going to bed here must feel like getting into the cockpit of a japanese fighting robot

Dodgeball; potentially any Kevin Smith movie

One of the more annoying thing about this has been all the people defending him on the basis of his "working class" origin when he is a textbook petit bourgeois; I thought Marxists were supposed to be sticklers about this kind of thing.

This is a brave take for a middle-aged man in a band.

Have you read any of the stuff he wrote before he switched to thinkfluencer nonfiction? Any good?

Interesting sidebar on his daily schedule, sounded a lot like the answer Jim Cramer gave. I'm always curious about the level of support these guys are getting from staff and personal/executive/research assistants. Maybe a good follow up for the next time the question comes up?

I was skeptical, but I've been impressed with how seriously she's taken campaigning, aside from a few goofy missteps like the Popeyes thing. I also think she's had a salutary effect in pushing Biss in the right direction on Palestine.

Gotta say I thought the complaints about Odd Lots soft-balling interviews were vastly overblown until this episode; can't believe you didn't nail him for confusing "Bartleby" with "Billy Budd".

If Mamdani wins (which I hope he does) he’ll have to govern by consensus and compromise to have a successful mayorship, basically guaranteeing these guys hate him in under 2 years.

like the Republic of Letters, it’s a cross national metaphysical community of our civilization’s most sophisticated minds

Not always true in my experience. Sometimes they are simply malicious and cruel.

More interesting to me is how that movie ends

Part of the issue is that right-wing alt media makes its ad and sponsorship money from hawking snake oil pills, dubious investments, multi-level marketing schemes, and other scams and frauds. You can't really have a viably left-inflected media that depends on fleecing its audience.

this is a real public service on behalf of people like me who are easily tempted by expensive gizmos

Did they ever figure out if racetams do anything

Long past time for Philadelphia and New York City to partition the territory of the so-called “New Jersey”

That, and minor league baseball inning breaks

Packer wrote an astonishing biography of Richard Holbrooke where he inadvertently built an airtight case against the man and then seemed totally oblivious to any of the conclusions that followed naturally from the narrative he himself wrote