The typically superb new Todd in the Shadows video is a good excuse to have a Conversation about how Don't Worry Be Happy is a good piece of music if you ignore the stupid top line, and Fast Car is bad social realist melodrama like the worst songs on The Times They Are a'Changing
ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Piano in the Dark" by Brenda Russell
YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows
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November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The typically superb new Todd in the Shadows video is a good excuse to have a Conversation about how Don't Worry Be Happy is a good piece of music if you ignore the stupid top line, and Fast Car is bad social realist melodrama like the worst songs on The Times They Are a'Changing
When you're mean to America or women, this is who you're being mean to
Joan La Barbara - Les Oiseaux qui chantent dans ma tête
YouTube video by vox_ritualis
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November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
When you're mean to America or women, this is who you're being mean to
I wish Harold had lived to a robust 95 if only to give his opinion on Megan applying his beloved word "cognitive" to the rich morons he had to pretend to teach (he saw the whole ARC of mass higher ed, from Dewey Republican twits to temporary meritocracy to the incestuous top 20% monopoly after 1975)
Damn it's almost like there's been a 50-year long project by rightwing billionaires to convince people their lives suck because of the local associate professor of gender studies and not the wholesale pillaging of state and society
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I wish Harold had lived to a robust 95 if only to give his opinion on Megan applying his beloved word "cognitive" to the rich morons he had to pretend to teach (he saw the whole ARC of mass higher ed, from Dewey Republican twits to temporary meritocracy to the incestuous top 20% monopoly after 1975)
You all should read the piece but isn't that portrait invaluable, like Trump interviews from the '80s when he hadn't yet perfected the character and still used big words
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You all should read the piece but isn't that portrait invaluable, like Trump interviews from the '80s when he hadn't yet perfected the character and still used big words
The real sexual essentialism: identity politics for men is a non-starter, pleading to be included in something female, compare the successful misogynist 18th century leftists versus supposedly and to some extent really sexually egalitarian aristocrats - doctrinaire meritocrats
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The real sexual essentialism: identity politics for men is a non-starter, pleading to be included in something female, compare the successful misogynist 18th century leftists versus supposedly and to some extent really sexually egalitarian aristocrats - doctrinaire meritocrats
It's funny how neoliberalism - more specifically free trade and open borders - is perfectly designed to produce nativism, because when you give all the jobs to foreigners, the only argument for why someone should have a better life than the global average is "This is my country"
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It's funny how neoliberalism - more specifically free trade and open borders - is perfectly designed to produce nativism, because when you give all the jobs to foreigners, the only argument for why someone should have a better life than the global average is "This is my country"
Nietzsche said the problem with Jesus was he liked having women around but neglected to add that this was his innovation on the prophets of the Hebrew Bible
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Nietzsche said the problem with Jesus was he liked having women around but neglected to add that this was his innovation on the prophets of the Hebrew Bible
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We haven’t bothered training and hiring people to do these jobs so might as well see if AI and magical thinking can plug the gaps. Better than nothing right? Even if it does just make things up and provide a crap service to people.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We haven’t bothered training and hiring people to do these jobs so might as well see if AI and magical thinking can plug the gaps. Better than nothing right? Even if it does just make things up and provide a crap service to people.
Seeing a new ad for that office robot, this one about how it takes notes for you, I assume because they're scared of that study that said notes by hand are better, and grateful again to whatever genius gave them the name that inescapably brings to mind C|i¢kH01e
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Seeing a new ad for that office robot, this one about how it takes notes for you, I assume because they're scared of that study that said notes by hand are better, and grateful again to whatever genius gave them the name that inescapably brings to mind C|i¢kH01e
The thing about Spike going out of his way to insult Quentin, while praising Martin and Paul's barely veiled race war fantasy, is that it proves "I'm blacker than you" still stings, or more to the point, the implicit: You're even whiter than I am
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The thing about Spike going out of his way to insult Quentin, while praising Martin and Paul's barely veiled race war fantasy, is that it proves "I'm blacker than you" still stings, or more to the point, the implicit: You're even whiter than I am
"And that makes sense in a way. Not only is Wright a Brit but not a single minute of this film was even shot on American soil [...] Wright said lightheartedly in a recent interview, The idea of coming to Hollywood is now in big inverted commas because nothing shoots in Los Angeles"
Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.
The Running Man Trips Across the Starting Line
Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.
jacobin.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"And that makes sense in a way. Not only is Wright a Brit but not a single minute of this film was even shot on American soil [...] Wright said lightheartedly in a recent interview, The idea of coming to Hollywood is now in big inverted commas because nothing shoots in Los Angeles"
By the way remember when Douglas Adams' whimsical, harmless Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy that just so happened to originate at the dawn of neoliberalism in 1978 started by accusing the state of doing this kind of thing
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November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
By the way remember when Douglas Adams' whimsical, harmless Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy that just so happened to originate at the dawn of neoliberalism in 1978 started by accusing the state of doing this kind of thing
I joked about how anti-cool-girl-ism would end in feminism disowning all their old "first woman to" heroes, and fully reverting to the sexual conformism that hated them in their own time, so God is punishing me by letting me see my prediction come true in the wild
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I joked about how anti-cool-girl-ism would end in feminism disowning all their old "first woman to" heroes, and fully reverting to the sexual conformism that hated them in their own time, so God is punishing me by letting me see my prediction come true in the wild
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What is the most underrated instrument and why is it the bass flute
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What is the most underrated instrument and why is it the bass flute
He's not wrong as far as he goes but he'd still have to solve the problem that the strong dollar makes being a worthless i-banker more remunerative for Americans than learning how to do something useful, which of course is how we got here in the first place
Trump: he sent ice and removed them...idiot
We are not going to be successful if we don't allow people that invest billions of dollars in plant and equipment to bring a lot of their people from their country to get that plant open, operating and working.
