Ugh. The pea harvest smells SOOO BAD.

Just a great piece from Yuval Levin on the aftermath of the election. thedispatch.com/article/what-t…

"Not everything fits into a cost-benefit analysis. Just because something is difficult to measure or quantify does not mean it is not valuable!" This is particularly key in the public sector, where 'benefits' are not easily measurable (think education, care, service). (7/n)

Good advice as always from Pippa. Following it now.

While Jaguar is pushing debauchery, Volvo just put out the most moving, pro-family, pro-life car ad of all time. This is the way.

In other words, the House Ethics Committee report really is bad.

A border collie gently guiding ducklings into a puddle

Why Read The Bible In Hebrew? So, remember how Joseph gets sold into slavery in Egypt and eventually rises to become Pharaoh's second-in-command? Well...why doesn't Joseph ever write home to his father to tell him that he's alive? A thread (for non-Hebrew readers too!) 🧵1

Listen. I spent thousands of dollars and years of my life to earn the right to wear a tam. When it comes, I won't let a little thing like being inside stop me from wearing it!

Praying “Lord…lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil” means praying the Lord would thwart any & all plans (from any leader) to do injustice or harm. We should pray that for all US presidents, perhaps especially if they’ve made “retribution” part of their platform.

We (and by that I mean, my wife) definitely noticed

What a time to be alive 🤔 Tom Fishburne

Also "thoughtful"

I'm just happy knowing that there's at least one other person in the world that gets every word of this sentence: "Now, he is halfway backslidden,.. smoking real cigarettes and taking the sharks for Chick fil-A gift cards in high stakes back room sword drills."

The hill I will die on is that "efficiency" is coded masculine b/c in the modern west it is inherently linked to the creation of capital which itself is at odds w/ the embodied female capacity for bearing children, motherhood, & family life. Here I stand.

TBH, it kinda makes more sense for the gulf surrounded by North, South, and Central America to be called the Gulf of America.

Keeping watch

"not unimportant, but survivable" - Esau McCaulley