She fell in love with the man who used to wear a merkin atop his head.

Ivan Le Lorraine Albright.

I have seen this artists work at MOMA in NYC. Do you recall his name.

The Whore of Babylon.

Donald Trump has recently been described as a Christ-like figure by his fundamentalist christian followers.

I shall keep it biblical by saying that a far more apt description would be: The Whore of Babylon

Maybe they should both read The Beatitudes.

I don’t believe that Vance actually read “City of God” or “The Confessions”. Maybe he cherry picked some stuff from Augustine or Aquinas, but I doubt he can use them or the Beatitudes to justify the inherent cruelty that he and this administration call for. Pope Leo rightfully called him out

“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”
Donald Trump to Steven Miller

Oh, sorry. That was Satan to Beelzebub in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

Ive sworn off CBS/Paramount since the Ellisons have taken over

My comment to today’s NYTs editorial.

“I wouldn’t trust him to run a bath, let alone the country. I don’t watch him, I don’t listen to him, I don’t read his statements. Nothing, I repeat, nothing, that he says, implies or acts upon is rooted in any semblance of truth.”

Pure, unmitigated, genetically inherent hate and greed.

Do you think J.D. Vance minds?

Charlie Kirk fits the definition of a classic Sophist. Not only that, but the modern pejorative definition as well.

Ref: “On Bullshit”, by Harry Frankfurt.

Specifically: The Ninth Circle

Chat GTP, which I have used extensively, has now been deleted from all of my devices.

I cannot support evil or use the products of those who do.

IBut The Martian or The Expanse-style civilization in 50–200 years?

I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
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“Colonists”? The best historical analogy isn’t The Martian or The Expanse. It’s Roanoke Island, and that was on Earth.
Maybe 500–600 years from now, with uninterrupted investment and some revolutionary physics we can’t yet imagine.
5)

Terraforming? Not happening. Permanent colonies? Not in any meaningful, self-sustaining sense. You’d be talking about sealed habitats dependent on continuous Earth resupply.
4)

No magnetosphere means:
1. constant radiation exposure
2. long-term health catastrophe for settlers
3. atmospheric stripping
4. zero realistic terraforming pathway with anything like current physics

That means no real shielding from solar and cosmic radiation. Over geological time, that’s exactly why Mars lost most of its atmosphere in the first place.
2)

Mars??? As my old british friend used to say: “ Yer ‘avin’ a larf, mate.

My response to the article:

Mars will never be more than a spectacularly expensive stunt. Maybe once, maybe twice.
It has no global magnetic field. None.
1)

Walk?

Pizza and bagels. Big bolus , baby.

@allofitwnyc.bsky.social I saw Bily at the Concert for BanglaDesh at MSG . George Harrison featured him and he almost stole the show. The audience was all his. We were all in the palm of his hand.

Asshole in Chief

We had a few, but Harry Chapin stands out for me.

I like the word “asshole”. Everyone had one so it’s gender neutral.

Just remember:

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

—Samuel Johnson

I was checking out of my hotel in Antigua earlier this week. A Brit who was also checking out noticed my accent and asked me what I thought of Donald Trump.

I looked at him and replied: “Why do you ask, is he dead yet?”

Save me the white meat.