The bigger question is whether Trump as president would insist that we withdraw from the Global Methane Pledge. zurich.com/en/media/magaz…

I know a lot of people didn't think that REBEL MOON PART TWO could exceed the expectations set by PART ONE, but it has. PART TWO is much worse.

Inviting NYPD intervention to shut down a student protest at Columbia University--WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!

(Obit for one of the philosophers who has seriously shaped my thinking. Daniel Dennett, 1942-2024) This gift article from The New York Times can be read for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/04/19/boo…

Somehow the release of REBEL MOON PART TWO seems to have happened way too soon. Maybe if I turn the volume to zero and play TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT as a alternative soundtrack?

I felt so guilty about my amusement at the product recall of Tesla Cybertrucks that I asked for an emergency appointment with my psychiatrist. Just another case of Shoddy-->Freud.

Sure, the situations are similar, but the Kennedy family's take on RFKjr is at least marginally more sympathetic than New York City's take on Trump.

It's super-important that we decide what to think about a movie adaptation before we ever see the movie--ideally before it is even in production!

Look, I have very high regard for the novel SHOGUN, and take the 1980 miniseries to be as good a TV adaptation as 1980 could offer. But the penultimate episode of SHOGUN (2024) on Hulu had me weeping for half an hour.

What if social media discourage suicides instead of encouraging them? (Interpreting correlational data isn't for amateurs--not even amateurs with advanced degrees.) salon.com/2024/04/12/soc…

'Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man....' Now that I've quoted him, I'm only one degree of quotation from Francis Bacon.

Of course, Trump's spending a big chunk of his time in court during the election season will seem, in retrospect, like a brilliant four-dimensional-chess strategy for getting (technically) 'free media' when his legal expenses are burning through his donors' money. #LikeOJ

Say what you want about Florida Man--there are politicians in my home state of Texas who make Florida politicians look like statesmen.

This new TV adaptation of SHOGUN is so good it makes me want to read the book again. (I have read it only once: in advance of the first TV series, back in the 1970s.)

I am now more likely to check into the Overlook Hotel on my own dime, Gary Shteyngart, than to accept an all-but-alcohol-expenses-paid voyage to nowhere on the comically, tragically monolithic Icon of the Sea.

Maybe if they invite me to give the Godwin Lecture in Rotterdam.