Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore A few weeks ago, Jake Casella Brookins posted on BlueSky: "curmudgeonly thought this morning is that "anticipation" is bad for arts & art culture". Which, given how much the "most anticipated" genre has blown up over the last decade, with just about...
Year: 2026
Unsplash - Bernd Dittrich. The original image for this post was too confusing for some commenters. The no longer so peaceful peace president has announced the creation of the Board.
Here is a section of my forthcoming book The Triumph of Stupidity that, with the exception of the last sentence, has been drafted over the course of the last three.
This is complete lunacy. “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think...
This is the grave of Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth. Born in 1802 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wyeth went into the ice industry as a young man. It was more lucrative than you.
In Minnesota we apparently have another amendment to the Federalist Society Constitution: Thousands of people have been arrested during ICE operations in Minneapolis over the past two weeks. Multiple attorneys.
Greg Bovino certainly...has the aesthetics of his mission down: To borrow from Jimmy Breslin, Bovino is a small Italian man in search of a balcony.[image or embed]— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) Jan 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM You walk into Ross Dress For Less and say...
I wrote a short thread on Bluesky a week or so ago about mineral deposits, since they seem to loom so large in Donald Trump’s thinking. The Times (London) has.
Before we get to today's games: I think it could be reasonably argued that the Seahawks deciding to replace Pete Carroll with Mike Macdonald, give full personnel control to John.
Dave Weigel is getting a lot of flak for asking this question on Bluesky, but I think it's pretty important: With respect to the "run on," I think the answer is that Greenland is extremely unlikely to be a big deal in the 2028 election...
Evan Mandery's long piece about UATX, Bari Weiss's right-wing grift masquerading as some sort of new "non-ideological" university, is fascinating on several levels. Mandery is a professor at the John.
On January 18, 1913, teachers in New York City held the first meeting of what would become the Teachers League in New York. This would spur the creation of the.