Robert M Corbett
@robertmcorbett.bsky.social
Literate smartypants still hopeful about education and only once considered voting for a Republican. Only partisan when the other side is STUPID. Interests are popular music and film, art, aesthetics, novels, romanticism and ancient history not in order.
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Aimee Mann - Red Vines
YouTube video by Paulo A. Bueno
youtu.be
Basically Aimee's second best song. Which means it is great and a true fan of Aimee Mann is agnostic about what her best song is, but we all agree this is the second best.
Uh what was that song or Eddie Murphy riff that showed up in the late 70s or early 80s before western representative democracy got sold down the river by Thatcher and Reagan? Kill tha Land ... Yup the DKs did that song, Kill the Poor but that was Black Comedy from the Bay Area.
August 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Uh what was that song or Eddie Murphy riff that showed up in the late 70s or early 80s before western representative democracy got sold down the river by Thatcher and Reagan? Kill tha Land ... Yup the DKs did that song, Kill the Poor but that was Black Comedy from the Bay Area.
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This thread on how to understand housing costs and landlord squeals is brilliant
The problem, in other words, is entirely about debt, not the actual costs of providing rental housing. The problem is that building owners expected rents to rise faster than they turned out to, and took out bigger loans than the actual rent increases could justify.
August 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This thread on how to understand housing costs and landlord squeals is brilliant
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My neighborhood farmers market a couple of weeks ago. Just horrible.
August 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
My neighborhood farmers market a couple of weeks ago. Just horrible.
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I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
August 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
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I finally feel safe
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
August 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I finally feel safe
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Fox News falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
August 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Fox News falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
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Note to Kristi Noem:
It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.
It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.
August 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Note to Kristi Noem:
It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.
It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.
If REM is Joy Division but US southern and more Protestant Christian (white southern division) informed, then Sunny Day Real Estate is REM but grungy PNW, mysty Christian, but as sincere as the original band (JD) and the influence (REM). The throughline is sincerity and dare I day it, honesty.
August 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If REM is Joy Division but US southern and more Protestant Christian (white southern division) informed, then Sunny Day Real Estate is REM but grungy PNW, mysty Christian, but as sincere as the original band (JD) and the influence (REM). The throughline is sincerity and dare I day it, honesty.
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Apparently 20 years ago we wrote a headline about this website.
Search For Self Called Off After 38 Years
CHICAGO—The longtime search for self conducted by area man Andrew Speth was called off this week, the 38-year-old said Monday.
theonion.com
August 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Apparently 20 years ago we wrote a headline about this website.
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Governor Pritzker is right. No more blank checks for Netanyahu’s right-wing government and its military. No more blank checks for war crimes against Palestinians.
forward.com/fast-forward...
forward.com/fast-forward...
JB Pritzker: Blocking arms sales sends Israel ‘the right kind of message’
The Illinois Democrat said he backed the Senate bid to halt Israel arms sales to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over Gaza crisis.
forward.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Governor Pritzker is right. No more blank checks for Netanyahu’s right-wing government and its military. No more blank checks for war crimes against Palestinians.
forward.com/fast-forward...
forward.com/fast-forward...
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Correction. What he said! Strength for the struggle.
Not fucking yet.
America is finished, by the way.
July 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Correction. What he said! Strength for the struggle.
@thomaswolfe.bsky.social Looking homeward? I say this as I am a Tarheel thru-and-thru, though I have the only non-Chapel Hill degree out of the eight achieved by my family. MA Pittsburgh, AB Carolina (it is a Public Ivy!)!
August 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
@thomaswolfe.bsky.social Looking homeward? I say this as I am a Tarheel thru-and-thru, though I have the only non-Chapel Hill degree out of the eight achieved by my family. MA Pittsburgh, AB Carolina (it is a Public Ivy!)!
