rogergathmann
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Always in a sweat. Also, sorry, I never use that chat key. I'm not a good recipient for hot tips, or hotness of any type. Also, should say, if you support the Gaza genocide, don't reply to me. I'll block you. .
Politico has one of those "call to retreat" articles that Democratic "moderates" just love, since they don't have to argue for their beliefs and what they want to do but about project that on the peeps out there
January 18, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Politico has one of those "call to retreat" articles that Democratic "moderates" just love, since they don't have to argue for their beliefs and what they want to do but about project that on the peeps out there
“I did very well for the store for six years, and it’s just time to move on for me,” Mr. Domanico said. He said he wanted to focus on his other businesses, including selling gun-related items.” I clipped this lslugger quote from the article in the NYT limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
The three line novel
economics, literature, politics, culture
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January 17, 2026 at 10:27 AM
“I did very well for the store for six years, and it’s just time to move on for me,” Mr. Domanico said. He said he wanted to focus on his other businesses, including selling gun-related items.” I clipped this lslugger quote from the article in the NYT limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
Early on in The House of Mirth, Lily Bart, Edith Wharton's central protagonist, has a stab of insight about Percy Gryce, the heir she is pursuing, and his kind, such as Gwen van Osburgh, the heiress her cousin is pursuing:
January 16, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Early on in The House of Mirth, Lily Bart, Edith Wharton's central protagonist, has a stab of insight about Percy Gryce, the heir she is pursuing, and his kind, such as Gwen van Osburgh, the heiress her cousin is pursuing:
There was a period in my life when I got obsessed with Pareto. Why did I get obsessed with Pareto? Well, at the time, I had some vague notion of Pareto’s theories as the crackable code of neoliberal economics.
January 14, 2026 at 7:47 AM
There was a period in my life when I got obsessed with Pareto. Why did I get obsessed with Pareto? Well, at the time, I had some vague notion of Pareto’s theories as the crackable code of neoliberal economics.
Jonathan Crary is the man for the attention problem of the nineteenth century, whose book – Suspensions of Perception – threads an amazing path through the interface between sensation and psychology that seemed, when it was published in 2000, to give us a useable past
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Jonathan Crary is the man for the attention problem of the nineteenth century, whose book – Suspensions of Perception – threads an amazing path through the interface between sensation and psychology that seemed, when it was published in 2000, to give us a useable past
So… I’m sitting in the classroom of one of my son’s science teachers at the College and we are “conferring”. It is a parent-teacher conference, one of the many that night, all being scheduled before the Winter vacation.
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
So… I’m sitting in the classroom of one of my son’s science teachers at the College and we are “conferring”. It is a parent-teacher conference, one of the many that night, all being scheduled before the Winter vacation.
And how's the old Pimp in Chief, Trump, doing today? how's the old STD-caused dementia going?
January 10, 2026 at 8:32 AM
And how's the old Pimp in Chief, Trump, doing today? how's the old STD-caused dementia going?
I'm determined to get together the words "pimp" and "trump" and make them trend.
January 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I'm determined to get together the words "pimp" and "trump" and make them trend.
I'm less and less interested by Trump as a fascist, and more and more by Trump as a pimp. Viewing Trump as a pimp, and viewing his entire socio-political viewpoint as that of a particularly sleazy pimp, the kind that steals from the girls and the johns,
January 9, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I'm less and less interested by Trump as a fascist, and more and more by Trump as a pimp. Viewing Trump as a pimp, and viewing his entire socio-political viewpoint as that of a particularly sleazy pimp, the kind that steals from the girls and the johns,
limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/some...
As is well known, Nabokov had contempt for Dostoevsky. I’ve long regarded that as the bad taste of good taste – of having too strong a taste for a certain kind of novel and poem that cages you into a certain school or style.
As is well known, Nabokov had contempt for Dostoevsky. I’ve long regarded that as the bad taste of good taste – of having too strong a taste for a certain kind of novel and poem that cages you into a certain school or style.
Some objections to Nabokov
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January 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/01/some...
As is well known, Nabokov had contempt for Dostoevsky. I’ve long regarded that as the bad taste of good taste – of having too strong a taste for a certain kind of novel and poem that cages you into a certain school or style.
As is well known, Nabokov had contempt for Dostoevsky. I’ve long regarded that as the bad taste of good taste – of having too strong a taste for a certain kind of novel and poem that cages you into a certain school or style.
The Jan. 6 crowd = ICE. This should be apparent. Congress voted to give the January 6 people 100 billion dollars. One of the grossest and stupidest moves in the sad history of America's 21st century. Or, as they will call it later - The era of the rise of China.
January 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM
The Jan. 6 crowd = ICE. This should be apparent. Congress voted to give the January 6 people 100 billion dollars. One of the grossest and stupidest moves in the sad history of America's 21st century. Or, as they will call it later - The era of the rise of China.
When many Dem legislators, under the delusion that they had lost 2024 b/c they hadn't tortured enough trans peeps orimmigrants, voted for ICE they were really voting for the gang that rampaged through the Capital 1/6/21. And this is what we, predictably, get.
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 AM
When many Dem legislators, under the delusion that they had lost 2024 b/c they hadn't tortured enough trans peeps orimmigrants, voted for ICE they were really voting for the gang that rampaged through the Capital 1/6/21. And this is what we, predictably, get.
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Here’s a picture of the ice agent who killed the woman in Minnesota today. This killer needs a lot of sunshine please share.
January 7, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Here’s a picture of the ice agent who killed the woman in Minnesota today. This killer needs a lot of sunshine please share.
