Kind of embarrassed to say that I just discovered Richard Swift's music.

What a prodigious talent, and what a brutal, tragic loss at 41 (in 2018) from cirrhosis.

The guy's talent was just off the hook

I think it's best if you just put me in a home

Sure is a lot of words saying a partisan mope named Sean Keveney, A)is fired and B)launched the Trump administration into a war with Harvard it knows it will (and should) lose.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

The Flamin Groovies' "Shake some action" is probably one of the most underrated rock songs ever.

It just drives and slaps so damned hard.

Being a China hawk (at least on trade issues) is the only rational position. I've covered corporate fraud for decades and it's one of their biggest exports to the US.

That strikes me as a pretty good bargain, with the proviso that I've no idea what a real bargain is for sporting events in GBP.

The sad thing about the cost of attending live sport "fixtures" in the US is they're ~ out of reach for all but the richest fans

Damn that looks like a pretty civilized way to take in a match. Probably doesn't murder the banking account either? I guess the US equivalent would be AA or AAA minor league baseball.

Recently, no. I would point to the GFC as evidence the first at what G-S would have ably prevented.

Although that crypto currency contagion thing in the summer of '23 was pretty funny

Navigable paper lines.
A hard and fast firewall that worked for 60 years was the only real solution

(Regulations that industry pushes for is no kind of regulation)

This is silly. Where were the Senate votes for any of this anti-corruption legislation? What about enforcement initiatives and budget allocations in Democratic admins?

She knows that Clinton took apart Glass Steagall? That Obama, with a mandate to regulate too big to fail banks, punted?

I am alive at a time when a reporter who wrote the words below would not be immediately fired for being on acid, primarily because what they wrote is true

The US is doing a CBE on invading a friendly sovereign's territory

31 years ago today, this joke first aired on TV.

This is.... entirely correct? Or was that it just couldn't be monetized at scale?

Excellent question

In a few weeks, I have gone from viewing the USA as a nation where the rule of law was under pressure, to where it doesn't exist in a meaningful sense.

A girl who wrote an op-ed in her college paper was disappeared; $NKLA's Trevor Milton, a corporate crook, was just pardoned

Astonishing how POTUS can force one of the world's largest, most profitable law firms to its knees over a meaningless, virtue signaling piece of paper

The network of private and public entities that made up the institutional United States is in total disarray

All these years on and @irisdement.bsky.social "Our Town" still floors me with its starkly haunting elegance.

IMO it ranks with Billie Holliday's "Strange Fruit" and John Prine's "Paradise" for lyrically illuminating what so many Americans (myself included) work hard to avoid thinking about

Black Bag was really good.

I do, however, wonder if a lot of the reason I liked it was simply because scripted movies are so rare. Probably though, it was legitimately good.

Michael Fassbender was excellent, you can take that to the bank

Seven-figure advances and significant royalty packages require franchises that generate nine figures

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Cheaper?

Is there a tipping point where voters reject dismantling the institutions that truly make America exceptional?

People seem to be fine with the elimination of American scientific and medical supremacy

I feel this; I have been there.

This does, however, answer the question of how they can be a core sponsor of Yankees' broadcasts for the last 35 years

POTUS banking performative non-events that appear to be deliverables to his base.

All before, you know, millions of US citizens have to choose between food and light

Totally! 99% of the conference attendees are liberal-to-centrist Dems, and we all see it as performative foolishness.

It's honey, however, to Bari Weiss and the GOP, who can weave it into whatever narrative they need

That's the far left for you

Yes, a bunch of times. I attend an annual journalism conference at Cal Berkeley. (One of my favorite conferences, and one of my favorite places, btw)

I agree, it's a fair point. Everybody but the far left thinks it's stupid, and it motivates the assholes in the GOP (most of them)

Land acknowledgments are the stupidest thing the left does.

It also has extremely complex accounting that has long attracted critical scrutiny. @roddyboyd.bsky.social looked at Brookfield Asset Management in 2013, what @johnhempton.bsky.social said at the time "is as black-box as they come"

The institutions collapsed after a multi-generation struggle where one party argued government is a combination of corrupt and incapable of delivering efficient services

what bank would have the balls to make a collateral call to Musk as the value of the Tesla shares he pledged falls?