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Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley’s most dangerous power broker — a billionaire spy-master pulling strings from the shadows. He co-founded Palantir to put the world’s data under government surveillance, sunk early money into Facebook to shape its algorithms, and now bankrolls extremist politicians
August 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley’s most dangerous power broker — a billionaire spy-master pulling strings from the shadows. He co-founded Palantir to put the world’s data under government surveillance, sunk early money into Facebook to shape its algorithms, and now bankrolls extremist politicians
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I say this in so much love
You are trying to make sense of it and that’s the problem
You have to accept that Cuomo doesn’t want to be right. He wants to be humiliating and emasculating to a Brown man using the words and structures of a Black one
While respecting neither
You are trying to make sense of it and that’s the problem
You have to accept that Cuomo doesn’t want to be right. He wants to be humiliating and emasculating to a Brown man using the words and structures of a Black one
While respecting neither
August 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I say this in so much love
You are trying to make sense of it and that’s the problem
You have to accept that Cuomo doesn’t want to be right. He wants to be humiliating and emasculating to a Brown man using the words and structures of a Black one
While respecting neither
You are trying to make sense of it and that’s the problem
You have to accept that Cuomo doesn’t want to be right. He wants to be humiliating and emasculating to a Brown man using the words and structures of a Black one
While respecting neither
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well someone is having a stroke
August 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
well someone is having a stroke
I am not attending to Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans like I should but it does seem charming. And the ED theme is great, world-class! On the other hand, I aggressively dislike the OP song but I get who they were trying to reach. It's a Gundam for the Kids!
August 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I am not attending to Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans like I should but it does seem charming. And the ED theme is great, world-class! On the other hand, I aggressively dislike the OP song but I get who they were trying to reach. It's a Gundam for the Kids!
Isn't that clown a killer? #ionlyknowoperathroughseinfeldandbugsbunny
Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.
August 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Isn't that clown a killer? #ionlyknowoperathroughseinfeldandbugsbunny
Uggh
Fever lose Aari McDonald, Sydney Colson for rest of season reut.rs/4oHGKqK
Fever lose Aari McDonald, Sydney Colson for rest of season
The Indiana Fever lost guards Aari McDonald and Sydney Colson for the season due to injuries sustained in Thursday's 95-60 road loss against the Phoenix Mercury.
reut.rs
August 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Uggh
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Anyway, it is a very well-written so and one that is cosy and has worked on making the mysteries puzzles to be solved, and also self-conscious that it is very Christie in its take--the detective writes, not just solves, puzzles!--and set in Cambridge but not as obsessed about it like Morse honestly
August 3, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Anyway, it is a very well-written so and one that is cosy and has worked on making the mysteries puzzles to be solved, and also self-conscious that it is very Christie in its take--the detective writes, not just solves, puzzles!--and set in Cambridge but not as obsessed about it like Morse honestly
Pull the other one: It has bells on it. Mart was a great stylist but oh did he like to pontificate. You do not catch Pynchon, DeLillo, Barth, Barthelme or Coover doing that. Such a Realist Pose!
Stalin off anymore than do people--especially the British--do not love a good joke about Hitler. Last note: anytime a writer or intellectual says laughter or irony is dead because this happened, tell them to pull the other one: It has Bells on It. Peace.
August 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Pull the other one: It has bells on it. Mart was a great stylist but oh did he like to pontificate. You do not catch Pynchon, DeLillo, Barth, Barthelme or Coover doing that. Such a Realist Pose!
Gege is as good as mangaka get. Glad I have been in the audience for all of JJK in all its fierce but resilient tragedy executed with grace (and gravity) and good humor in spite of all the nonsense that surrounds us.
August 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Gege is as good as mangaka get. Glad I have been in the audience for all of JJK in all its fierce but resilient tragedy executed with grace (and gravity) and good humor in spite of all the nonsense that surrounds us.
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Opinion | I Helped Bury Stories About Trump. I Regret It.
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I note, incidentally, that this very deep concern about “erasing history” seems not to apply to purging books or classes that focus on unlovely aspects of that history. Just monuments honoring treason in defense of slavery.
August 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I note, incidentally, that this very deep concern about “erasing history” seems not to apply to purging books or classes that focus on unlovely aspects of that history. Just monuments honoring treason in defense of slavery.
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This is the most infuriatingly witless talking point. No history is “erased” by the removal of a monument. What he means is “we want to celebrate and honor racism,” but that sounds bad, so we’re supposed to pretend this illiterate goon has some deep interest in the study of history.
Hegseth on restoring a Confederate monument in Arlington cemetery: "We recognize our history. We don't erase it. We don't follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues ... we're proud of our history."
August 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is the most infuriatingly witless talking point. No history is “erased” by the removal of a monument. What he means is “we want to celebrate and honor racism,” but that sounds bad, so we’re supposed to pretend this illiterate goon has some deep interest in the study of history.
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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.