Jonathan Cohen
@jkcohen.com
Word-wrangler. U.S. history and philosophy teacher. Literacy tutor with delusions of efficacy. Friend.
If you want the bottom half of the receipt email, just ask!
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
If you want the bottom half of the receipt email, just ask!
I think the dragon is more like this sulky little fellow.
September 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I think the dragon is more like this sulky little fellow.
![White rectangle with the following words: "Who sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood he shed." (Genesis 9:6)
BUT
"[Rabban Gamliel] saw a skull floating on the face of the water. He said to it: ‘Because you drowned others, they drowned you. And in the end, they that drowned you will be drowned.’" (Pirkei Avot 2:6)
Beware the cycle of violence and those who perpetuate it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u7tuam5y6nk6ljsv5aa4ir4t/bafkreigmmmzsp5qzmq5xtevurqvn7zsargkmdov6t27niyvgsiotp3juea@jpeg)
Of all the great New York institutions Donald Trump could have chosen to emulate, he had to pick Leonard's of Great Neck.
August 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Of all the great New York institutions Donald Trump could have chosen to emulate, he had to pick Leonard's of Great Neck.
What do they want? Indentured servitude?
July 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
What do they want? Indentured servitude?
Mercury is *always* in retrograde.
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Mercury is *always* in retrograde.
"This laughter is the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom the pain of the living is not real." It's all around us now.
July 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"This laughter is the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom the pain of the living is not real." It's all around us now.
There wasn't always room for due process in the world back in the fifteenth century. We have had ample time to improve, but our villains are worse than Clarence's Murderers. At least the Murderers had scruples that needed to be quelled.
July 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
There wasn't always room for due process in the world back in the fifteenth century. We have had ample time to improve, but our villains are worse than Clarence's Murderers. At least the Murderers had scruples that needed to be quelled.
More honest than the "Thin Blue Line" flag.
July 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
More honest than the "Thin Blue Line" flag.
Here's what's actually in Trump's Big Bad Ugly Bill. 👇
July 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Here's what's actually in Trump's Big Bad Ugly Bill. 👇
My old prayer book, used five days a week for five years, is in poor condition and has to go to special storage. It is on the right. The new, shiny prayer book is on the left. It's just a tool, and what matters is how you use it. I hope it will help tend me towards the good.
June 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
My old prayer book, used five days a week for five years, is in poor condition and has to go to special storage. It is on the right. The new, shiny prayer book is on the left. It's just a tool, and what matters is how you use it. I hope it will help tend me towards the good.
Several people have taken the "population drop" idea as a eugenicist rapture-like Muskism, in which non-billionaires are immiserated to the point of nonexistence. Could this instead be related to most nations falling far short of their replacement rate, which is legit demography?
April 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Several people have taken the "population drop" idea as a eugenicist rapture-like Muskism, in which non-billionaires are immiserated to the point of nonexistence. Could this instead be related to most nations falling far short of their replacement rate, which is legit demography?
A marble slab from the stoneyard today.
March 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
A marble slab from the stoneyard today.
Michelle, my close relative (msfledermaus.com), in response to our current straits, has embroidered a War Snail.
February 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Michelle, my close relative (msfledermaus.com), in response to our current straits, has embroidered a War Snail.
For a State job years ago, I had to swear an oath that I would protect and defend the Constitutions of the United States and California. This is my duty today.
The symbols of our country cannot be appropriated by any group, faction, or party as solely their own. They are ours as much as theirs.
The symbols of our country cannot be appropriated by any group, faction, or party as solely their own. They are ours as much as theirs.
January 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For a State job years ago, I had to swear an oath that I would protect and defend the Constitutions of the United States and California. This is my duty today.
The symbols of our country cannot be appropriated by any group, faction, or party as solely their own. They are ours as much as theirs.
The symbols of our country cannot be appropriated by any group, faction, or party as solely their own. They are ours as much as theirs.
