Honestly, the kids are as good at journalism as I am, because they've kind of stumped me there

That said, who knows what fates will befall under the Ellisons

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Concerned that there’s no official denial reported yet

The percentage of modern authoritarian regimes ousted by violent revolution is, all things considered, surprisingly small

"Great news! It's not really an authoritarian regime if they can eventually be ousted through peaceful means!" I declare to overjoyed crowds in 1936 Moscow

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Come to think of it, I've got an unused interview with Elliot Maggin about it, too

As your co-author is aware, I am on record declaring this to be the greatest Superman comic book of all time, so I approve.

"Democrats must turn away from radical group politics and nominate a winning centrist candidate"

I think that every single person in government and high-level business believes firmly that they are in a video game, and they are the only character being controlled by a human player

The thing is, "Donald Trump feuds with Pope" "Iran war drags on," and "People are constantly freaked out about computers" are all extremely 1988-coded headlines

Glad to see we're having discussions on steps toward starting a conversation that may, in due time, result in a robust dialogue

I write this now, and yet I almost had the chance to interview him in 2024, and I can't guarantee I wouldn't have been the offender.

How many STRATCOM's has the Pope?

Just have to settle for an old-school paste-up, in that case

Looking forward to getting a new copy before I can ritually burn the one with the old name on a pile of Solarman comics

Like making a meal out of the worm in the tequila bottle, as far as I'm concerned

Observable reality can intrude, but it takes an awful lot to do it: a Great Depression, for instance, or a junior-league 2008 version of it. I think Donald Trump was the eventual proof that, unfortunately, Joe McGinnis was pretty much on the money.

What everyone is working to dodge, I think, is having to stare into the abyss of presidential elections being almost wholly disconnected from any policy position or political consequence at all

I don't think that tracks, though. Throughout 2024, Harris consistently outpolled Trump on "cares about people like me." And she's the one everyone now claims got blamed for inflation!

My explanation for that is that presidential elections, much more than local or congressional elections, have vastly more to do with personal charisma and charm than with any empirical real-world facts.

I don't think this theory is right, and part of the evidence here is actually that 2012 election: Obama did win, but Democratic gains in Congress were extremely muted, and Republicans did, in fact, take the House two years earlier. Obama's victory seemed then and now to be a personal one.

I was just thinking the other today that one of the few small blessings of the past half-decade is that nobody ever managed to ask Jules Feiffer about AI.

Many people are saying this

Since commodities, unlike stocks, are tied to the delivery of actual goods, there does come a certain point where the end result of these gambles is just that a lot of people end up significantly poorer than they were before

I think this really gets to the heart of it, and another way of putting it aside from "vibes" is that "the economy" has just become an all-purpose synecdoche for society and politics that tells us both everything and nothing about the public mood

Increasingly feel like the answer to at least half the questions about why things in the news are happening the way they are is just "cocaine"

The notion of this being ordered against a Chinese tanker going outbound from the Persian Gulf puts us in territory I would very much rather not think about

I am less worried about what the captain or crew will do, and more worried about what Pete Hegseth, connected via live video feed, will order them to do