yeah, this is excellent: "The cost structure of contemporary American life pushes us all to become grifters. Whether we succeed or fail, what is surely unaffordable is to be good people."

elite media can only ever be failed by its readership, never the other way around

they don't even use IBAN

"it emerges that people liked our chatbot more when it was obsequious"

he was also the "beneficiary" of the racial order of german south west africa—which was a haven for nazis even during the 1970s, when thiel was a friendless schoolboy there

basically tripled for me while covering less

"Joe and Eileen Bailey" would cross the street if they saw your flimsy papier-mâché ass shuffling into view

even better, the regime has been giddily slashing its language programs, including at DoD

as an atheist from a country that largely abandoned Catholicism because of the harm the RCC did, I have no stake in this fight. all I'm noting is that the religious right in the U.S. is primed for sectarian infighting.

also important to know that Catholicism is still viewed askance, at best, by most Protestant evangelicals in the U.S.

reducing consumption of single-use plastics is the exact kind of minor, wonkish good that a character like yglesias should be in favor of, if he had any principles beyond contrarianism

I love pikesville for any rye cocktails