Going to go back to 1870 and tell Grant that West Virginia has become a den of traitors and Lost Cause aficionados, while Virginia has been taken over by northern carpetbaggers (laudatory)

I’ll give him some time to process that before telling him about the Sixth Party System

in anishinaabemowin, akiing, the word we use for earth or the land as a place, translates to “the land to which the people belong”

we aren’t meant to be disconnected from that relationship

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Slaw is just wild bc I think people just eat whatever their moms made, and it runs the absolute gamut. I'll always give it a shot (especially at a bbq place), and sometimes I finish it first, other times I wish I could spit it out. It's like there's no standard at all.

At this point it's a relatively safe bet that at least one "are you f-ing kidding me?" Senate seat goes blue this year. We just have no idea which one.

Dems will turn out like Obama's on the ballot while Rs will stay home more than they did for COVID.

Besides, if I don't smile & wave at all the cute babies, how will the parents of ugly babies know that I disapprove?

Example after example, red-handed.

Accountability includes a lot of things, including breaking up companies.

Maybe it doesn’t work, but for a long time I’ve felt that Dems should run on technocratic-but-ideological legislation (eg fund IRS enforcement) and ambitiously ideological amendments like this. Tell voters who you want to be at different scales.

I think liberal billionaires should start mining some fiction that they can use names from and profane the meaning of ideologically, like Thiele with Tolkien

I propose we start with Rearden Steel, a social democratic, state integrated railway-and-metal firm

This is obviously insane, but to give it more respect than it’s due: men can encounter nurture-triggering situations that aren’t “my partner birthed my biochild.”

Oh, possibly. There were in western Mass (and GF was from OH), but they were in Boston enough that a connection's pretty likely.

It was very confusing to 1992 me to learn that my sister's college GF listened to them. They graduated in 1989 (in Massachusetts no less).

Because the alternative isn't the weak writing rules that somehow bind the strong; it's the strong doing whatever they want whenever they want.

Everybody benefits from the rules-based order*, even if the most powerful benefit most.

*check🌍 life expectancy & poverty data before you shout at this

A friend who works there sent me this after I told him about it. It’s a photo by his coworker.

Oh wow. I saw Into the Woods with the original Broadway cast, so. All the boys were hanging by the stage door hoping Ms Peters would come out. She did not.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

I loved Urinetown, but I can’t pretend it hit the way Woods does.

Maybe if Bernadette Peters was in it.

Into The Woods

Friend of mine posted today abt a long-running battle he’s been having with assholes who ride motorbikes, and have their kids ride minibikes, on city park trails totally illegally. It’s explicitly political, with the asshole dad complaining abt “libtards” who call the cops on his illegal activity.

One of the decisive cultural definitions of being a Boomer was hating Frank Sinatra, the iconic singer of the 1940s, before 95% of Boomers were born.

Everybody who bought the 45 of “My Way” was born before WW2 started.

This morning I was awake around dawn, and I thought “oh shit I have a 9:30 meeting, I’d better set an alarm.” Then I realized it was Sunday, not Monday.

I’m praying this happens again tomorrow.

To say the least! What a life.

Also, James Rorimer can eat a dick.

The most egregious example of this remains the DC MSNBC guy who moved there to run a newspaper because he just loves local journalism THAT MUCH but could never be arsed to run a piece checking out what the synagogue HE HIMSELF GOES TO thinks about all of this, because it’d be bad for his candidate

Genuinely impressive use of the apparent panel break to actually be the end of the backstop.

That lead me to the headline IRIS LOVES NILE DIARY, which made no sense to me bc A I’ve never heard of Iris Love, and B I missed the apostrophe S

I just assumed that the wormhole that sends you updates from that dimension was unreliable.

My HS BFF went into the Navy in the early ‘90s, ended up a sonar tech. But he was deployed to the Gulf, where there are no submarines, so instead he was manning a .50 caliber gun in case of Iranian speedboats.

Which is basically this cartoon.

It’s incredible how “oh no I won’t get enough sleep” barely exists when you’re young, then becomes a central fixation in late middle age.

Should I get 6 hours of sleep tonight, or should I spend 3 hours worried I won’t get 6?

* begats, dammit.

Autocorrect doesn't know "begats." Autocorrect clearly never made it past Noah in its attempt to read through the whole Bible cover-to-cover.