The kids in a big family don’t all grow up with the same parents. Even when they share the same mom and dad. Time has a way of working on people. Parents aren’t exempt. By the time the youngest arrives, Mom and Dad are changed. Sometimes softer. Sometimes harder. Sometimes both.

Great thread. Thanks for doing the work, Tyler

Might as well have asked two vegans to opine on the best cuts of beef. This is genuinely absurd.

You either die based or live long enough to become David French.

Now there is no excuse, pastors:

It’s like being in a Bob Ross painting that changes every few minutes. Sad that this vacation is coming to an end. One of the best we’ve ever had.

Whether it's Zohran Mamdani or Cindy here, hatred of white people is at the core of their movement.

Technically they always could, but the nothingburger known as the Johnson Amendment provided fig leaf excuse for cowardice. That fig leaf has now been removed.

They were almost at the finish line, even with all the superhero movie fatigue most people had a positive opinion of the new Superman Now he declares half the country isn’t American because immigrants are the real Americans All he had to do was shut up for a few more weeks

At some point the studios are going to stop putting mics in front of actors.

If the argument rests on “it’s discreet/easily accessible, numbs you out, and serves as a crutch in place of a stronger reliance on God” (I think it does), then I look forward to a similar article encouraging CT readers to quit SSRIs, antipsychotics, dtc

💯 It’s a big problem.

This is good. As someone who left family to pursue career, I regret depriving my kids of their grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and vice versa. Moving back was one of the best decisions we ever made.

Hey Grok, generate an image expressing something we should know that they don’t want you to say.

It’s just weird to me to make a pronouncement against churches endorsing candidates in general when there’s a rather obvious historical scenario where it would be entirely appropriate.

AI detectors are garbage and they’re only gonna get worse as LLMs get better. Expect more and more false positives. People are so worried about whether something is AI-generated that they’re missing the point entirely: quality is what counts.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Is the writing good?

Poetry used to be central to education, and people loved it because it was taught terribly. Kids memorized poems and chanted verses out loud. The words were alive: something to be experienced, performed, felt in the marrow of your bones. Then came the 1920s, when a group of

The casting of Francine Fak in The Bear is brilliant. She’s been on screen for 3 seconds and I already hate her. She knows what she did.

I had a script optioned by the actor who played Bud on The Cosby Show.