“We are locked into a battle we did not seek and our timidity is keeping us on the defensive. It isn’t working. Our pessimism is self-fullfiling.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

I have a group chat in which the concept of The San Diego Ideas Festival has been a long-running inside joke, and all of us are coming to grips with how much funnier the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which actually exists, is.

I'm totally done with X/Twitter. I will still be doing my banking there, though.