Like the ol’ gem: “2000 years from now, people will not understand the difference between butt dial and booty call, and this is exactly why the Bible is hard to understand.”

Simply naming your kid “Mason” or “Tanner” is stolen valor. Occupational names must be earned.

I can think of only 2 campaign ads that can approach this level of charisma.

Abortions in Ireland rise to a record 10,852 - highest number since law changed buff.ly/d8CmmKK

Amazing how many years Maddow & co spent boosting the idea that Trump was a Russian asset due to kompromat held by a fellow named Vladimir Putin.

If you’ve ever wondered why all the neocons were ex-Trotskyists: the State Department was established two weeks after the storming of the Bastille, and Democracy has been in the business of permanent revolution ever since.

“L’extrême droite” is somewhere just to the right of Zohran Mamdani.

Finished this, it's so good man. More stuff like this, less "wokeism" discourse.

More confirmed cases of measles in a province than the much bigger, populous country where RFK Jr. is the Health Secretary.

It all seemed rehearsed: Where the officers Stood, in conspicuous cluster, As if arrayed upon a MAGA poster— And the cry “shooter down!” Came much too fast; who could have known That poor Crooks was alone?

Mexico’s fertility rate fell from a healthy, comfortably above-replacement level of 2.21 children per woman in 2014 to just 1.60 in 2023, lower than both the US and France. In just nine years. We don't really know what's coming.

Tonight is the symbolic end to peak wokeness. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. Hilaire Belloc, 27th July 1870 – 16th July 1953

A recurring feature of the modern world is that when societies become more irreligious bourgeois intellectuals lose all ability to connect with the working class and "socialism" becomes an elite ideology. There is a reason why Marxist revolutions happened in ... Russia and China!

Data centres consume 50% of Dublin’s electricity

“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. ‘What good will it do you,’ they asked, ‘to know this tune before you die?’” — from “Why Read the Classics?,” in The Uses of Literature (trans. Patrick Creagh)

Clash of the native groundcovers: the wild strawberry and brooklime have made contact. May the best plant win.

“In a sense, all political use of Nietzsche is a perversion of his teaching. Nevertheless, what he said was read by political men and inspired them. He is as little responsible for fascism as Rousseau is responsible for Jacobinism. This means, however, that he is as much

RIP Henry James, you would have loved posting about what the American mind cannot comprehend

The liberal woman with blue hair and piercings archetype is a hinterland phenomenon. They don’t exist in large, blue cities in a meaningful quantity. I assumed conservatives were making up a type of woman to get mad at, but go to a rural box store and you’ll see them.