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This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey
November 20, 2024 at 9:41 AM
"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Pulitzer Prize photo right here.
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Pulitzer Prize photo right here.
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“Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want—like a LAWYER when you’re eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE.” In New Yorker Humor, job postings for ICE.
ICE Job Postings
ICE wants YOU to put your LEFT foot in then put your LEFT foot out then DO the hokeypokey and TURN IN your brother-in-law whom YOU didn’t realize THIS would AFFECT.
www.newyorker.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want—like a LAWYER when you’re eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE.” In New Yorker Humor, job postings for ICE.
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I’m pretty much constantly angry about how the global media ecosystem supercharged the current wave of fascism and of course I can’t help but think of Al Swearengen talking about the telegraph coming to Deadwood
September 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I’m pretty much constantly angry about how the global media ecosystem supercharged the current wave of fascism and of course I can’t help but think of Al Swearengen talking about the telegraph coming to Deadwood
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Trump nominated a guy to the bench. Everyone said he was a lazy ideologue with bad temperament and the usual suspects dismissed that as liberal rubbish. Anyway he just issued a dissent from a Ninth Circuit opinion in the form of a YouTube video with Old Spice ads in which he waves guns around.
March 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Trump nominated a guy to the bench. Everyone said he was a lazy ideologue with bad temperament and the usual suspects dismissed that as liberal rubbish. Anyway he just issued a dissent from a Ninth Circuit opinion in the form of a YouTube video with Old Spice ads in which he waves guns around.
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My review of a new short book edited by Michael Lewis that profiles some of the nation’s outstanding and fascinating federal employees. As I wrote in the @washingtonpost.com review, “Perhaps never before has there been a book better timed or more urgent.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/who-is-gov...
Who is Government?
Celebrating the people who make the federal bureaucracy work
www.doomsdayscenario.co
March 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My review of a new short book edited by Michael Lewis that profiles some of the nation’s outstanding and fascinating federal employees. As I wrote in the @washingtonpost.com review, “Perhaps never before has there been a book better timed or more urgent.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/who-is-gov...