Eric Aspengren

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

does the media ever—ever—ask republicans to disavow this open white supremacist?

I converted to Catholicism six weeks before running for office. Here’s what the pope gets wrong about live-streamed executions.

At least when I'm up at night, not sleepy, I can listen to some Swervedriver.

Boris Vallejo is still alive?

Thank God Platner got kicked to the curb.

Oh, man, I need TV when I've got T. Rex

Age discrimination is more common than a lot of people realize.

One aspect of the parasocial style in American politics is a fixation on heroes and villains. The former are taken as both our best friends and invincible, infallible giants. The latter are made out to be shadowy adversaries in league with the devil himself. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-parasoci...

I wish I'd been a baseball pitcher

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy. The University of Wyoming will be the only R1 institution, the only state flagship university, and one of two land-grant universities that do not offer a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...

I can't say I'm surprised, honestly.

He never took things particularly seriously, anyway, so this just fits.

Kinda says it all...

To a Mouse | The Poetry Foundation www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/...

You know, this isn't at all an important thought, but when are we going to stop having events with logos all over the wall. Like, it's just more sameness.

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I'm on my regular obsessive kick about this record. Beautiful song, beautiful voices, wonderful arrangement, lush and immaculate production: k.d. lang - Constant Craving (Official Music Video) | Warner Vault - YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqP...

Wow, Ann Widdecombe was killed?

There was a time when walking a dog at 5:30 am would not have been something I'd allow myself to get dragged into.

There's a difference between people who hate how their party functions and want to change it and people who hate partisanship and run under a party.

More Masket please

I think part of the problem with Platner (and those of his ilk) is party activists who hate partisanship. A strong party wouldn't let stuff like this happen.

I am actually one to say I told you so, by the way

Putting Fable 5 through its paces

Wishing Leibniz the best of all possible 380th birthdays today!

If you find yourself shrugging your shoulders about the issues of the day and especially the compromises being made in the name of political expedience, you should listen to this. If you find yourself saying "that's just how it is" well, this is for you: pca.st/episode/c00d...

@aselrod.bsky.social Coincidental to your recent article and certainly along those same lines. pca.st/episode/c00d...

"Mr secretary! The floor is hers. You know, there is a chairman. That's me" -- even the Republican committee chair is losing patience with Markwayne Mullin, who is gripping a stress ball as he clearly struggles to control his temper

Getting off work at 2:30pm does make up for going into work at 5:30am.

I'm never going to forgive Nick Clegg

Bring back Gordon Brown!

Trump: "Nobody plays rougher than the United States. Look, our elections are totally rigged. We have rigged elections."

Did nobody at the Times Arts desk notice that people in the images are 19/19 male and question whether Dads are really that averse to movies with women in them (and if so, maybe that could have been addressed in the article)

The corporate media drove Joe Biden from office over one bad debate. Meanwhile Trump started and lost an illegal war and engaged in a level of corruption we've never seen. Yet corporate media is not demanding Trump resign or pressing Republicans in Congress to call for him to resign!

I want a time machine so I could go see Tim Buckley open for Nico.

The players and coach actually have a responsibility to say something about this.

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