"McMahon clearly sized this one up as a gimme since Mullin even phrased the query in folksy grammar: 'What was we ranked nationally, in reading and math, in 1979?'
McMahon answered as if in commiseration: 'We were very, very low on the totem pole.'
No we wasn’t."
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"In this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." May include: retching, staggering, spitting blood, and rampaging after fellow humans. A Zombie Apocalypse Infected by Brexit, the Manosphere and Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/m...
Grok the Police: “New Detroit is the accelerationist's ‘defund the police’: degrading public services to build support for privatization. The DOGE-like OCP runs the cops in order to build Delta City/Trump Gaza.” Did RoboCop see the future? I buy that for a dollar! open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/...
New essay: Recline of the West. "How much paranoia had the new regime instilled? When E. asked a thickly German-accented RV renter where he was from, he looked at her for several seconds before answering: “Con-NECT-i-kut.” (Yeah, *sure* you are.)" norrisc.substack.com/p/recline-of...
That whole album’s a stealth tearjerker from the first needle drop
Art of the Con. 2! Looking under DOGE's hood with help from Maria Konnikova and other experts on fraud, scams, etc. open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/...
Come luxuriate with me in the rough-and-tumble prose of novelist/screenwriter Richard Price: author of the recent Lazarus Man, immersion reporter, dialogue pimp supreme, Duke of New York A-Number-One! open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/...
I.Q. and you: "Is Hesgeth as scientifically dumb as he sounds, looks, and acts? Is Elon Musk the genius some say he is? Does Donald Trump have “great genes” and a “fertile brain"? Aren't we well past the point where we talk about factory settings?" open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/...
Someone with “a deep-seated need to be recognized as funny" tries to fulfill it with wisecracks too juvenile to be dad jokes and too leaden to be juvenile (führer jokes?). Could this be the genesis of the villain threatening humanity with his horsey chortle? open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/...
In Plain Sight: what it looks like when an American shows up and does his job. open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/...
Funnyman Musk. New essay that floats terms for the governance (auto-cray-cray) and humor (führer jokes) among other attractions. Come thru! /open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/p/funnyman-musk? r=779k5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Why You Might Suddenly Be Following Trump on Instagram and Facebook www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/t... “One possible explanation: Four years between administrations is a long time and people can forget what accounts they signed up to follow.” C’mon.
It’s not just the gesture. all the accompanying body language says what it is: a nazi salute with stank on it. that WaPo writer is just lying.
New essay: what the world needs now is Run the Jewels. open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/...
Read the Room. Jim Gaffigan looks into the abyss. open.substack.com/pub/norrisc/...
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New essay on the Animal House Administration: “We saw early indications in Tucker Carlson’s merging of Father Coughlin content with the Waspy insouciance of Delta’s chapter president Eric “Otter” Stratton…”
The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg is also really clear about that comparison. Bracing to see as an American
See: “beat sweetener”
From “Carriage and Automobile painting”?
Yes
Feels recorded for this moment, from the first wordless vocals on track 1 (love’s in need) to end.
