For over 20 years I’ve been doing occasional late night drives-
Jersey Turnpike, GW Bridge, West Side Highway, Saw Mill- blasting Ryan Adams most of that time, and thinking of all the things I never took a chance on,
or all those that I just might yet.

Remember the viral fake story about hospitals turning away gunshot victims because they were treating people who ingested ivermectin they had stolen from farm supply shops?

Labeling for posterity, this is Dan Levy and Catherine O’Hara on the set of Schitt’s Creek

I’ve thought about some of the arguments I’ve seen, but, on balance, I’m still of the view that taking hostages is bad and rescuing hostages is good.

But why were hostages being held at a refugee camp?

Dads at the Westchester Park enjoying the cool weather and discussing the congestion tax and how if Hochul wins for nixing it, whatever.

Which squares the riddle of why many people feel they are in a better financial position than 4 years ago, but also justly think something is wrong with the economy.

Not shocking that American media companies that lose lots of money are being turned over to British executives who make lots of it.

Still funny four years later that lab leak was deemed the “racist theory” because progressives believed that the origin was in the disgusting hygiene and superstitious food practices of Chinese markets.

There is no difference in opinion journalism than in the market. Being right ahead of time (on Iraq, on Libya, on Ukraine, or on the lab leak) resulted only in costs, not rewards. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

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To any politician who arguably booked campaign-related expenses improperly… it’s actually a large universe, and Clinton and Obama camps both settled such claims.

We live in funny times when the populists are willing to show their face and the anti-populists hide.

My anti-anti- populist stance.

Anti-populists have the motive to secede from democratic accountability. And via their coordination through nominally independent institutions,
they believe they have the means to effect this outcome. Populist rabble present real but lesser

Everyone is bringing so many priors to judge this event, consequently the event itself feels fake. Impossible to judge.

In other words: “The actual evidence of experience can’t be accommodated to my reductionist theory; therefore, we should reject the evidence in favor of the theory.” Not only is the inference fallacious, but the resulting position is self-defeating if the reductionist theory was

When people who can't be bothered to learn Irish history import American college campus arguments to a different country with a very different experience. The majority of 'White people' in Ireland are of a Catholic background, they ain't 'WASPS'. For centuries the law in their