The NYT is crowing about their "sitdown interview' with Trump: the guy who sends out 200 unhinged tweets a day and is on tv every fucking day. answering questions and smirking. The NYT headline is: "Trump Sits Down With Times Reporters for Two-Hour Interview." I'm just creaming my shorts with joy!
January 8, 2026 at 10:10 AM
The NYT is crowing about their "sitdown interview' with Trump: the guy who sends out 200 unhinged tweets a day and is on tv every fucking day. answering questions and smirking. The NYT headline is: "Trump Sits Down With Times Reporters for Two-Hour Interview." I'm just creaming my shorts with joy!
Whenever another fascistoid thing happens, like the murder of Renee Nicole Good, there are always supposedly lefty voices going: the other side is rallying now! or, the other side will use this to criticize X. As if the very existence of a far right wing should deflate our response. Fuck that.
January 8, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Whenever another fascistoid thing happens, like the murder of Renee Nicole Good, there are always supposedly lefty voices going: the other side is rallying now! or, the other side will use this to criticize X. As if the very existence of a far right wing should deflate our response. Fuck that.
The snuffmaker in question is a man named Thomas Wirgman. Wirgman’s father owned a “fashionable” toy shop on St. James Street, which is known in Johnsoniana due to the fact that Samuel Johnson bought his silver buckles there, when he had need of silver buckles.
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 PM
The snuffmaker in question is a man named Thomas Wirgman. Wirgman’s father owned a “fashionable” toy shop on St. James Street, which is known in Johnsoniana due to the fact that Samuel Johnson bought his silver buckles there, when he had need of silver buckles.
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I honestly don’t think there’s a single figure in American history who has fundamentally shifted the way I understand the world I live in more radically than Fred Hampton. once you know the story you can’t un-know it and you see it repeated everywhere
The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 AM
I honestly don’t think there’s a single figure in American history who has fundamentally shifted the way I understand the world I live in more radically than Fred Hampton. once you know the story you can’t un-know it and you see it repeated everywhere
In Leslie Stephen’s Studies of a Biographer there is a passage about the transmission of Kant’s philosophy to Britain that rather warms my populist heart. I like an intellectual history to have detours, eccentricities, and coincidences ...
January 6, 2026 at 8:42 PM
In Leslie Stephen’s Studies of a Biographer there is a passage about the transmission of Kant’s philosophy to Britain that rather warms my populist heart. I like an intellectual history to have detours, eccentricities, and coincidences ...
Bela Tarr, RIP. One of the great filmmakers of the past twenty years. You call it miserabilisme. I call it ecstasy.
László Krasznahorkai (with scenes from the Béla Tarr film "Damnation". The screenplay was cowritten by Tarr and Krasznahorkai) - BOTD
January 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Bela Tarr, RIP. One of the great filmmakers of the past twenty years. You call it miserabilisme. I call it ecstasy.
When I read Blue Maga posts claiming Biden as a progressive president, I think: progressive definitely is being defined downward here. You cannot be progressive when the tax on the wealthiest is below what it was even under Reagan.
January 6, 2026 at 12:53 PM
When I read Blue Maga posts claiming Biden as a progressive president, I think: progressive definitely is being defined downward here. You cannot be progressive when the tax on the wealthiest is below what it was even under Reagan.
I remember, this 1/6, that Biden appointed a DOJ with ties to the Federalist society and that Trump was never even indicted for treason. Biden ratfucked the country. Why? Here's a theory: being a decrepit old geezer, he thought he'd have a shot at being reelected by running against Trump again.
January 6, 2026 at 8:56 AM
I remember, this 1/6, that Biden appointed a DOJ with ties to the Federalist society and that Trump was never even indicted for treason. Biden ratfucked the country. Why? Here's a theory: being a decrepit old geezer, he thought he'd have a shot at being reelected by running against Trump again.
Venezuela has nothing to lose at this point, so I think that the Venezuelan Department of Justice should consider indicting Trump as a conspirator in the international trade in underage women for the purposes of rape and prostitution. Use the Epstein material. Go there.
January 6, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Venezuela has nothing to lose at this point, so I think that the Venezuelan Department of Justice should consider indicting Trump as a conspirator in the international trade in underage women for the purposes of rape and prostitution. Use the Epstein material. Go there.
Americans cannot afford another Bush. In 2003-2004, Bush could throw a trillion dollars on the barbie and peeps were like, whopee! But Trump throwing a trillion dollars on the barbie, bond dealers are gonna be like, raise those points! The wreck is here.
January 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Americans cannot afford another Bush. In 2003-2004, Bush could throw a trillion dollars on the barbie and peeps were like, whopee! But Trump throwing a trillion dollars on the barbie, bond dealers are gonna be like, raise those points! The wreck is here.
I am thinkiing about the sloppy imperialism in Venezuela in connection to U.S. debt and the possibility - which I think is very strong - of recession this year. The numbers don't look good for even a minor dabbling in oil imperialism.
January 5, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I am thinkiing about the sloppy imperialism in Venezuela in connection to U.S. debt and the possibility - which I think is very strong - of recession this year. The numbers don't look good for even a minor dabbling in oil imperialism.
The idea that our Degenerate-in-Chief is going to wake up enough to rule Venezuela is a prop, tossed out by the media, to make us belief the DIC has the stamina to go a week with any project whatsoever.
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The idea that our Degenerate-in-Chief is going to wake up enough to rule Venezuela is a prop, tossed out by the media, to make us belief the DIC has the stamina to go a week with any project whatsoever.