The yellow brick road to home ownership
R. Eric Thomas described the various characters involved in buying or selling a home perfectly. Oz: Here for It, #363: Buying a home, in my experience, is like a Wizard of Oz adventure where every...
Degenerate gentry
David Roth has a way with words when he describes the core MAGAs. Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now: Lots of awful people are like...
Modern Slopcore
McMansion Hell is always good for a few laughs. This recent article breaks down the new stlye preferred by unimaginative tech bros. mcmodernslopcore: Much fascinates me about these houses, however...
Howling and shrieking
Great line about the FTX balance sheet when Sam Bankman-Fried was first arrested. FTX’s Balance Sheet Was Bad: ... an Excel file full of the howling of ghosts and the shrieking of tortured souls.
Zlatan not hiding it
I love how openly disdainful of Alexi Lalas his co-commentators are.. A banger from Zlatan: “Everybody is getting a little bit nervous except for me and Thierry Henry, we’re used to the big stage.”...
No one will honor him
Jon Ossoff speaking the truth: “He’s trying to put his face on the money. Did you see that? He’s building a monument to himself. But see, Atlanta, he’s doing these things now because no one will...
Walsh promise
We can't let DOGE get whitewashed like The January 6 Insurrection. This post on Bluesky gives me hope that people won't let that happen: I'm literally going to law school and crushing these fucking...
David Simon on AI writing
In this interview, David Simon made his thoughts on using AI in the creative process very clear. SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you...
When you're in the middle of it
This was a good quote from a reader on Electoral-vote.com: I remind myself that things always seem bleakest when you are in the middle of them, but the arc of history, IMO, is positive and steadily...
Expand the Supreme Court
I think we might be thinking too small on Supreme Court expansion. With the end of Chevron deference, it's obvious the Supreme Court wants to put its stamp on every regulation possible. I've seen...
Why does MAGA worship Trump?
Why MAGA buys Trump's perfect health lie: For a long time, the GOP has been a cult just waiting for its leader. Conservatism often carries an authoritarian bent... The right is regressive both...
Kansas City helped nab R. Kelly
It's not well known, but shadowy forces in Kansas City were the hidden lever in the R. Kelly pee tape trial. Day 2: The "Little Man Defense" and the Case Against Sparkle: Bennie Lee Edwards Sr., the...
It'll get better
I wanted to make a friend of mine feel better, so sent him these messages via text: Dude. I know you’re down right now. For the majority of my life, things were pretty terrible. I didn’t really have...
DNC Autopsy
This was an interesting read. I'm not sure whether all the conclusions in Part 3, but this is much more accountability than anyone in the DNC has shown thus far. We need more of this. Here’s What I...
Emptiness of success
I played one season of fantasy hockey, and ended up with a team of future Hall of Famers entirely by accident. That's where I learned most of what I know. I was crushing the league and getting more...