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An Anthem, for Thanksgiving (Psalm 148)
YouTube video by University of Michigan Chamber Choir - Topic
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November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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"Even what the opening does suggest about Haudenosaunee influence seems to be very deliberately structured by an effort to avoid making falsifiable claims. That effort doesn’t fully succeed"
For your Thanksgiving fighting pleasure, no paywall: williamhogeland.substack.com/p/did-the-ir...
Did the Iroquois Really Influence the Birth of the Union?
For a fight at Thanksgiving, bring that one up.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Even what the opening does suggest about Haudenosaunee influence seems to be very deliberately structured by an effort to avoid making falsifiable claims. That effort doesn’t fully succeed"
The only problem is trying to pin tribalism on the right when it's a perfectly traditional (inherent?) strain in leftism - "The venerable Stalinist institution rejects and pushes aside authentic and ambitious Leninists [...] because of their bourgeois origins"
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The only problem is trying to pin tribalism on the right when it's a perfectly traditional (inherent?) strain in leftism - "The venerable Stalinist institution rejects and pushes aside authentic and ambitious Leninists [...] because of their bourgeois origins"
It has replaced the Bible and Milton though - I mean I know "Look we still have Shakespeare!" is your only move, but you know it's obvious right?
She also makes basic errors of fact. Whatever your opinion of teaching the lyric of Taylor Swift at Harvard, it hasn't replaced Shakespeare there.
For someone defending Truth against Woke, this is dumb.
For someone defending Truth against Woke, this is dumb.
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It has replaced the Bible and Milton though - I mean I know "Look we still have Shakespeare!" is your only move, but you know it's obvious right?
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is saudi arabia a cultural superpower? it's more likely than you think!
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
is saudi arabia a cultural superpower? it's more likely than you think!
Starmer Labour - like always, like their Abundance Democrat counterparts - want open borders, and also want to be able to efficiently imprison everyone for anti-Semitism - objectively they want to import infinite slaves - or in other words, they want to be Dubai. Surprise!
Starmer's government redefines "terrorism" to include for the first time civil disobedience and protest.
Then it declares it's scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters).
In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.
Then it declares it's scrapping the ancient right to trial by jury (because juries too often acquit protesters).
In a rigged justice system, injustice is assured.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Starmer Labour - like always, like their Abundance Democrat counterparts - want open borders, and also want to be able to efficiently imprison everyone for anti-Semitism - objectively they want to import infinite slaves - or in other words, they want to be Dubai. Surprise!
"Weird quirk I could not fit in elsewhere: this song (#1 in like ten countries) has a perfectly healthy 113 million plays on YouTube Music, but “Goodbye My Lover” (#9 here, #1 in a couple places, not nearly as inescapable) is on 343M. I love how streaming inadvertantly distorts the past like this"
Prepopulate: James Blunt -"You're Beautiful"
You know how in a cliché romcom, we are rooting for the schlubby-but-well-meaning guy, played by a comedian, to get the impossibly fit girl, against her more superficially perfect(-but-often-nasty/dis...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"Weird quirk I could not fit in elsewhere: this song (#1 in like ten countries) has a perfectly healthy 113 million plays on YouTube Music, but “Goodbye My Lover” (#9 here, #1 in a couple places, not nearly as inescapable) is on 343M. I love how streaming inadvertantly distorts the past like this"
The typically superb new Todd in the Shadows video is a good excuse to have a Conversation about how Don't Worry Be Happy is a good piece of music if you ignore the stupid top line, and Fast Car is bad social realist melodrama like the worst songs on The Times They Are a'Changing
ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Piano in the Dark" by Brenda Russell
YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows
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November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The typically superb new Todd in the Shadows video is a good excuse to have a Conversation about how Don't Worry Be Happy is a good piece of music if you ignore the stupid top line, and Fast Car is bad social realist melodrama like the worst songs on The Times They Are a'Changing
When you're mean to America or women, this is who you're being mean to
Joan La Barbara - Les Oiseaux qui chantent dans ma tête
YouTube video by vox_ritualis
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November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
When you're mean to America or women, this is who you're being mean to
I wish Harold had lived to a robust 95 if only to give his opinion on Megan applying his beloved word "cognitive" to the rich morons he had to pretend to teach (he saw the whole ARC of mass higher ed, from Dewey Republican twits to temporary meritocracy to the incestuous top 20% monopoly after 1975)
Damn it's almost like there's been a 50-year long project by rightwing billionaires to convince people their lives suck because of the local associate professor of gender studies and not the wholesale pillaging of state and society
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I wish Harold had lived to a robust 95 if only to give his opinion on Megan applying his beloved word "cognitive" to the rich morons he had to pretend to teach (he saw the whole ARC of mass higher ed, from Dewey Republican twits to temporary meritocracy to the incestuous top 20% monopoly after 1975)
You all should read the piece but isn't that portrait invaluable, like Trump interviews from the '80s when he hadn't yet perfected the character and still used big words
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You all should read the piece but isn't that portrait invaluable, like Trump interviews from the '80s when he hadn't yet perfected the character and still used big words
The real sexual essentialism: identity politics for men is a non-starter, pleading to be included in something female, compare the successful misogynist 18th century leftists versus supposedly and to some extent really sexually egalitarian aristocrats - doctrinaire meritocrats
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The real sexual essentialism: identity politics for men is a non-starter, pleading to be included in something female, compare the successful misogynist 18th century leftists versus supposedly and to some extent really sexually egalitarian aristocrats - doctrinaire meritocrats
It's funny how neoliberalism - more specifically free trade and open borders - is perfectly designed to produce nativism, because when you give all the jobs to foreigners, the only argument for why someone should have a better life than the global average is "This is my country"
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It's funny how neoliberalism - more specifically free trade and open borders - is perfectly designed to produce nativism, because when you give all the jobs to foreigners, the only argument for why someone should have a better life than the global average is "This is my country"
Nietzsche said the problem with Jesus was he liked having women around but neglected to add that this was his innovation on the prophets of the Hebrew Bible
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Nietzsche said the problem with Jesus was he liked having women around but neglected to add that this was his innovation on the prophets of the Hebrew Bible
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We haven’t bothered training and hiring people to do these jobs so might as well see if AI and magical thinking can plug the gaps. Better than nothing right? Even if it does just make things up and provide a crap service to people.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We haven’t bothered training and hiring people to do these jobs so might as well see if AI and magical thinking can plug the gaps. Better than nothing right? Even if it does just make things up and provide a crap service to people.
