Nathanmoser
@nathanmoser.bsky.social
But it does affect people. Often kids are presented with “you have to read a book and write a report on it, go pick one out of the library.” That’s how I bumped into Upton Sinclair‘s “The Jungle,” and that’s how my daughter found books that she otherwise wouldn’t have read that broadened her world.
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
But it does affect people. Often kids are presented with “you have to read a book and write a report on it, go pick one out of the library.” That’s how I bumped into Upton Sinclair‘s “The Jungle,” and that’s how my daughter found books that she otherwise wouldn’t have read that broadened her world.
Granted, this doesn’t affect people as directly, broadly, or deeply as plucking random brown-skinned workers off the streets for indefinite detention, or instructing our military to use American cities for target practice.
October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Granted, this doesn’t affect people as directly, broadly, or deeply as plucking random brown-skinned workers off the streets for indefinite detention, or instructing our military to use American cities for target practice.
There are an unfortunate number of Americans who think a second civil war would be a good thing and easily won, and those people are deeply stupid. Talk to an Iraq War vet who spent any time outside the 'green zone', and they will tell you that you really do not want that shit in your home country.
September 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There are an unfortunate number of Americans who think a second civil war would be a good thing and easily won, and those people are deeply stupid. Talk to an Iraq War vet who spent any time outside the 'green zone', and they will tell you that you really do not want that shit in your home country.
Nothing that I'm aware of him having said justifies murder, and that murder was terrorism. Terrorism kills innocents caught in the crossfire, and precipitates civil wars.
September 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Nothing that I'm aware of him having said justifies murder, and that murder was terrorism. Terrorism kills innocents caught in the crossfire, and precipitates civil wars.
He'd said plenty of other things that lead me to conclude that he was not a good person. There are people shot dead every day whose deaths are a much greater loss to the world.
September 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
He'd said plenty of other things that lead me to conclude that he was not a good person. There are people shot dead every day whose deaths are a much greater loss to the world.
I think of what his children and wife must be going through tonight, and it fills me with sadness. As for Kirk himself, I admittedly don't feel a whole lot.
September 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I think of what his children and wife must be going through tonight, and it fills me with sadness. As for Kirk himself, I admittedly don't feel a whole lot.
Not a lot of difference ethically or morally between that and RFK Jr et al trying to cull the herd by limiting access to vaccines, though.
September 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Not a lot of difference ethically or morally between that and RFK Jr et al trying to cull the herd by limiting access to vaccines, though.
True, and if en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:... is any guide, the organ donors likely wouldn’t be consensual.
Bodies: The Exhibition - Wikipedia
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September 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
True, and if en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodies:... is any guide, the organ donors likely wouldn’t be consensual.
Got a source for that? Or should I treat it like a totally not fake photo of Jesus and Sasquatch high fiving?
September 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Got a source for that? Or should I treat it like a totally not fake photo of Jesus and Sasquatch high fiving?
Thank you for your fascinating perspective
July 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thank you for your fascinating perspective
Just ok? I’d say wargaming in a park and hassling kids and homeless people, instead of helping newly-made homeless flood victims, is perfectly on brand for the Trump chumps!
July 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Just ok? I’d say wargaming in a park and hassling kids and homeless people, instead of helping newly-made homeless flood victims, is perfectly on brand for the Trump chumps!
For perspective, Alvarado is 160 miles from us.
July 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
For perspective, Alvarado is 160 miles from us.
“Is jus’ whut ah herd!”
And what welfare is it exactly that they’re on according to your mom?
And what welfare is it exactly that they’re on according to your mom?
July 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
“Is jus’ whut ah herd!”
And what welfare is it exactly that they’re on according to your mom?
And what welfare is it exactly that they’re on according to your mom?
That’s really not much better, if it’s to be believed, given that’s its legal in the places he’d said he’d smoked it. But thanks for alerting us to the spin.
June 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
That’s really not much better, if it’s to be believed, given that’s its legal in the places he’d said he’d smoked it. But thanks for alerting us to the spin.
Schrödinger’s cat is in a half-killed, half-bombed state until you tell the joke.
June 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Schrödinger’s cat is in a half-killed, half-bombed state until you tell the joke.
It’s amazing that none of them have been shot and killed yet.
June 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It’s amazing that none of them have been shot and killed yet.
Yup, and Jackson wrote the decision. Always disappointing when “my side” doesn’t read the article and acts just like the mob mentality Trump chump MAGAts.
June 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Yup, and Jackson wrote the decision. Always disappointing when “my side” doesn’t read the article and acts just like the mob mentality Trump chump MAGAts.
True for CA and NY, but not for Texas.
April 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
True for CA and NY, but not for Texas.
If you’re in the Austin area, his Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop is a short drive away, and is the 2nd most interesting and “cool vibes” bookstore I’ve ever been in, Powell’s Books in Portland being the 1st.
April 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you’re in the Austin area, his Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop is a short drive away, and is the 2nd most interesting and “cool vibes” bookstore I’ve ever been in, Powell’s Books in Portland being the 1st.
I’ve read a few of Ryan Holiday’s books. Sometimes verges on “broicism,” but it’s a good introduction for someone like me who was always more on the Epicurean side. In any case, he’s clearly a “put your money where your mouth is” kind of person, and I respect that. This editorial is a case in point.
April 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’ve read a few of Ryan Holiday’s books. Sometimes verges on “broicism,” but it’s a good introduction for someone like me who was always more on the Epicurean side. In any case, he’s clearly a “put your money where your mouth is” kind of person, and I respect that. This editorial is a case in point.