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Fantastic! One of the rare cases where the book is great, the movie is great, the movie is reasonably faithful to the book, and you can still imagine the book your own way after you've seen the movie. I've never seen the movie in a nice clean print on the big screen, you probably see a lot more...
February 7, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Fantastic! One of the rare cases where the book is great, the movie is great, the movie is reasonably faithful to the book, and you can still imagine the book your own way after you've seen the movie. I've never seen the movie in a nice clean print on the big screen, you probably see a lot more...
Dying to know what kind of food they brought. I'm imagining: Institutional-sized cans of Spaghetti-O's? A freezer full of DiGiorno Rising Crust Ultimate Pepperoni Pizzas? 7-Eleven 6" Italian Subs?
February 7, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Dying to know what kind of food they brought. I'm imagining: Institutional-sized cans of Spaghetti-O's? A freezer full of DiGiorno Rising Crust Ultimate Pepperoni Pizzas? 7-Eleven 6" Italian Subs?
O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
February 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day,
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
When first the shaft into his vision shone
Of light anatomized! Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
February 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
February 7, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
Of course not. Just to be clear, though, my point is that it is crazy to suggest that tariffs don't raise prices. If Walmart or anyone else actually ate the tariffs (they don't), the foreign goods would be as cheap as ever, people would keep buying them, and US producers wouldn't be helped at all.
February 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Of course not. Just to be clear, though, my point is that it is crazy to suggest that tariffs don't raise prices. If Walmart or anyone else actually ate the tariffs (they don't), the foreign goods would be as cheap as ever, people would keep buying them, and US producers wouldn't be helped at all.
These days, most of what Karoline Leavitt does is saying that Trump didn't say what he said.
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
These days, most of what Karoline Leavitt does is saying that Trump didn't say what he said.
So when he fails to land a spacecraft on Mars in 2026, he can say "In 2025, I promised not to go to Mars in 2026 and I kept that promise."
February 7, 2026 at 10:21 PM
So when he fails to land a spacecraft on Mars in 2026, he can say "In 2025, I promised not to go to Mars in 2026 and I kept that promise."
people to buy American by making the foreign product more expensive to buy.
February 7, 2026 at 10:18 PM
people to buy American by making the foreign product more expensive to buy.
An interviewer actually got Bessent to admit that by pressing him with the question "OK, Scott, but, there on the loading dock, when the payment is made, who signs the check?" 2) Of course tariffs raise prices. IF THEY DIDN'T, THEY WOULDN'T WORK. The purpose of a tariff is to encourage
February 7, 2026 at 10:18 PM
An interviewer actually got Bessent to admit that by pressing him with the question "OK, Scott, but, there on the loading dock, when the payment is made, who signs the check?" 2) Of course tariffs raise prices. IF THEY DIDN'T, THEY WOULDN'T WORK. The purpose of a tariff is to encourage
Businesses pass them on. But two other important things to be clear on: 1) even if businesses didn't pass them on, it is still AMERICANS--specifically, the importers--that pay. And the importers are American businesses. Tariff payments don't include a nickel of foreign money.
February 7, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Businesses pass them on. But two other important things to be clear on: 1) even if businesses didn't pass them on, it is still AMERICANS--specifically, the importers--that pay. And the importers are American businesses. Tariff payments don't include a nickel of foreign money.
Got it. "Hybrids" are scorned, but call the same thing an "EREV" and it's cool. How is an "EREV" is any different from a serial hybrid? Like the Chevy Volt?
February 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Got it. "Hybrids" are scorned, but call the same thing an "EREV" and it's cool. How is an "EREV" is any different from a serial hybrid? Like the Chevy Volt?
self-bricking updates. We didn't anticipate updates that would restrict and lock down the software. And we didn't anticipate updates that would scramble the UI so that it would take a week to re-learn how to do everything.
February 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM
self-bricking updates. We didn't anticipate updates that would restrict and lock down the software. And we didn't anticipate updates that would scramble the UI so that it would take a week to re-learn how to do everything.
It is hard to remember the days, up to the late 1990s, when locating, downloading, and installing patches was a laborious chore. And talk of "self-healing software" that would automatically update itself over the Internet seemed like the most wonderful thing imaginable. We didn't anticipate
February 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM
It is hard to remember the days, up to the late 1990s, when locating, downloading, and installing patches was a laborious chore. And talk of "self-healing software" that would automatically update itself over the Internet seemed like the most wonderful thing imaginable. We didn't anticipate
Darn! Misspelled his name. Thanks.
