When the discovery starts

There are exceptions, but many of the "conservatives" who a decade or two ago wanted universities to teach more Western Civ both (a) had no idea what universities are actually teaching, and (b) had no idea about the content they purportedly wanted to be taught more.

Capitalism is king in the US until it hurts big business

Well this sucks. It is right by my house. Can't wait for the power and water bills to go through the roof. Plus the noise

It's like approaching a chef who really loves making new dishes, watching other people enjoy them, enjoying the taste himself and saying, look, this cooking thing takes a lot of time and energy, wouldn't you rather just get your nutritional needs from this brand new Gruel Bar we're selling?

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors

may this define her for the rest of her life.

she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired.

girl, bye.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

It’s genuinely a challenge for legal journalists to cover the birthright citizenship case, because one side’s argument is “the Fourteenth’s Amendment intent and text and a century of uninterrupted Supreme Court precedent all support birthright citizenship,” and the other side’s argument is “nuh-UH”

At least Nero provided some music when Rome burned.

(Yes I know)

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

I keeping thinking about parallels between the massive shift of scientific talent from Europe to the U.S. in the 1930s and 40s to what we are seeing today. Talent that was incredibly important for the U.S. in WWII and beyond.
Just look up Manhattan project and how many of the scientists fled Europe

Liking this just feels wrong. Fuck what a piece of shit

Saws has been hit or miss to me for a couple of years now.

But I’ve been going to Saws Southside for lunch occasionally lately and the bbq has been as consistently really good. Maybe not quite what it was, but close enough that I don’t care.

Can't forget the Roy Moore endorsement

Agreed and I've read a decent amount of history

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

Same

My glasses are supposed to be positioned just right on my face to get the right focal point. Great, my glasses are so heavy from the thick lenses that they never stay in the right place

In retrospect it totally tracks why a guy who has no friends wouldn’t get why you need allies

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

U.S. service members killed: Another U.S. service member died Monday from injuries sustained in the initial Iranian attacks, U.S. Central Command said, bringing to four the total number of American forces killed. Two U.S. officials had told The Washington Post that the three previous fatalities were members of a sustainment unit in Kuwait. Trump warned more U.S. casualties were likely.

Four Americans were killed in the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi and it became a Republican mega-scandal for many years

/7 What I mean by that is: do you see ANY moral component in making arguments to limit or reduce other people’s rights? Do you acknowledge ANY moral responsibility in pressing an extremely implausible argument in an effort to strip citizenship or rights from people?

Am I conversant in Bad Bunny’s music? No.

Do I speak Spanish? No.

Was I blown away by the music? No.

But even being ambivalent about the actual music, the halftime show looked like one hell of a party.

Me after my 50th Claude ad

Have most Super Bowl commercials always been this bad or have they just gotten so consistently bad the last few years that it seems like they have always been bad.

AI and Crypto commercials just make me think Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad sounds great.

as you watch all of the rah-rah pageantry of the Super Bowl it’s astounding to remember that MAGA is so weird and offputting that they’ve apparently given football to the libs in the national divorce

I guarantee he is going to talk about winning this fight, but those kids kicked his ass