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“One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he’s really lonely for: this hidden internal self, incontinent of sentiment and need, that pules and writhes just under the hip empty mask, anhedonia.”—DFW, Infinite Jest

We are drifting toward a third world war like a lost umbrella drifting across a pond, blown by the winds of idiocy.

Visiting old graveyards helps put the lie to anti-vaccine propaganda.

Despite the disparity in the cocoons that men weave, in the end there is no escape from the horrors of pupation.

Labor Day Weekend is the Sunday of summer.

The lack of urgency with which the #tedsox have managed/played this game is damning.

I am at this game, and here are my impressions. Suarez was clearly done before the three run homer. That Tracy didn’t make a pitching change then was a failure to recognize that this is a moment where the season rests on a single at bat. #redsox

Has anyone seen Payton Tolle and Mickey Gasper at the same time? #redsox

Trump is the Francesco Schettino of American presidents.

One of the most incredible baseball games I have seen.

If the #redsox win this game, it will be the icing on a cake that is mostly icing at this point.

All potential future Dr. Faucis right now deciding to develop erectile dysfunction drugs for Eli Lilly instead.

Kurt Schumacher denouncing Nazism in a speech at the Reichstag on February 23, 1932: “[It is] a continuous appeal to the inner swine in human beings.”

All of America could have enjoyed what New Yorkers are enjoying now if the DNC had allowed Bernie the nomination in 2016.

Is Trump’s malefic voodoo stronger than the Mamdani magic? Does everything that Trump touches die? The Spurs Knicks game hangs in the balance.

Hope, the anchor, bites you in the ass.

The root of our demise is the failure of the American culture of insatiation. Americans' spiritual desperation has exceeded the capacity of another bottomless wing night at TGI Friday's to palliate. Only by burning America to the ground can their agony find it's proper expression.

"I feel the current quickening, as if we are now firmly in the vortex of a calamitous whirlpool of history that is going to end in cataclysm."

Tried to turn on Red Sox Yankees game on MLBTV. I live in NY, but game is in Boston—I have gotten these games for 20 years through my subscription, but now it’s blacked out. MLB is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs—may cancel. #redsox #mlbtv

It’s a question of what you can weave with the string you’ve been given.

"...we are ALL going to get what Trump deserves."--Thomas Friedman, NYT, 3.31.26

Americans nonchalantly accepting ICE in airports like they’d never read Book II of the Aeneid.

Joe Kent's resignation seems more the result of the incoherence of Republican orthodoxy than adherence to any higher principle. Trump's alliance with Netanyahu, based on their shared criminality and imperialist aims, triggered Kent's nativist, right-wing anti-semitism. Israel caused Gulf War II?

Maybe we shouldn't have voted for Phaethon to drive the chariot of the sun.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Eliot Cohen is an imbecile

How do these oligarchic Epstein affiliates divvy up responsibility for the ruination of society? "Well, Jeff, if you buy the WP and destroy it, I will toss away a few billion to do the same for Twitter. Who's got CBS?"

It seems that there was a calculation on the part of the administration that they could us/them these murders, and it hangs in the balance as to whether or not they miscalculated.

Either Stephen Miller dies in prison, or America dies on the streets of Minneapolis.

“‘My leg’s stinking,’ he said, ‘because I’ve laid up here so long the rot’s set in. You know how that’ll do. That rot will travel till I’m dead right up to my eyes. Till I’m a corpse able to see things. Able to think it’s thoughts.’”—Train Dreams, Denis Johnson

At a moment where we seem to be at a nadir of humankind’s idiocy and inhumanity, perhaps the greatest six minutes of our humanity and genius: youtu.be/D3nkms4toYk?...

There’s something in the air tonight….

“So foul a sky clears not without a storm”—Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, Scene 2

Life becomes simpler when you can admit to yourself what’s actually happening.

Every insight into human behavior I have ever had has come at the cost of admitting something unpleasant to myself about my own psychic needs and motivations.

Guerrero initiates the bat flip on the walk, this inning will see if it takes life.

People fail to take into account that Trump chose RFK Jr. for HHS because it meant that a member of America’s most iconic Democratic family would be humiliating them every day. His idiocy is a feature, not a bug.

Americans are accepting this Trojan Horse “crime fighting” military occupation of their capital as if they’d never read Book Two of The Aeneid.

What we’re witnessing in America right now is what happens when there’s no honor left in being honorable.

You wouldn’t be able to tell if Marco Rubio was being impersonated by AI because it seemed artificial—it would have to be because it seemed intelligent.

Stop trying to explain why Trump is bad. It’s either self-evident or invisible.

A generalization based on admittedly limited evidence, but I have been frustrated that most coverage of Trump’s failure to make a deal with Iran before the Israeli strike doesn’t mention that Trump foolishly killed the same deal, which Obama had made—resulting in the current situation.

A space alien, completing the stations of the cross, laughing at what a melodramatic species humans are.

A totalitarian regime that has developed a medical procedure to confer immortality. It is allotted only to those who ingratiate themselves into its good graces.

The root of our demise is the failure of the American culture of insatiation. Americans' spiritual desperation has exceeded the capacity of another bottomless wing night at TGI Friday's to palliate. Only by burning America to the ground can their agony find it's proper expression.

Any civilian blood spilled by the military in LA will be spattered on the face of every senator who voted to confirm Pete Hegseth.

Some people derive pleasure from seeing people happy, others from seeing them suffer. This explains our current situation better than any political theory, I would venture.

A play where someone someone stands on stage and says "line" 500 times to a silent theater.