That's Curtis Yarvin

So I'm going to be completely lost watching this rock em sock em picture without the critical insight about the identity and motives of the baddie, eh?

I'm wearing this to the next No Kings

Would I have this pocket square if I didn't respect the First Amendment?

Having a still-living parent and growing up near a grandparent who lived through a Nazi massacre in the old country has definitely contributed to my I Don't Like Nazis sentiment.

Jesus, this is grim even by 2026 standards.

More like Dud Bunny

The Blue Planet Helen Lundeberg Date 1965 Dimensions 60 1/8 x 60 inches Medium Acrylic on canvas

Maybe they just think of their God as some sort of eldritch horror that grants benisons but must be obeyed, no matter how capricious and repellent its commands are. Maybe they are in awe of a thing of immense and obscure power.

That look when you need to get your court card signed at an AA meeting before heading to the Applebee’s bar for lunchtime drink specials.

Folks not from around here wouldn't think it, but SoCal has an embarrassment of indie bookstore riches, from the elders like Vroman's in Pasadena to the long timers like Chaucer's in Santa Barbara, to newbies like Book Catapult in San Diego. Lots of specialist stores, too.

And some, like the HP Lovecraft corpus, or Sherlock Holmes, have spawned massive volumes of material good, bad, indifferent and transcendent.

I don't know about you, but I refuse to live in the dystopian world that Palantir is not only ideating, but implementing.

It's time for companies to divest, lawyers to go to court, voters to demand that their reps refuse and return their contributions.

We can't just stand by.

So, last year the company I worked for for sold and the new owners summarily shit canned almost everybody. I was out of work (doing a little consulting) for months. Finally got a state job in December. Anyway, the pay ain't even close, but I just left the optometrist, and the insurance is worth it.

If your big idea is that you'll somehow make more money by being hateful towards a historically marginalized (at best) group, your big idea is that you want Nazi customers.

I am so incredibly angry that I could have spent the last year living my fantasy of being a suave art thief with a stumblebum, Sterno drinking wino at the helm of the FBI but I had to waste my chance being depressed and angry all the time.

Remember all the celebrities who were so enthusiastic about NFTs?

I will absolutely call Trump voters stupid. They’re adults.

His name is Stephen Gammell. Put some respeck on the name.

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

My family got into a fight with the local priest years before I was born and that was basically that.

Ut!

Just repeat to yourself, "It's just a show, I should really just relax."

The fun thing is that when the worm turns, we can just shitcan everybody still working for the feds and rehire everybody who got fired and have a better government than we started with.

The finest foods are squeezed out of a tube

Ass, gas, or grass, no one rides for free

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates. The devil runs away with a bride in Princeton, NJ, and Woodrow Wilson was there.

It is so funny. I loved it.

Letterman voice: "Clavicular, Androgenic. Androgenic, Clavicular."