Seeing a new ad for that office robot, this one about how it takes notes for you, I assume because they're scared of that study that said notes by hand are better, and grateful again to whatever genius gave them the name that inescapably brings to mind C|i¢kH01e
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Seeing a new ad for that office robot, this one about how it takes notes for you, I assume because they're scared of that study that said notes by hand are better, and grateful again to whatever genius gave them the name that inescapably brings to mind C|i¢kH01e
The thing about Spike going out of his way to insult Quentin, while praising Martin and Paul's barely veiled race war fantasy, is that it proves "I'm blacker than you" still stings, or more to the point, the implicit: You're even whiter than I am
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The thing about Spike going out of his way to insult Quentin, while praising Martin and Paul's barely veiled race war fantasy, is that it proves "I'm blacker than you" still stings, or more to the point, the implicit: You're even whiter than I am
"And that makes sense in a way. Not only is Wright a Brit but not a single minute of this film was even shot on American soil [...] Wright said lightheartedly in a recent interview, The idea of coming to Hollywood is now in big inverted commas because nothing shoots in Los Angeles"
Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.
The Running Man Trips Across the Starting Line
Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"And that makes sense in a way. Not only is Wright a Brit but not a single minute of this film was even shot on American soil [...] Wright said lightheartedly in a recent interview, The idea of coming to Hollywood is now in big inverted commas because nothing shoots in Los Angeles"
By the way remember when Douglas Adams' whimsical, harmless Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy that just so happened to originate at the dawn of neoliberalism in 1978 started by accusing the state of doing this kind of thing
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November 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
By the way remember when Douglas Adams' whimsical, harmless Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy that just so happened to originate at the dawn of neoliberalism in 1978 started by accusing the state of doing this kind of thing
I joked about how anti-cool-girl-ism would end in feminism disowning all their old "first woman to" heroes, and fully reverting to the sexual conformism that hated them in their own time, so God is punishing me by letting me see my prediction come true in the wild
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I joked about how anti-cool-girl-ism would end in feminism disowning all their old "first woman to" heroes, and fully reverting to the sexual conformism that hated them in their own time, so God is punishing me by letting me see my prediction come true in the wild
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November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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What is the most underrated instrument and why is it the bass flute
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What is the most underrated instrument and why is it the bass flute
He's not wrong as far as he goes but he'd still have to solve the problem that the strong dollar makes being a worthless i-banker more remunerative for Americans than learning how to do something useful, which of course is how we got here in the first place
Trump: he sent ice and removed them...idiot
We are not going to be successful if we don't allow people that invest billions of dollars in plant and equipment to bring a lot of their people from their country to get that plant open, operating and working.
I am sorry.
We are not going to be successful if we don't allow people that invest billions of dollars in plant and equipment to bring a lot of their people from their country to get that plant open, operating and working.
I am sorry.
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
He's not wrong as far as he goes but he'd still have to solve the problem that the strong dollar makes being a worthless i-banker more remunerative for Americans than learning how to do something useful, which of course is how we got here in the first place
The Enlightenment was stolen from the Iroquois and the Ottoman empire, but the Iroquois were matriarchal (this is good) anarcho-syndicalists and the Ottoman empire were pluralistic, multiracial, multiethnic and the Enlightenment invented Whiteness and The Patriarchy, this is a legacy of when Big Hea
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Enlightenment was stolen from the Iroquois and the Ottoman empire, but the Iroquois were matriarchal (this is good) anarcho-syndicalists and the Ottoman empire were pluralistic, multiracial, multiethnic and the Enlightenment invented Whiteness and The Patriarchy, this is a legacy of when Big Hea
"He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspiration goes"
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspiration goes"