouldn't be working so hard to foist it on us.

I remember watching JJ and the quintet play this years ago in a church in Greensboro and the joy they radiated playing it. Never fails to bring a smile for both the music and that night. What songs make you just pause and smile whenever you hear them? www.youtube.com/watch?v=q49t...

You ever stop and think about, no matter how good your intentions may be, no matter that you want the best for your fellow humans, illustrator how fucking dirty your hands are, how mired in exploitation you are, how washed in blood?

The Renaissance was a totally real thing.

Christopher Columbus discovered America.

NASA asked Stanley Kubrick to fake the Moon landing. He accepted on the condition that they shoot on location.

This is a really good talk. It cannot be repeated enough that "criminality" is not an inherent status. It is conferred. And it can be conferred on any of us.

It was fun going to movies there. If we got bored, we'd just exit the projector room and climb on the roof.

Watching "Empire Strikes Back" in its theatrical run at the HUGE theater on Fort Eustis. A friend's father was the manager and we mostly watched from the projection room. He gave us the lobby posters when the run ended.

Being one of four people in the theater at the beginning of a mid-afternoon showing of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and being one of two left at the end.

The pin-drop silence in a packed house opening weekend at the end of "Glory."

Going with my mom, a major Batman fan, to the midnight Thursday showing of the first Michael Keaton Batman movie (I had just graduated high school) at a theater that no longer exists. We were Keaton skeptics going in...less so coming out. And the audience was totally into ti.

You should definitely read Whitman's "Hitler's American Model". If only to be shamed (if you're an American) by learning that Nazi legal theorists found the "One-Drop rule" TOO EXTREME.

Everyone thinks Continental breakfasts have something to do with Europe. Not exactly. It's named after the breakfast served to delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775. Same with the Continental grip in tennis; Sam Adams used it to wipe the court with William Livingston.

No. Not least because the idea that technology can enable me to is disgusting.

Have y'all had a rash of "Elon Musk" parody accounts follow recently?

Repeat after me: Students are not the customers; students are the product.

This may not be my favorite record, but I sure do listen to it a lot. "Red" is BOTH the proggiest of rock and the rockiest of prog. It's like Fripp knew it, too, and retired King Crimson until the New Wave summoned it from the dead.

I have a joke about Martin Luther, but you have to tell it in 95 parts.

I had a joke about Anselm so great that it must exist.

Oh thank goodness.

Scholar of heterodoxy here. No heretic ever thought they were a heretic, so be wary of any self-described "heterodox thinker."

I had a joke about Democritus, but it takes a bit of a swerve.

Mood.