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07.03.2026 01:11
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the advertiser-clarion
"is that a good 'oh'," I asked and no, no it is not
great minds &c
“When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
nobody could have foreseen this result of a war in the Persian Gulf
Fellow gardeners! Welcome back to "now where did I put that stupid trowel" season.
Of course Platner knew what his Nazi symbol was. It changed his life. His tattoos were reviewed when he asked to return active duty; a trained officer looked for violations. The sleeve tattoos were OK. The Totenkopf was not. Platner chose to keep it. Somewhere in DoD, it’s all written down. 5/
my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
that weird clicking noise you just heard was hundreds of political science instructors simultaneously copying and pasting this into their slides
inquiring minds want to know more about this "Nuremberg 2.0"
“Universities are slow, lumbering bureaucracies. This is an appropriate time for them to freak out and start adjusting to the death of the journal article. They’re measuring the wrong thing. They will have to start measuring something else.
That brings me to my second point, though: good riddance!”
all right, yes, if you must: "agree on—and be right about!"
it's a real achievement to develop a policy that so many macroeconomists could agree on
well where is the western hemisphere anyway adam
Sorry Steve Wertheim, but this is bullshit:
"Yet for all its Trumpian characteristics, this war is the logical conclusion of how the United States has long dealt with Iran."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/o...
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”
Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…
The new Private Eye is out now.
dammit woman are they on the ground or are they on the table, trying to clean the house over here
"You posted that you're going to, I'm using your words here, 'win' this interview."
Yes.
"Wow."
Yeah.
"There's a thirty percent chance I just want to consult you for your expertise. But in the majority of cases bystanders will be screaming, 'Stop, stop, he's already dead' about two-thirds of the way through the column.
"You can say 'no,' it's totally up to you."
I wanna see one that begins with the Chotiner version of informed consent
remains amazing to me that people volunteer for this
Alright time for the ritual. Time to post our favorite part
There was a moment during my oral exams where I started "arguing" with one of my committee members on a certain historiographical point. They told me later that was *the* moment I passed. It proved I was enough of an expert to disagree with a bigger expert in the field and back it up with evidence.
"do not rely on the US government"
I'd be interested in reading Tony Kushner script treatment of this. And then that's absolutely as far as it should go.