Loved Bourdain! I’m going to have a great time thinking about what he would have said about all this. There really is no replacing him.
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Loved Bourdain! I’m going to have a great time thinking about what he would have said about all this. There really is no replacing him.
It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”
Really a great podcast. Lot of illumination on how to think about what's going on and ideas to help you think through what's happening and how to think about it clearly.
Had a friend at U of Iowa that worked at the Frito plant. Told me train cars of corn, oil and salt came in one side and trucks full of Fritos left the other side. A perfect food.
I'm glad he cleared that up, cuz I was wondering.
My last semester I needed to take so many classes I couldn’t work much. Went to Aldi, which was brand new, and bought as many loaves of white bread as would fit in the freezer, a gallon tub of peanut butter and a gallon of jelly. Think I would have enjoyed a depression quesadilla.
Years ago a friend from Ghent Belgium was offered a promotion to a town 40 minutes away, in my young ambitious American mind a no brainer. He said no, the people there would know I’m not local because of my accent.
After that they just blocked the road and enjoyed the show.
Years ago at U of Iowa at a snowball fight between Burge Hall (rated one of the top 10 college party dorms by somebody) and the frats across the way. A cop drove to the middle got out of his car and raised his hands. He was pummeled, couldn't get in his car, just put it in D and let it drag him.
this is a really powerful piece.
My guess is that DHS thinks this will be the new normal, just spread over as much of the country as possible. Just depends on whether they are competent enough to organize/staff/manage an even larger nation wide effort and whether Democrats can stop them first. Both very open questions.
I don’t get this take. I know lots of religious folks who as an atheist I have zero ability to influence. (They’ll say, seems like a nice guy but you know.) If Talarico and Bashear can reach them great. Not gonna right people off just cuz they won’t be persuaded by my arguments about politics.
I like the idea of AOC as Speaker. The only way we come out the other side of this with a functioning democracy is if Congress steps up and plays its proper role. I think she could play an historic role there.
Morons
Morons are in charge
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...
My sense, based on vibes not actual knowledge, is that the best approach would be to sprint to the new thing so you can rely on it before the old collapses from lack of investment. Sort of the opposite of what the US is doing now.
I’m guessing I’m not gonna want to listen to this one before bed.
hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:
- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
Agree. Without Congress stepping up and assuming the role envisioned for it in the Constitution court reform is not going to happen.
I guess you can be middle-aged without being grown-up.
crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.
this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots:
1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
Michael de Adder
www.standwithminnesota.com
Here’s a great place to send some of those savings
Trying to change a delivery date from Home Depot with AI agent. Answer I needed, "I can't do that but here's the number of the shipping company who can." Instead I got ten minutes of how's your day, what good taste you have, how great is this shipper, etc. etc. Unable to say I can't do that.
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
