I think reducing our clear conclusions to mere "feelings" is condescending. The Senator's posts imply "feelings" are irrational and transitory, and can be shed through reason, perhaps in a CBT therapist's office. This is the kind of deliberate, gaslighting misprision we get from JD Vance.

In a better world, Jim Clark would never have met Marc Andreessen.

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social I now have two copies because I forgot about the one I preordered months back. I will have to pass one on to someone deserving.

When Roosevelt wanted to appoint Hugo Black as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, he knew that Black had been a former member of the KKK in its heyday. He sounded Black out on the subject, and received Black's word that he had never persecuted Negroes, only Catholics.

Watch out for that flying obelisk! "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye."

Lie and then recant when you get up from the ground.

I've worked out that a 9mm bullet's impact is around 450 joules, but I have no idea how to calculate sandwich impact. My guess is about 40 joules for a foot-long BMT Subway sandwich with all the veggies; does anyone have a more accurate number they'd be willing to share?

The Archbishop of LA has told his parishioners that if they fear being taken by ICE, they are not obliged to come to church or receive the sacraments. In other words, ICE has de facto excommunicated them. The Archbishop has Opus Dei connections; can't he ask the Vance Catholics to ease up?

Did either consider this? Did they work out the implications? It doesn't sound like that, and it may require some visits to the ranking therapist at Bethesda. Otherwise, this will get worse for both of them. I hope that this resolves in a fair and principled way.

You truly do not want that fate for someone you love. If you write her off, what's the point of being married? Intermarriage is difficult precisely because religion can be an impediment that can come back to bite you. (Can you be interred in the same cemetery? How do you raise your kids?)

This is yet another bit of inconsistent "theology" from the Über-Christian. Vance believes in eternal life and other Christian goods, and he believes that all others are damned and will face hellfire. If Usha doesn't convert, too bad for her. She has free will and will regret her decision.

The U.S. government (under Bill Clinton) declined to sign the 1998 Rome Statute establishing ICC jurisdiction in the United States. The only way in which the ICC might intervene is if the U.S. tanks and loses sovereignty (like postwar Japan/Germany, Rwanda, or Yugoslavia ).

Jean Valjean, you're wanted in the bread aisle!

This point was made about George H. W. Bush's "Thousand Points of Light" initiative, which funneled Federal money to churches to "help out with"/supplant Federal antipoverty mandates. 10% from religious and civil charities still was nothing compared to the Feds' 90%.

I think she has no clue about the pushback. This is exactly the kind of train wreck you cause when you are rich and detached from the world everyone else shares. There is no dearth of other examples, especially when the rich deviate so far from everyday morality.

It's basically as frustrating as your old life, except that the bills are greater. And this is exactly what has caused the J.K. Rowling mess. Rowling is trying to make her mark in the world with a heinous POV, is not getting away with it, but doubles down every times she's questioned.

When you get serious money, your ties to your existing world are stressed and broken. You lose a sense of scale. You can change a lot with money, but you can't solve your family problems and you become vulnerable to weird ideas from your new rich peers -- keeping up with the Joneses.

Our immediate neighbors speak, at least, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and some English. We smile, wave to each other, admire their cute dogs, and get along. When our house flooded, one of them lent us a camp bed. Why would I move?