Letters From Inside the Whale
@lasleyg.bsky.social
Author, teacher of film, literature, and American Studies
He’s lost it
January 31, 2026 at 10:09 PM
He’s lost it
I love this family. Art, with feeling and grace.
January 31, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I love this family. Art, with feeling and grace.
Think it could be the AWFUL movement that thinks women should shut up, stay home, and serve their man?
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Think it could be the AWFUL movement that thinks women should shut up, stay home, and serve their man?
Cleaning out my sock drawer. Is Bezos using tax cut to pay for this? Hungry people without healthcare want to know.
January 27, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Cleaning out my sock drawer. Is Bezos using tax cut to pay for this? Hungry people without healthcare want to know.
The Humanities and venerable monks walking in the name of peace
January 25, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The Humanities and venerable monks walking in the name of peace
I think the definition we’re seeking is “power whore”
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I think the definition we’re seeking is “power whore”
Wishing the rule of law were still being applied to any and all who break it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Wishing the rule of law were still being applied to any and all who break it.
No love for America and Americans. There’s a war going on inside that head, and we the people suffer the consequences of the battle born of neediness and unquenchable hatred.
January 15, 2026 at 9:11 PM
No love for America and Americans. There’s a war going on inside that head, and we the people suffer the consequences of the battle born of neediness and unquenchable hatred.
Can we say, “lock ‘em up”?
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Can we say, “lock ‘em up”?
J D Vance has thoroughly disqualified himself from ever being president. Words matter. Ugly, cruel, hateful…astoundingly thoughtless and careless.
January 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
J D Vance has thoroughly disqualified himself from ever being president. Words matter. Ugly, cruel, hateful…astoundingly thoughtless and careless.
What a stupid sentence.
January 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
What a stupid sentence.
Noem treats human beings like she treated her dog. Life means nothing to her. Psychopath.
January 8, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Noem treats human beings like she treated her dog. Life means nothing to her. Psychopath.
I’m sick and tired of the anti “woke” anti DEI claim that Dems deal in “Subjective” truths. Facts are facts, and BS dropped from cartoon clouds stinks to high heaven. Meanwhile, the GOP reflects major character flaws: immorality, cruelty, narcissism, greed, spinelessness. Evidence talks.
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I’m sick and tired of the anti “woke” anti DEI claim that Dems deal in “Subjective” truths. Facts are facts, and BS dropped from cartoon clouds stinks to high heaven. Meanwhile, the GOP reflects major character flaws: immorality, cruelty, narcissism, greed, spinelessness. Evidence talks.
America was founded on a truth that all men (and women, for God’s sake) are created equal. Society needs constant reminders of that as we the people do the work of forming a more perfect union.
January 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
America was founded on a truth that all men (and women, for God’s sake) are created equal. Society needs constant reminders of that as we the people do the work of forming a more perfect union.
The whole anti “ woke, anti DEI thing and the Democratic effort to be inclusive rather than bigoted, cruel, greedy, narcissistic, spineless, immoral (I could go on) is beyond ridiculous. As is the term “subjective” truth. Facts are facts.
January 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The whole anti “ woke, anti DEI thing and the Democratic effort to be inclusive rather than bigoted, cruel, greedy, narcissistic, spineless, immoral (I could go on) is beyond ridiculous. As is the term “subjective” truth. Facts are facts.
Get the sarcasm, but can there be a stranger thing than this abduction of Jesus and codified destruction of the soul of Christianity? Does “they know not what they do” meet the defense strategy? I think not.
December 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Get the sarcasm, but can there be a stranger thing than this abduction of Jesus and codified destruction of the soul of Christianity? Does “they know not what they do” meet the defense strategy? I think not.
Wasn’t on my Christmas wish list either…
December 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Wasn’t on my Christmas wish list either…
Why does it take so many so long to get it?
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Why does it take so many so long to get it?
Can’t we recycle those and use to make an “And Justice for all” cap of the remnants?
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Can’t we recycle those and use to make an “And Justice for all” cap of the remnants?
She’s waving. Wave back when morning comes with the sun.
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
She’s waving. Wave back when morning comes with the sun.
Paradox: investigating leaders bringing truth to power about military response to “illegal” orders while Noem and Bove ignore judicial rulings regarding deportation flights without due process.
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Paradox: investigating leaders bringing truth to power about military response to “illegal” orders while Noem and Bove ignore judicial rulings regarding deportation flights without due process.