They publish lots of good writers, too. It’s the masthead that’s the problem.

it is easy to conclude that the Atlantic has many bad writers and so it is a bad magazine, but the truth of the situation is that it has many very bad editors and so it is a bad magazine.

One reason I’m skeptical of fast free busses absent more serious structure changes is stuff like this morning where there are currently no Downtown bound B65s running. (headway right now is 30+ minutes). For no other reason than the @mta.info cannot run the busses it has available in a timely way.

If we hit 30% unemployment buddy there wont be an intact data center in the whole country.

The 2026 Colorado Rockies have taken 2 of 3 against each of the 2025 World Series combatants Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays.

Inventing behavior to their left that doesn’t exist as a justification for preemptively declaring that lefties didn’t help with any of the predicted 2026 landslide victories and in fact were an obstacle, like Trump, that needed to be overcome. It pays the rent and then some.

I just substantively prefer that the sea lions colonize the river and drive the fisherman out of business, devastating the local economy. Because I think that would be funny.

Disney has, in continuing to make Toy Story movies, completely missed the message of the Toy Story movie they should have stopped on.

Matt Christman once said the reason the conservative movement in America - an essentially Protestant movement in every way - tolerates Catholic reactionaries is because the Catholics are the only ones who can do the reading.

Star Trek shows with long, dialogue-heavy scenes in a barroom of some kind are better futuristic action science fiction than the ones with lots of laser battles in outer space.

Literally nobody will miss them. In 2034 half of the kids who sit for LSATs wont know who Clarence Thomas is.

“I pledge myself to a sectarian interest,” as Thomas says here essentially, is of course something the Founders indisputably regarded as impeachment-worthy.

Being a Millennial left-lib is the default pop culture now, for good or for ill. Same as how everyone was meant to like The Doors in the ‘90s.

Planter is an obviously bad situation, complete failure by the state party, but this is silly. Susan Collins is a vote for Trump. Get a grip.

Although what she’s actually doing is auditioning for a lobbying job.

I don’t pretend to understand the actual fisheries management problem here, but just as a bit of common sense it probably doesn’t give your doomed centrist political career a good public image if your righteous crusade is against charismatic megafauna in the Pacific Northwest.

What do people actually think Nelson Mandela and Gandhi were demanding, vis-a-vis the South African and British governments, respectively?

Because it wasn't demilitarized quasi-autonomous economic enterprise zones under foreign security supervision.

The political history of the U.S. since the 1970s is basically that thing where a species' predator disappears and the species overpopulates and destroys the whole habitat. If centrists really wanted a "Normal" right, their top priority would be to bring back the left

The local bar association would be up in arms if a member was using their services to find other local attorneys for professional reasons!

You should not go to the regime-sponsored event for the tame press.

I think it’s really stupid to veto a popular state bill in order to avoid messing up one small town’s plans. I think you have to screw that town over and sign the good and popular bill.

Pig Beach was good-enough-to-stay-in-business food with an amazing space.

I’m already imagining watching this footage on a tablet that a no-nonsense detective (who might need to let her hair down?) is showing me right before she learns that the powers that be are now after both us and only a daring adventure pilot with a little bit of romance can resolve this conflict.

The architecture here was designed by libertarians. Can you believe it? I know I can.

Look. It’s a bad website for idiots, built by assholes. None of us are better than this though.

I like that they got the Challenger explosion in there. Got to play the hits.

The language of heritability gives him the reasonable tools, one that seems to be about bloodless science and statistics, to build a bigoted revanchism he wants for his politics, although his project doesn’t demand this intellectually.

he is trying to add heritability to a body of thought that doesn’t reject it but simply has no use for it. Nobody thinks that heritability isn’t a factor in people’s lives. It’s just not important for most policy. Disadvantaged kids deserve to eat too. But he *wants* a reason for them to starve.

I approach the computer with respect. At a time and a place that is appropriate for our encounter. Mindfully.