If that comforts you. One thing I give Hillary Clinton credit for is calling out the "vast, right-wing conspiracy" which manufactured the opportunity for voters to put them there. For all the good it did her. Mostly, though, I was remarking on the guy's attempt to distance himself and the regime from the people he pretends are beyond-the-pale crazy when they're all basically the same people.
Holy cow, what a fine selection of music. Rev. Peyton is exactly the kind of Delta-blues infused rock that people in my house love, and it pains me that I've never heard of them before. I'm with you on drum solos being self-indulgent, but in their defense, the Hot Japanese Girl Jazz Band was playing at something called the Hong Kong International Drummer Festival. And who knew Orbison had such a talented back-up band?
I had to read this line several times because it a) makes no fucking sense and b) makes absolutely perfect sense, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of conservative "thought":
"That, too, was a reasonable response to the left’s race-rioting and pandemic authoritarianism in those febrile years."
Not even going to bother unpacking any of that, because it belongs in the Louvre as the perfect distillation of the alternate reality inhabited by Sohrab Ahmari and his fellow travelers on the "intellectual" right. I just can't any more, man.
I just ran across a Page Six piece about Bari Weiss's $10,000/day security detail, which was surprisingly skeptical of the need for the detail particularly while she's laying off CBS newsies in mass quantities, but the comments, man—those people genuinely believe the Democratic party is a front for the Assassins Guild. Like, Chuck Schumer is out there painting red Xs over people's doors; like, he's a race-rioter and febrile authoritarian, maybe, instead of a dithering milquetoast hand-flapper.
Meanwhile I read this horror-inducing story in today's Chicago Tribune about the aftermath of ICE thugs attacking and kidnapping a golden-skinned US citizen:
A confederation of dunces? Never forget, though, that the voters put them there.
If that comforts you. One thing I give Hillary Clinton credit for is calling out the "vast, right-wing conspiracy" which manufactured the opportunity for voters to put them there. For all the good it did her. Mostly, though, I was remarking on the guy's attempt to distance himself and the regime from the people he pretends are beyond-the-pale crazy when they're all basically the same people.
No comfort at all. Just frustration. For all the good it did her, indeed!
Holy cow, what a fine selection of music. Rev. Peyton is exactly the kind of Delta-blues infused rock that people in my house love, and it pains me that I've never heard of them before. I'm with you on drum solos being self-indulgent, but in their defense, the Hot Japanese Girl Jazz Band was playing at something called the Hong Kong International Drummer Festival. And who knew Orbison had such a talented back-up band?
I had to read this line several times because it a) makes no fucking sense and b) makes absolutely perfect sense, in the cloud-cuckoo-land of conservative "thought":
"That, too, was a reasonable response to the left’s race-rioting and pandemic authoritarianism in those febrile years."
Not even going to bother unpacking any of that, because it belongs in the Louvre as the perfect distillation of the alternate reality inhabited by Sohrab Ahmari and his fellow travelers on the "intellectual" right. I just can't any more, man.
Great tunes, though.
I just ran across a Page Six piece about Bari Weiss's $10,000/day security detail, which was surprisingly skeptical of the need for the detail particularly while she's laying off CBS newsies in mass quantities, but the comments, man—those people genuinely believe the Democratic party is a front for the Assassins Guild. Like, Chuck Schumer is out there painting red Xs over people's doors; like, he's a race-rioter and febrile authoritarian, maybe, instead of a dithering milquetoast hand-flapper.
Meanwhile I read this horror-inducing story in today's Chicago Tribune about the aftermath of ICE thugs attacking and kidnapping a golden-skinned US citizen:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/chicago-woman-collision-ice-accountability/
The woman is literally lucky they didn't shoot her. I want out. I want off.