https://www.reenum.com/ Latest posts from Encyclopedia Muneerica /posts/2026-04-26-struggle.html Very on point quote from Francis Fukuyama, from his book The End of History and the Last Man. I'm not normally in agreement with him, but this is a solid insight on why we've taken this fascist lurch in this country. But supposing the world has become “filled up”, so to speak, with liberal... Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-04-24-tolle.html Craig Calcaterra with the hilarious line about the Red Sox's Peyton Tolle. Cup of Coffee: April 24, 2026: Peyton Tolle is 23 years old. He's about a year older than my daughter who I sometimes still have to remind myself isn't a precocious middle schooler. Tolle, in contrast, looks like a 43 year... Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-04-12-altman.html The answer has always been no. Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?: “He’s unconstrained by truth,” the board member told us. “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The... Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-04-08-bucket.html Banger from the Spanish Prime Minister. Sánchez to Trump: Spain won’t applaud those who set the world on fire: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-04-04-carville.html I don't like James Carville's views. The Dems can't sit around and wait for the world to vote for them because there are no other alternative. But I wish I could say all these things to Trump's face. Carville to Trump: 'Listen to Me, You Fat Fck': “Listen to me, you fat fck,” said Carville to start... Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-16-secret-police.html This is an interesting look at who becomes part of a secret police. It's not true believers, but rather people who don't have career prospects in a legitimate military or police unit. They decide to join this alternative organization where the incentives are reversed: the worse they are at their... Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-16-unshoot.html Trump To World: Please Help Me Un-Shoot My Own Leg Off: None of this had to happen. By all available reporting and the variably coherent statements of various officials, nothing in particular precipitated this war other than power being in the hands of the wrong people in the U.S. and Israel and... Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-16-kings.html The Sacramento Kings Can't Even Lose On Purpose: Now that losing is exactly what they need to do, they have turned into an accidental juggernaut, proving in the process that the essence of incompetence in the NBA is not losing so much as it is a lack of cohesive vision. Amid all the anxiety about... Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-14-say-no.html This is a very insightful article about the author's father, a police officer. His dad could have become part of the policing machine, but chose to be a good person. As the son of a cop who took a costly stand, I can say to ICE agents: You can say no.: I felt certain that I had misheard her, that I... Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-11-baldwin.html This is a great line from James Baldwin. I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I'm forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-10-halfway.html Terminology, Clarity, and the Question of What Is the Left?: ... if you meet a fascist halfway you're halfway to being a fascist. Hannah Arendt famously said, "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but the people for whom the distinction... Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-10-horseman.html Rusty Foster with a couple of great lines in the most recent Today in Tabs. Purity Supreme: I do not avoid camels Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence. ... our never nude horseman of pestilence Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-10-shoes.html Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving 'All The Boys' Dress Shoes That Don't Fit Right: This is part of a wild story about how Trump is guessing people's shoe sizes incorrectly, and they're then wearing the huge shoes he orders for them. The Trump Administration Difference lies in the way that... Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-08-trump-world.html Visions of Life / Agents of Death: On Love Thy Neighbor and Love Thy Nature: Donald Trump's world is a dead and lonely world, a world in which everything is for sale and nothing really means anything and no one else matters. Earlier this year, he pressed Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina... Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-03-07-voting.html I was complaining about the government in 1996 to a friend. I was on a bus at my college. A woman sneered at me and said that I needed to vote if I wanted to run my mouth. I looked her in the eye and asked if her or her mom were willing to marry me ASAP. Until then, I’m the most qualified person to... Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-02-25-yokel.html Great way to describe James Comer. the State of the Union is— oh who gives a fuck, really: oh, please do fuck all the way off, you hog-romancin’ yokel. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-02-27-things-dont-like.html Hillary Clinton opening statement takes petty GOP to task: I don’t know, I don’t read stuff like that because it makes my brain do things I don’t want it to do, like think. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2025-02-25-yokel.html Great way to describe James Comer. the State of the Union is— oh who gives a fuck, really: oh, please do fuck all the way off, you hog-romancin’ yokel. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-02-25-mask.html From a forum I'm on: To paraphrase the Uptown Sinclair quote, It is difficult to get someone to understand something, when their self-image depends on their not understanding it. I heard some derivative of this quote recently: > Wear a mask long enough and it becomes your face. Play a role long... Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT /posts/2026-02-21-third-party.html Only way we get a 3rd party is if someone with Musk or Bezos level wealth decides to build a party infrastructure from the bottom up. Fund candidates at the local level, then go to the state level when there’s a critical mass of local office holders, then national once there’s a critical mass in... Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT