At some point I really need to write about the trend of people, especially millennials, not being careerists or failing to stick to one job industry, and how it can leave us assed out of the job market entirely. I think this is a bigger thing than most people realize.

Nah, that's BS, bro. A bunch of people acted like Zelensky not wearing a suit - a change he said he made to reflect his status as a wartime leader - while visiting American presidents was the biggest insult to America imaginable. Now Lavrov shows up to what's supposed to be a

Seems like one gets a different answer depending on whether you look at individual months or aggregates for an entire time in office. Which is interesting, but addresses two separate questions.

Everyone sees the problem. Everyone wants something to be done. Most everyone wants the other guy to do it so that they can turn around and savage him/her.

If you are planning your retirement based in part on income from Social Security... don't.

One interesting aspect of Twitter is how fans of big account will just parrot their facially disingenuous responses. Not a Twitter-only phenomenon, but Twitter allows you to see how people will just desperately latch on to any argument that allows them to maintain their claim.

There is no alternative besides admitting that the public has lost faith in the ability of historians and museum directors to not insert personal politics into nonpartisan government institutions like the Smithsonian, so even a review of the work is cast this way.

The administration's position is that the growth is strong, jobs are plentiful, inflation is low, and Jerome Powell is a moron for not seeing the urgency of cutting interest rates.

While I’m pleased at the shift in attitude, I’m under no illusion about the cause or its ephemeral nature. Same as I am under no illusion regarding the nature of the support that Ukraine has had from other quarters.

While packing the courts has been a staple of leftist politics for a while, if they ever eventually succeed, they will have been assisted by the “ignore the courts!” crowd that has emerged on the right. nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opi…

More generally, I think issue polling in the Trump Era is basically pointless because it is impossible to know whether the respondents are responding (both pro and con) to the question or the man. And that is without discussing all the other problems with issue polling.