Surprised it’s only 79% responding “no opinion”/“who?”

I’m a too-online sicko, and I just catch bits and pieces of the discourse around the guy. Maybe he was standing next to me at Starbucks this morning, I’d have no idea.

I live one city over, and the speed at which people went from having no idea this was happening to putting up “no data centers” yard signs on every block was pretty remarkable.

My last name is an extremely appropriate one for a dog to have, so I guess I never questioned it.

Some of the quotes from his letters in “The Guns of August” feel like they were cherry-picked to invite the comparison. Then you remember that book was written in 1962.

I will never stop being impressed by it. Man is the living embodiment of at least 5 of the 7 deadly sins. A walking checklist of “shit that Jesus would really hate.” Sunday School cartoons have more subtlety.

My old roommate and I used to communicate via Simpsons quotes roughly 60% of the time, and we both bailed on a Simpsons trivia game after 10 minutes. There are rabbinical scholars who spend less time thinking about the Talmud than Simpsons trivia guys spend thinking about the Simpsons.

Not one single time.

Suicidal shows in LA are so much fun these days. Just an incredible collection of guys you would have crossed the street to avoid if you saw them in Venice in the ‘90s, who now take a lot of pride in being the “fun uncle” of the family.

Be sure to read the whole thing.

During my years as a film critic, I can’t remember getting hate mail quite like the hate mail I got when I reviewed a Kurzweil documentary and expressed some moderate skepticism about a few of his theories. And I used to review comic book movies.

We’ve got some VERY deep-cut graffiti here in Alhambra California.

“Rain on your college-ass disco dorm” is one of the greatest lyrics ever written. I don’t know what it means, and I don’t care.

This was kind of what it was like watching Starbucks and Bella Hadid launch NFTs, except the US economy wasn't propped up by it

The average voter is always 1000x weirder than polling reports would indicate.

Was just approached at random by an elderly gentleman who wanted to talk politics at the fish taco stand. In short: he hates the Iran war, tariffs, ICE raids; he thinks Obama was our best president; he voted for Trump 3x and still supports him because “he closed the borders after Biden opened them.”

As a lifelong Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hater, it pains me to say that this year’s class is pretty much perfect.

Will never forget how blindingly obvious this dynamic became to me at my first internship.

Me: “One of the senior guys seems to like me and invited me to happy hour. I’m so in!”

Female fellow intern: “One of the senior guys seems to like me and invited me to happy hour. Gotta play this carefully…”

Sabrina Carpenter should host the Oscars.

Yeah, that was great.

Dude needs to drop out of the race, like, tomorrow. If he wants to wage a PR battle and try to clear his name, he can try to do that on his own time. We literally don’t have time for this kind of shit right now.

CBS never addresses how much money any other department of the federal government lost last year. So I'll help!

The United States, which lost $980 billion in 2025 due to interest payments on the national debt,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which lost $213.3 billion in 2025,

and so on

I like to think I have much higher-than -average tolerance for bad band/artist names, but this was a tough one to get past.

Man, what happened to Warren, anyway?

Feels very much like Phil Spector passing. A figure of titanic importance to music; also an absolutely loathsome piece of shit.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Her delivery of “you’re just yellow trash” — devastating.

Took literally 24 hours to go from “by sundown we will wipe this evil empire off the face of the earth” to “thinking about pitching the evil empire on a joint piracy venture that will make oil more expensive forever.”

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

I think it was @brianphillips.lol who years ago noted that World Cup host countries were steadily trending further and further down on the human rights index, from Brazil to Russia to Qatar. Anyway, the US hosts its first World Cup match on June 12.