Adam Mazmanian

Gen X moral authority in full retreat

Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Poor Man's Friend

Sacred Steel is a thing people are talking about more and more open.spotify.com/track/1wYDd3...

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Celtics sleeper agent Marcus Smart

Never Let Me Go

I used “wet from the standpoint of water” this morning while driving kids to school in a downpour.

Silver conspicuously declines to make eye contact with Ballmer during that charity bit.

NEW: The government's nutrition website directs users to Grok.

After I asked about it, the site lost the name drop shown below, but users are still sent to Grok. This follows uproar over Grok's creation of millions of sexualized deepfakes of women and children.

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That was my favorite too

Cuff Your Hands Say Yeah

American Football Is Bigger Than Ever. It’s Also Dying. In ‘Football,’ Chuck Klosterman argues that the sport’s violence and made-for-TV pacing drove its success, but may now be pushing it toward irrelevance.

Chuck Klosterman wrote a book about football. I read it. I was not prepared for how much it made me think about my family. (Also he says football will be dead by 2065)

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It dates back at least to KRS-One

I followed 3 sports starter packs and now any game I watch on League Pass has multiple live threads going.

Substack club

I went looking for a screen cap of a copy of the Post used as a dead drop by Deep Throat. It’s a Thursday edition and it’s as fat as a NYT Sunday paper is today.

Great news! If you are nostalgic about the golden age of journalism, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN is $5 off at Amazon Prime.

Since we're talking about Helen of Troy, it's worth mentioning that her role in the Odyssey is basically a cameo in one of the Telemachus chapters. But her entrance is one of the wildest things in the whole story. The strangeness of it is captured well in the recent Emily Wilson translation.

To be fair, they didn’t want DNI anywhere near the agency from the jump.

<Forrest Gump voice> Co-lon-os-co-py

For the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize I hereby nominate the dude who let me turn left onto New Hampshire Ave from Ingraham St *and* the dude who declined to block the Missouri Ave/NH box allowing me to turn left and head west on Missouri. You are truly selfless humanitarians.

Two boules

I usually don’t share kid pics on the socials but sometimes they’re just so cute

So… Brides of Frankelstock?

The Witch king of Angmar needs a new agent.

Thanks to everyone posting sports starter packs!

Probably a reporter using an AI transcription app is to blame. Because the malapropism wasn’t incorrectly spelled no one caught it.

Screencap of AirPods settings

The three ways to parent

Lord of the Rings Meme. Top pane: Gimli has a Chicago Bears logo on his face and says, “I never thought I’d upvote a Packers post.” Second pane: Legolas had a Green Bay Packers logo on his face and says, “What about upvoting a Fuck ICE post?” Bottom pane: Gimli replies, “Aye, I could do that.”

I went down the football fan subreddits rabbit hole this morning, and I am utterly gobsmacked. 90+% of the content in the top threads are unabashed FUCK ICE posts, memes mocking the regime, and dudes saying how important it is to come together over something this significant.

Look here, Beelzebub, you don’t do it

*Indiana Jones voice* Forrestal…