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A Spirit-soaked morning in Chicago, the dewfall is heavy. There is pneumatological ick on everything.

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

Enormous ratings opportunity for a live broadcast from the deck of an oil tanker, Brian.

Bibi asked.

Is there something more complicated about it?

I do not think it's stupid.

I have no opinion about it at all ... except that this seasonal caterwauling (which is not so self-evidently stupid in universal opinion that I heard it before we all had social media to amplify each tiny nit we want to pick) grates on me.

If you think Daylight Saving Time is bad, imagine taking a 60min flight to one timezone east of where you are!!

Quelle horreur!!! How do people do it??!?!?!?

Tbe humanities are the only way out of what we are living through.

reclaiming the joy of learning.

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Complaining about Daylight Savings Time is like complaining the time changed during your flight from Chicago to NYC. Or your drive from Chicago to NW Indiana.

It's an hour.

Toughen up. The world has bigger problems.

It sounds like moral panic and pearclutching when I say it because of an @npr.org tote but it's just an application of this idea—

"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."

...people to do vulgar things. Gentleness is discredited everywhere, even @npr.org.

Vulgarity often is expressed in language but language doesn't really tell us what vulgarity is.

We live in vulgar days because the sensibilities of others matter so little us we won't restrain ourselves with gentleness. Its abt how we treat each other, not words.

A vulgar people elects vulgar...

Conference goals

It's happening in high school classrooms?

High Schools Are Losing the Struggle to Block Pot—Even During Class Legalization makes marijuana culturally acceptable and easy to get; “it was a party in the bathroom.”

"Make it legal, it's harmless."

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By Tommy Siegel

The End Times are unfolding more strangely than I expected.

I've never been happier to be a theorist.

I remember an ignorant man interviewed on TV before Gulf War I who insisted saving "a few pennies at the pump" justified a war. That knuckledragging logic has pervaded our thinking abt Mideast policy for decades.

It may be abt to die a harsh death at the gas pump.

If only the executive branch knew all this was going to happen....

I feel the same way about AmGovt textbooks.

The truth (I'm not unhappy to say) is that the discipline needs to lean on theorists across the subfields if we want to find ways to speak meaningfully about AmGovt, IR/Comp, Policy.

Here's a health

The West and Western culture—whatever that is—is defined by plurality, being more than one thing.

It's too much for fools and xenophobes to understand. But it's true and it's important.

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We cut the hair.

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

The BAFTA thing is a situation that hasn't had much said about that's felt like it did service to complexity of what happened.

This does. No notes. 🎯

This is pretty smart.

It also is a GOP governor in 2026 saying it would be good to return to the pre-2011 immigration debate.

It would be. But his party and their leader made themselves the obstacle.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

The billionaires’ kids will pay no price. But American kids have already died for a war of vanity and choice. A war that will result in hardline leadership remaining in Iran and no meaningful impact on their nuclear program. A likely moral and strategic disaster.