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Yeah, does this mean we can finally build highways right across Greenwich Village and Midtown?
December 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Yeah, does this mean we can finally build highways right across Greenwich Village and Midtown?
Even Trump, when he's actually under oath and under penalty of perjury, becomes very down to earth. If you can see a video of him giving a deposition, it's a really weird contrast.
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Even Trump, when he's actually under oath and under penalty of perjury, becomes very down to earth. If you can see a video of him giving a deposition, it's a really weird contrast.
And that's what Tarantino has kept on doing. Inglorious Basterds is kind of a bad movie — at least, I didn't like the central concept at all, as a Jew — but it is remembered for one thing: that amazing opening scene. And there's one other super tense scene. It's just the rest that's, eh.
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
And that's what Tarantino has kept on doing. Inglorious Basterds is kind of a bad movie — at least, I didn't like the central concept at all, as a Jew — but it is remembered for one thing: that amazing opening scene. And there's one other super tense scene. It's just the rest that's, eh.
... but from there the movie devolved to schlock in terms of pseudo Eastern mysticism and over-the-top violence. Which is a big part of who Tarantino is, right?
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
... but from there the movie devolved to schlock in terms of pseudo Eastern mysticism and over-the-top violence. Which is a big part of who Tarantino is, right?
I wrote a review of KB1 at the time that started, "Quentin Tarantino makes bad movies really, really well." My takeaway was that the opening segment of Uma Thurman waking up in the hospital and having to fight for her life was super intense and human-scale and amazing ...
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I wrote a review of KB1 at the time that started, "Quentin Tarantino makes bad movies really, really well." My takeaway was that the opening segment of Uma Thurman waking up in the hospital and having to fight for her life was super intense and human-scale and amazing ...
I was thinking the same.
December 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I was thinking the same.
Mail-in voting was well under way when Barrett was confirmed, in fact. It was actually during the election, not before.
Brett Kavanaugh is also best known for liking beer.
Brett Kavanaugh is also best known for liking beer.
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Mail-in voting was well under way when Barrett was confirmed, in fact. It was actually during the election, not before.
Brett Kavanaugh is also best known for liking beer.
Brett Kavanaugh is also best known for liking beer.
I became a temporary Eagles fan in the Randall Cunningham era and would watch them whenever they were on here in the NY area. But my clearest memory of him was that his receivers were constantly dropping extremely catchable passes from him. If you swapped him and Joe Montana, he'd have been on top.
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I became a temporary Eagles fan in the Randall Cunningham era and would watch them whenever they were on here in the NY area. But my clearest memory of him was that his receivers were constantly dropping extremely catchable passes from him. If you swapped him and Joe Montana, he'd have been on top.
It doesn't matter, they're going to find a reason.
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It doesn't matter, they're going to find a reason.
I was shortlisted for the Booker Prize by my local Trader Joe's.
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I was shortlisted for the Booker Prize by my local Trader Joe's.
I saw the original Star Wars when I was 13, so I refuse to accept this.
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I saw the original Star Wars when I was 13, so I refuse to accept this.
On the contrary, you have to look at the words of the fourteenth amendment in the context of the blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah overruled.
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
On the contrary, you have to look at the words of the fourteenth amendment in the context of the blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah overruled.
I was just looking it up, and she was not AG yet. She was district attorney in Tampa. This was notoriously covered up by Alex Acosta, who was named to Trump's first cabinet and is now on the board of Newsmax.
(Bondi made her bones by dismissing the Trump U fraud case in Fla., I believe.)
(Bondi made her bones by dismissing the Trump U fraud case in Fla., I believe.)
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I was just looking it up, and she was not AG yet. She was district attorney in Tampa. This was notoriously covered up by Alex Acosta, who was named to Trump's first cabinet and is now on the board of Newsmax.
(Bondi made her bones by dismissing the Trump U fraud case in Fla., I believe.)
