Dr. Guy Incognito DDS

(You tax Billions Georg because he's going to destroy the planet in a Goldfinger-style scheme, not because you can fully fund social medicine out of his gold bars)

Orson Welles being interviewed circa 1968, leaning intently toward the interviewer from a comfy leather chair.

The rabbit has a personality! It's a trickster archetype. It tweaks our noses. The duck, the hunter: both foes to be made fools of. But the mouse is a blank slate, exuding a directionless bonhomie. This is why the mouse is an American icon, while the rabbit is relegated to Saturday re-runs.

Half a century later we're still trapped in the society-disemboweling ideological legacies of the 1970s tax revolts.

We're not getting a future again until we kill that garbage stone dead. Taxes need to go up, and not just at the top.

As a historian of the right, this is already the perpetual struggle. How do you properly convey that your society may well have been destroyed by some of the stupidest people/ideas/decisions imaginable?

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

It doesn't help that the USDA still loves talking about "family farms" even though it's defined purely based on ownership and most of the ones making most of the stuff are large mechanized businesses.

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The thing that makes me crazy is that we're rapidly closing in on a century of being a country built on industrial agriculture and yet people insist on imagining all their food being produced by some solitary old white man in overalls and a straw hat.

(The entire way up and down was French rugby fans recovering from yesterday with a morning hike).

A photograph of Arthur's Seat in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, taken from one of the lower peaks. It's very rocky with low grass and mud clinging to the slope.

What's "Arthur's Seat" in French?

Something that speaks to a sudden decline in our society is the amount of people I’ve seen lately approaching stop signs and then going right through them like “nope, don’t believe in this anymore!”

Photograph of the Wojtek the Bear Memorial in Edinburgh. Shows a life-sized bronze statue of Wojtek the Bear and some guy next to him. Behind him is a bronze relief showing Wojtek's war service.

Truly incredible experience this morning as my wife learned in real time that the Wojtek Memorial is for a bear, not a guy who liked bears.

why are you hiring a postdoc if generative AI can do everything you claim it can?

Nobody likes a frozen conflict, but it sure as hell beats an unfrozen one.

it is so funny how presidencies rise and fall on gasoline prices, which presidents often have very little real-world control over. except in this case where Donald Trump has smashed the "Double All Gas Prices Now" button via executive fiat. bold move cotton etc etc

Mister President, operation Hoovermaxxing is a go

I've finally had potted crab and all I will say is this:

I am now personally committed to eating every green crab in Boston harbor within the next decade.

President-for-Life Yair Netanyahu when it's President Nick Shirley's turn to do the traditional Republican invasion of a Middle Eastern country for no reason and Israel is the only one left

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

Worth noting that Japan using peace talks with Washington as cover for their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the reasons we were so fucking furious at them on December 8, 1941.

It's WHY FDR called it a Day of Infamy

the sheer murderous arrogance of these people is breathtaking

Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night

new term “post facto strike”, as in a strike you always wanted to do and find a justification for it after you’ve decided

prison for everyone involved in this illegal war of aggression

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

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