Itβs a fair use of the term, you see.
@akundaria
Seeking and learning to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno. Formerly: Chief Counsel to Sen. Klobuchar, Obama Administration official, Democratic campaign staffer. Speaking for no one but myself.
Itβs a fair use of the term, you see.
This thread is inviting a second British Invasion.
count zero interrupt
A true contribution to legal scholarship. (Welcome to ALI!)
Thatβs what you get for leaving madeleines out instead of cookies.
A proportional response is a dish best served cold?
Between the idea
and the reality,
between the motion
and the act
falls the Shadow.
Prickly Paradigm Press has been at it for years; they've published David Graeber, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Geoghegan, Rick Perlstein...
diarrhoea is worse than diarrhea
My Straussian reading is that the reference to building Rome sounds like a go-code for "integration from within."
A clear antecedent in βBobosβ-era David Brooks.
This is where the NYTβs engagement farming was always going to bring us.
I haven't even seen One Battle After Another yet but I do love how happy @thehighsign.bsky.social sounds talking about it on The Slate Culture Gabfest.
I can
I can
There is no winning at Trinitarian Calvinball, other than to not play.
A page from Daredevil: Born Again, in which Captain America says to a corrupt general, "I'm loyal to nothing, general--except the dream."
Panel from All-Star Superman 12: Superman fixing the heart of the sun.
Scene from Top 10: The Forty Niners, where "Officer Dark" blesses the reservoir to create holy water.
Scene from the Watchmen, where Dr. Manhattan tells Adrian Viedt, "Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."
#comicsdna
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
Who's up for an intellectual feast?
I, for one, am looking forward to subscribing to the independent publications The New New Yorker, Vanity Fairest, and HotWired.
Fiction works better at a lower resolution than history; GRRM is now more in Caro's territory than Herbert's.
Their audience engagement model absolutely requires them to publish that piece, which is why the Times is so far gone.
Lest anyone think this is a new obsession on the right, see Leon Kass's views (from 1994!) on licking ice cream cones.
So cyberpunk.
Right now, it might be nice to have birds that do not come home to roost.
It might be the only movie bad enough to distract you from the world beyond the screen.
Thanks, Ilya. You've written a fair amount that I disagree with over the years, but I've come to appreciate your commitment to your principles, and the principles that we share, in these times.
Good thing for Michael Anton that he only buys suits made in Hungary.
Is it time to create Serpentor?