John Cluverius

i still love nonfiction and i pre-ordered this from my local super hype for it

god forbid a woman have hobbies

not you know a "look at the hypocrisy" person, just a general "when did people stop having shame"

i don't know which journalist or writer is going to become a full-time left-wing moral scold but I think you have at least a year of weekly columns in today's society

yeah and that's 344 jobs lost right there!

really am curious which wars were the politically correct wars

RFK Jr. Just Found Out How to Start a Revolt in Boston: Diss Dunkin’ The health secretary questioned the healthiness of the chain’s iced coffee. It didn’t go over well in Massachusetts.

in which i get to weigh in on my two favorite topics: RFK Jr and Dunkin'

LET THEM FIGHT

What about Clarence Thomas?

But you know, only while the cabin door is closed.

You know what? I would prefer a norms based order to a rules based order but I also think flight attendants should have qualified immunity.

if i were chatterton, not sure i would call on anyone to “introspect” if the most noteworthy things i have ever produced were, in this order: a story about how rap made me hit my girlfriend and an anecdote over how i couldn’t stop ogling a actress’s breasts. look in the mirror my dude.

Fetterman is basically a reactionary now: there is no real effort to explain why Mullin - a buffoon who spent the week insisting we are not at war with Iran - is qualified. Trump nominated Mullin, and that’s good enough for him.

The Iran War’s Most Precious Commodity Isn’t Oil The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas. What the American spy agency has in mind is far more prosaic: drinking water. Don’t underes...

Food is not the most immediate concern, water is.

A few strategic bombings by Iran on desalination plants, and most of Saudia Arabia will literally die of thirst within a week

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Calling states "red" and "blue" based on presidential results not only ignores the partisanship of other statewide votes but also ignores how lousy those descriptors are at the presidential level.
www.ms.now/opinion/texa...

nypost headline should be
NOEM DE-POSED

this seems like a typical reaction to me!

there's a bad culture out there that first-gen college students need to be taught how to order in a restaurant and use salad forks when really we need more classes teaching legacy admits how to get their administrator to unfuck their expense report.

if you work at any middle to large bureaucracy there is a group of underpaid women who secretly run everything. your career success will be affected by what they say about you over whatever social activity they have (bridge, golf, mahjong, pickleball, whatever).

There was a clatch of "ruler ladies" at UNC. Other people's LaTeX code, even perfectly copied, would not get by the Ruler Ladies. Everything had to be tweaked. This is where we learned how bureaucratic institutions can sometimes create problems in order to justify their existence.

I have never wanted a Dunkin iced more than I want neutralizing antibodies

a man with his hand on his chin looks surprised ALT: a man with his hand on his chin looks surprised

omg

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

Finally got to @gelliottmorris.com's piece this week on how poll question wording dramatically affects responses. It's excellent. This is classic stuff in the political behavior subfield of poli sci, but we don't hear enough about it in punditry.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

I would honestly prefer he go on all these weird fast food side quests instead of having all his freakshow followers dismantle the entire public health infrastructure

LIVE SOON: What the polls say about the U.S.-Iran war Starting Mar 5 at 2:00 PM EST

We are getting a lot of polls on the US war in Iran now that pollsters have had time to be in the field. There is a general consensus across surveys, but some notable disagreement to unpack. We will do that tomorrow in the live Strength In Numbers podcast:

open.substack.com/live-stream/...

yes, to win he must run on destroying the senate from within

education "reform"

I have not! Tell me more!
(also two weeks ago I got to tour the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at Houston, which apparently the same building where Ken Mattingly found the four amps they needed)

just remembered over the weekend how hard Apollo 13 slaps and also how many people in my friend group had it on vhs.

bro the target whey protein is wheyyyy cheaper

one thing though...with rare exceptions the longer you're in a war the less popular it becomes.