the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

"the stolen oil" is such a shameless phrase

The US needs to ramp up its regulatory culture dramatically and turn the government back into the major funder of artistic and scientific pursuits. Outsourcing all of that to mindless rich people is killing us, not just figuratively, it turns out

Horrific

I thought Fox News just declared Santa was conservative?

Imagine thinking America needs zero migrants

Also interesting in light of the president's repeated claim that affordability is a "Democrat hoax." A wild suggestion since part of Harris's loss is unquestionably the centrist media's insistence that things were basically fine economically (as opposed to, you know, pretty damn rough but improving)

Astonishing. He sees that, mathematically, either women are men are going to constitute the demo with the majority of books (I guess unless another category like nonbinary writers spoils the majority, but I don't think he's so concerned about that). It's just that he needs the majority to be men 🫤

The idea is that white men today are unnaturally paying for the sins of the past. But the truth is that white men of the past, who faced an unnaturally cleared field, didn't have to pay natural costs of their present.

White men now have to compete with diverse voices. Nothing's been taken.

At this point it's tempting to start going to church just so you can quit, you know?

Buddy, my family and I watched The Long Walk yesterday after our big meal and I have to say that going from The Major to the Hamill family's dogs in Christmas costumes is pretty jarring 😄☺️ Merry Christmas!

Oh, I went ahead and got A Golden Wake, too. Any suggestion which to play first? I'm leaning towards Rosewater but they all sound fantastic.