Scott Wilson
@scottwilsonkc.bsky.social
Editor, writer. Views mine. I know who needs to hear this. Kansas City, Missouri
Several of mine have been claimed by others, so these too….
October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Several of mine have been claimed by others, so these too….
The way I say “nope!” out loud and close the tab when one of these announces itself as “read by an automated voice.”
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The way I say “nope!” out loud and close the tab when one of these announces itself as “read by an automated voice.”
Bus looks good for 79.
August 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Bus looks good for 79.
Immortalized in Gay Talese’s “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.”
July 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Immortalized in Gay Talese’s “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.”
What if the threat isn’t injunctions or their lack but rather the plain fact that this court supermajority is brazenly and spectacularly lawless?
June 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What if the threat isn’t injunctions or their lack but rather the plain fact that this court supermajority is brazenly and spectacularly lawless?
Got it, great, thanks. What's the second-best option?
June 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Got it, great, thanks. What's the second-best option?
Nobody Atlantics harder than the Atlantic.
June 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nobody Atlantics harder than the Atlantic.
Did a thing yesterday (my 12th Hospital Hill and 20th half-marathon).
June 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Did a thing yesterday (my 12th Hospital Hill and 20th half-marathon).
Just tried this and got an unreassuring variation.
May 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Just tried this and got an unreassuring variation.
Love the uniquely 21st-century indignity of cutting my own auto insurance "card" out of a tissue-thin piece of printer paper after almost 40 years of same-company patronage.
May 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Love the uniquely 21st-century indignity of cutting my own auto insurance "card" out of a tissue-thin piece of printer paper after almost 40 years of same-company patronage.
Thanks to Costco, I am really leveling up my wellbeing with these.
May 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Thanks to Costco, I am really leveling up my wellbeing with these.
Thanks, NYT, for this smug, patronizing headline.
May 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Thanks, NYT, for this smug, patronizing headline.
If my head were as full of antimatter as Douthat's, I would object to this dipshit headline. Said fullness would also, I hope, prevent me from being seen to wear these enormous, rube-ifying headphones.
April 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
If my head were as full of antimatter as Douthat's, I would object to this dipshit headline. Said fullness would also, I hope, prevent me from being seen to wear these enormous, rube-ifying headphones.
Someone on my Goodreads timeline posted an appreciation of Henry Felsen's teen classic Hot Rod, and it turns out the man looked like if Daniel Craig played Mr. Roper.
April 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Someone on my Goodreads timeline posted an appreciation of Henry Felsen's teen classic Hot Rod, and it turns out the man looked like if Daniel Craig played Mr. Roper.
No one "left" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "for dead." It was murdered.
March 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
No one "left" the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "for dead." It was murdered.
JFC, can't you pick just one metaphor/substance for your latest jaunty headline about authoritarianism?
March 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
JFC, can't you pick just one metaphor/substance for your latest jaunty headline about authoritarianism?
Blocked, self-flagellating, inspiration-challenged early Sesame Street figure Don Music has always been the Muppet for me.
February 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Blocked, self-flagellating, inspiration-challenged early Sesame Street figure Don Music has always been the Muppet for me.
Some of us remember THE BLACK HOLE.
February 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Some of us remember THE BLACK HOLE.
A wife who loves you doesn’t let you leave the house like this.
February 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
A wife who loves you doesn’t let you leave the house like this.
I, an idiot, have improvised pasta e ceci with what was on hand.
February 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I, an idiot, have improvised pasta e ceci with what was on hand.
Envisioning a 2025 remake of THE PALM BEACH STORY in which the remarriage plot is updated so that the husband and wife aren't broke but resolve to find new spouses in Europe to get citizenship abroad.
February 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Envisioning a 2025 remake of THE PALM BEACH STORY in which the remarriage plot is updated so that the husband and wife aren't broke but resolve to find new spouses in Europe to get citizenship abroad.
I have the book that goes with this. It’s powerful.
February 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I have the book that goes with this. It’s powerful.
This kind of thing is why I always read the letters page, especially in @londonreview.bsky.social.
February 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This kind of thing is why I always read the letters page, especially in @londonreview.bsky.social.