I am sorry.
We are not going to be successful if we don't allow people that invest billions of dollars in plant and equipment to bring a lot of their people from their country to get that plant open, operating and working.
I am sorry.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
He's not wrong as far as he goes but he'd still have to solve the problem that the strong dollar makes being a worthless i-banker more remunerative for Americans than learning how to do something useful, which of course is how we got here in the first place
The Enlightenment was stolen from the Iroquois and the Ottoman empire, but the Iroquois were matriarchal (this is good) anarcho-syndicalists and the Ottoman empire were pluralistic, multiracial, multiethnic and the Enlightenment invented Whiteness and The Patriarchy, this is a legacy of when Big Hea
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Enlightenment was stolen from the Iroquois and the Ottoman empire, but the Iroquois were matriarchal (this is good) anarcho-syndicalists and the Ottoman empire were pluralistic, multiracial, multiethnic and the Enlightenment invented Whiteness and The Patriarchy, this is a legacy of when Big Hea
"He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspiration goes"
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspiration goes"
What's interesting is that she "thinks" instructions for living in a blah blah blah Democracy are Useful for people living in 21st century oligarchic America
This Jill Lepore interview is making some waves 'cuz she says, in effect, that woke nearly drove her from academia and she's ashamed she didn't speak up about its excesses. But this bit really startled me. a) the "forgotten people" work she disses produced great stuff that had a big impact and...
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
What's interesting is that she "thinks" instructions for living in a blah blah blah Democracy are Useful for people living in 21st century oligarchic America
Review of something else reminding to be mad at you geniuses for saying "The revelatory 2023 revival of Merrily We Roll Along, which finally clarified" - also now thinking how some Goethe society praised Hugo Wolf for "explicating" the old man (ha ha silly olds, we would never)
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Review of something else reminding to be mad at you geniuses for saying "The revelatory 2023 revival of Merrily We Roll Along, which finally clarified" - also now thinking how some Goethe society praised Hugo Wolf for "explicating" the old man (ha ha silly olds, we would never)
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Superlative investigation by Moe Tkacik.
A major chunk of the expansion in Obamacare the past few years comes out of Florida and Texas, where fraudsters scoured for low-income and homeless people to sell them janky "bronze" plans so they could collect subsidies.
A major chunk of the expansion in Obamacare the past few years comes out of Florida and Texas, where fraudsters scoured for low-income and homeless people to sell them janky "bronze" plans so they could collect subsidies.
The Obamacare Boiler Room - The American Prospect
Perhaps no Florida health care scam has so concisely illustrated the burning need to rethink our broken health care system.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Superlative investigation by Moe Tkacik.
A major chunk of the expansion in Obamacare the past few years comes out of Florida and Texas, where fraudsters scoured for low-income and homeless people to sell them janky "bronze" plans so they could collect subsidies.
A major chunk of the expansion in Obamacare the past few years comes out of Florida and Texas, where fraudsters scoured for low-income and homeless people to sell them janky "bronze" plans so they could collect subsidies.
I like the song but the book collection at the beginning of the video is itself a lovely insult www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9iz...
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I like the song but the book collection at the beginning of the video is itself a lovely insult www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9iz...
Great locked tweet comparing Patricia Lockwood and Tony Tulathimutte making me think how the disadvantage of the millennial Canon, whose absence you were all whining about, coalescing right on schedule, is that it means our Voices are now old enough to have become irrelevant
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Great locked tweet comparing Patricia Lockwood and Tony Tulathimutte making me think how the disadvantage of the millennial Canon, whose absence you were all whining about, coalescing right on schedule, is that it means our Voices are now old enough to have become irrelevant
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Why is there a shortage of single family homes?
Many reasons, but one underexplored factor is that financing for homebuilding has changed dramatically
My new paper dives into that history and offer policy solutions
www.economicliberties.us/our-work/cap...
Many reasons, but one underexplored factor is that financing for homebuilding has changed dramatically
My new paper dives into that history and offer policy solutions
www.economicliberties.us/our-work/cap...
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Why is there a shortage of single family homes?
Many reasons, but one underexplored factor is that financing for homebuilding has changed dramatically
My new paper dives into that history and offer policy solutions
www.economicliberties.us/our-work/cap...
Many reasons, but one underexplored factor is that financing for homebuilding has changed dramatically
My new paper dives into that history and offer policy solutions
www.economicliberties.us/our-work/cap...
When will a comedian have the courage to do a joke about how pious neoliberal pro-democracy icons always do this, like Woody Allen's communist revolutionary in Bananas
Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh's pro-democracy icon who became an autocrat
Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh's pro-democracy icon who became an autocrat
Sheikh Hasina is credited for the country's economic progress but also accused of authoritarianism.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When will a comedian have the courage to do a joke about how pious neoliberal pro-democracy icons always do this, like Woody Allen's communist revolutionary in Bananas