I wonder if the person who owns the painting knows that they own the painting.

Oh, just a few minor addendums and clarifications to ensure that Larry Summers and only Larry Summers is brought Justice for his crimes. 😡

Ultimate photobomb

That would require more self-awareness than Garth Marenghi has. He likes the prose a lot, though it's clearly inferior to his own.

It's a genuinely terrible book.

In 2016, Ben Shapiro published a political thriller called True Allegiance. The Behind the Bastards podcast did a wonderful hate-read of it. One of his interesting decisions was to have the main couple end each phone call with "take a bullet for you, babe."

Spoiler: foreshadowing.

Too late, I've already done that!

Sounds right. Just the illusion that AI can do a worker's job takes that worker's leverage away.

🎶 Here comes the sun, doo da doo doo... 🎶

Be like otterweasel. Chill. Unbothered. Floating. Lying back, not lying to the public on the national news shows.

Ambushing liars with facts is commendable.

According to eia.gov, since January 2025, the price of gasoline has plummeted from $3.19 a gallon to $3.19 a gallon.

So when he claims that gasoline has gone down, it's worth asking what the hell he's talking about.

Never stop reminding people that Kevin hassett wrote the book Dow 36,000, which predicted in 1999 that the Dow would break that number by 2002 (2004 at the latest).

It actually got there in late 2021.

He's an economist who sucks at economics. Full stop.

Because this went so well for them last time.

To be fair, no rat has ever tried to escape a predicament by invading Venezuela... I mean, as far as I know.

It's like, y'know, how mortal humans would be physically destroyed by gazing upon the face of God.

That would be a marked improvement for me, since I have no personality whatsoever.