J.M. Starling
jamastar.bsky.social
J.M. Starling
@jamastar.bsky.social
If shaking hands really did that, Bill Clinton's hands would have fallen off in 1992.
August 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The old conservative anti-intellectualism was mostly targeted at those who drew from some aspect of Marxism or egalitarianism. The new anti-intellectualism is also targeted at people who keep rain gauges, develop measles vaccines, or teach that the Civil War had something to do with enslavement.
August 3, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Basically, what the sell in stores now as "Mexican Coke" will be renamed "Coke of America."
July 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I missed the headline that the U.S. became a Leninist command economy.
July 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
He got his merger, tax cuts, and a viable VP, what more does he need?
July 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
With a hip young Anderson Cooper!
July 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Ken Burns, The Civil War, every last episode, in AP history.
July 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Ted Cruz's profession was politics? "I am a baker, but don't ask me about my bread."
July 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Much of current American politics consists of the rich channeling working-class/lower middle-class anger entirely against the upper-middle class.
July 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Do terrorists run out of vacation and sick days by mid-September? What is the thinking on that timeline?
June 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
That sounds like a load of horseshit...
May 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
To be fair, that is the only grade a football coach in Alabama would know how to give.
April 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sort of hard to throw chairs off the roof with all them there pointy topped buildin's.
April 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I am old enough to remember when Republicans claimed the Democrats all wanted to force us to buy Teslas.
March 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Maybe they will take that wimpy electric battery rig out and drop a 87 Pontiac T-Bird engine into that baby.
March 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Reminds me of this primary source collection: www.siupress.com/978080932685... Harold Holzer included some of the hatemail Lincoln received.
The Lincoln Mailbag
As president, Abraham Lincoln received between two hundred and five hundred letters a day—correspondence from public officials, political allies, and milit...
www.siupress.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Good luck conquering Canada and colonizing Greenland if 22 degrees is too cold.
January 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
But the books still have jackets.
November 16, 2024 at 3:16 AM