We demonstrate over and over again that we can clock cheating, and then go ahead and support the cheater—if he’s *our* cheater. Marital infidelity has never been disqualifying.

I prefer to call them “people who unfortunate possess the franchise”

This guy can suck all the dicks. That’s something I say. I hope it’s ok.

Two million dollars is a little warm. If I want to sit next to a fat guy who smells like dirty diapers, I can just buy a ticket at the Academy in Colorado Boulevard.

What if it’s attached to a homing pigeon and you have reason to believe the writer doubts his abilities as a pigeon-trainer? Shouldn’t you write back say, “Fear not and be of good cheer. Your pigeon flies true, and your missive hath found me anon. Your pigeon found me well and truly!”

Bravo! You should be very proud to have inspired such forthright knowledge-seeking. To have brought even one of your students to that moment of agency and self-understanding is an achievement…and this is undoubtedly just one of many.

Um, Roger Taney would like a word…

Chief Justice Roger Taney: Black people have "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

Chief Justice John Roberts: Citizens have no rights that the President and the Supreme Court Court may not transgress.

Oh, no, Elias. We’re just looking at business as usual.

Oh, keep them. These things are such a gift to future generations of your family. They’re a way to know your parents that’s singular. If you’re on the fence, maybe have someone you trust read them with your concerns in mind. I’ve come across caches of letters like this, and they’re so profound.

Let's turn a rom-com into Midnight Express.

This kid is as fragile as spun sugar, and he doesn’t seem to enjoy one second of his own dismal shtick. Even Donald Trump, who is a toilet tank of a man, has fun being a shitheel.

I’m totally Team Leo, though not a Catholic—and as of the last ten years, not a Christian either. I’d like to see Vance get the boot as much as anyone. But “Don’t go away mad; just go away,” especially in the numbers reflected here, seems like kind of weird theology.

Excommunication just before he publishes a book about converting to Catholicism would be…delicious.

Sir, this is an In-N-Out.

It’s called snitch-praying

It’s also a confession on the part of the United States to the charge of economic terrorism

All urban police departments should make their top priority the assiduous enforcement of parking spaces reserved at curbside with cheap plastic chairs in residential neighborhoods.

Little hope that any of these clowns will ever stand for anything.

Give it two weeks.

Can’t speak to the definition, but this is China.

I make people better. Just about anybody is better by comparison.

It is most certainly who we are. It’s sick and depraved, but at this point, it’s who we are.

The political people for sure, too. But what’s emerging is that the behavior was pretty constant and varied, over a long stretch of time, and not all victims were traumatized. Again, focused enterprise and sensitive inquiry. If we can’t depend on journos to ferret it out (and end it), then who?

This problem existed for ten years, we're told by journalists and political operatives, and "everyone knew." A little more focused enterprise and sensitive inquiry on the part of journalists might surely have been expected. Consider Gary Hart: they decided to take him down, and it was over in weeks.

Hillbilly Colostomy: A Memoir of Feeling Full and Doing Something About It

You could require every college student to do it, which would be, like…good for them.

I have an idea: what if we came up with a curriculum that leaned heavily on humanities so as to inculcate strong moral and ethical values, as well as appreciation for the arts and literature? The idea would be to reduce the incidence of rapacity and soullessness…

The president and his Secretary of State were at a UFC match—an event for which both men wore make up—while the talks with Iran were collapsing. The line between fake and real is now just the faintest little scar, spackled over with foundation.

But does it not seem as though every now and then some MAGA goon—a Miller or a Vought—seizes the means of destruction and successfully points it at something like…national elections?