February 7, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Darn! Misspelled his name. Thanks.
Don't you just hate it when the Friday morning forecast says "accumulation of one to three inches possible," the Friday evening forecast says "two to four," and the Saturday morning forecast says "three to five?"
February 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Don't you just hate it when the Friday morning forecast says "accumulation of one to three inches possible," the Friday evening forecast says "two to four," and the Saturday morning forecast says "three to five?"
And he's gotten away with it, apparently just by avoiding ever using the N-word publicly himself. And by avoiding any personal commentary of his own on things he reposts. In his first term he reposted some vile antisemitic thing and got away with saying "I didn't say that, it's just a retweet."
February 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
And he's gotten away with it, apparently just by avoiding ever using the N-word publicly himself. And by avoiding any personal commentary of his own on things he reposts. In his first term he reposted some vile antisemitic thing and got away with saying "I didn't say that, it's just a retweet."
Way back in 2019 I was looking in an airport bookshop for something to read, and was stunned by how much of it was expensive, bulky, heavy trade paperbacks and how little of it was mass market books. I didn't buy anything because I didn't want to pay that much and didn't feel like lugging that much.
February 7, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Way back in 2019 I was looking in an airport bookshop for something to read, and was stunned by how much of it was expensive, bulky, heavy trade paperbacks and how little of it was mass market books. I didn't buy anything because I didn't want to pay that much and didn't feel like lugging that much.
Interesting. I'd forgotten that most of the very wealthy are cosmopolitans, multinationals, global citizens, who do whatever they do all over the world, not just in one country.
February 7, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Interesting. I'd forgotten that most of the very wealthy are cosmopolitans, multinationals, global citizens, who do whatever they do all over the world, not just in one country.
despite appointing Powell himself in 2017 and saying "He’s strong, he’s committed, he’s smart. I am confident that with Jay as a wise steward of the Federal Reserve, it will have the leadership it needs in the years to come.”
February 7, 2026 at 1:36 PM
despite appointing Powell himself in 2017 and saying "He’s strong, he’s committed, he’s smart. I am confident that with Jay as a wise steward of the Federal Reserve, it will have the leadership it needs in the years to come.”
He never takes responsibility for his own actions. I don't know if this is Roy Cohen coaching or bad memory or just craziness. It's particularly bad when he attacks the people he chose himself, praising them to the skies when he did. He has blamed BIDEN for Jerome Powell,
February 7, 2026 at 1:36 PM
He never takes responsibility for his own actions. I don't know if this is Roy Cohen coaching or bad memory or just craziness. It's particularly bad when he attacks the people he chose himself, praising them to the skies when he did. He has blamed BIDEN for Jerome Powell,
Saparmurat Niyazov, the dictator of Turkmenistan from 1985-2006, renamed the months of the year, including one for himself, and one for his mother. The old names were restored two years after his death. He also erected a gold-plated statue of himself that was motor-rotated and always faced the sun.
February 7, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Saparmurat Niyazov, the dictator of Turkmenistan from 1985-2006, renamed the months of the year, including one for himself, and one for his mother. The old names were restored two years after his death. He also erected a gold-plated statue of himself that was motor-rotated and always faced the sun.
Here is CNN's list of 53 times Trump said he’d end the Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office: www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
Fact check: It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office | CNN Politics
He wasn’t joking.
www.cnn.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Here is CNN's list of 53 times Trump said he’d end the Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office: www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
I complete forgot. How is the National Garden of American Heroes coming? [Check Wikipedia] Funded in the OBBB, "sculptors who saw the design specifications... said 'America doesn't have enough quality sculptors or museum-caliber foundries to make this happen on Trump's speedy timeline.'"
February 7, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I complete forgot. How is the National Garden of American Heroes coming? [Check Wikipedia] Funded in the OBBB, "sculptors who saw the design specifications... said 'America doesn't have enough quality sculptors or museum-caliber foundries to make this happen on Trump's speedy timeline.'"
All the US car companies going on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again with EVs... slow and steady wins the race.
February 7, 2026 at 1:36 AM
All the US car companies going on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again with EVs... slow and steady wins the race.