(Bondi made her bones by dismissing the Trump U fraud case in Fla., I believe.)
I was just looking it up, and she was not AG yet. She was district attorney in Tampa. This was notoriously covered up by Alex Acosta, who was named to Trump's first cabinet and is now on the board of Newsmax.
(Bondi made her bones by dismissing the Trump U fraud case in Fla., I believe.)
(Bondi made her bones by dismissing the Trump U fraud case in Fla., I believe.)
December 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I was just looking it up, and she was not AG yet. She was district attorney in Tampa. This was notoriously covered up by Alex Acosta, who was named to Trump's first cabinet and is now on the board of Newsmax.
(Bondi made her bones by dismissing the Trump U fraud case in Fla., I believe.)
(Bondi made her bones by dismissing the Trump U fraud case in Fla., I believe.)
I don't know how I've never heard that before. Gold star.
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I don't know how I've never heard that before. Gold star.
"In the opinion of the court: Nah. Signed, unsigned."
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"In the opinion of the court: Nah. Signed, unsigned."
I wonder how it turns out!
December 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I wonder how it turns out!
Side note: I looked up Will Cain on Wikipedia, and there was a surprisingly extensive coverage of his collegiate athletic career, which I can summarize as: I wasn't good at water polo, and I couldn't make the team at USC, so I went to Pepperdine, where I was the worst player but I did get one goal.
Will Cain - Wikipedia
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December 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Side note: I looked up Will Cain on Wikipedia, and there was a surprisingly extensive coverage of his collegiate athletic career, which I can summarize as: I wasn't good at water polo, and I couldn't make the team at USC, so I went to Pepperdine, where I was the worst player but I did get one goal.
Done. (And passed on to someone else who would be interested.) Good luck to them!
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Done. (And passed on to someone else who would be interested.) Good luck to them!
And Mearsheimer focuses on Tucker Carlson, which is interesting. Support for Israel was bipartisan and unquestioned for decades until Netanyahu visibly aligned Israel with the American right, against Obama. And that has stayed solid, but what if Tucker Carlson has fractured the right now?
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
And Mearsheimer focuses on Tucker Carlson, which is interesting. Support for Israel was bipartisan and unquestioned for decades until Netanyahu visibly aligned Israel with the American right, against Obama. And that has stayed solid, but what if Tucker Carlson has fractured the right now?
One thing I would add is, Israel actually lost the world with its disproportionate bombing of Gaza in 2014. (That wasn't even the first one, but it was the one that fully turned the world and the first one covered in US media.) So from day one of the present onslaught, it had strong opposition.
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
One thing I would add is, Israel actually lost the world with its disproportionate bombing of Gaza in 2014. (That wasn't even the first one, but it was the one that fully turned the world and the first one covered in US media.) So from day one of the present onslaught, it had strong opposition.
However, I've found myself walking along highways a few times and they're still covered in trash. You just don't see it when you're driving. People are pigs.
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
However, I've found myself walking along highways a few times and they're still covered in trash. You just don't see it when you're driving. People are pigs.
I've only seen a half-dozen of these, but I'm glad you included "Souleymane's Story," which is the best movie I've seen this year.
It seems like we've hit peak garbage in the movie industry — the whole middle of the year there was nothing worth seeing in theaters. I saw Eddington, which, blech.
It seems like we've hit peak garbage in the movie industry — the whole middle of the year there was nothing worth seeing in theaters. I saw Eddington, which, blech.
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I've only seen a half-dozen of these, but I'm glad you included "Souleymane's Story," which is the best movie I've seen this year.
It seems like we've hit peak garbage in the movie industry — the whole middle of the year there was nothing worth seeing in theaters. I saw Eddington, which, blech.
It seems like we've hit peak garbage in the movie industry — the whole middle of the year there was nothing worth seeing in theaters. I saw Eddington, which, blech.
That was Congress's clear intent in the Voting Rights Act.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
That was Congress's clear intent in the Voting Rights Act.