at this point, you just gotta assume that U2 has stopped looking.

you can tell charles c. w. cooke is smart because of how many middle initials he has.

i think it's perfectly OK and perhaps even commendable to be career-focused while in college, but it's more the idea of higher ed as mere vocational training that i find offensive. i think education is worthwhile and valuable for its own sake and i wish this sentiment were more widely shared.

it's a lot easier to make people feel comparatively prosperous (by immiserating others) than actually increasing prosperity.

what better way to showcase "the majesty of the law" than to do some wanton murdering?

"actually, it's pronounced 'go-ji-ra.'"

you have to know how to translate manchin-ese. "doing anything" in this case actually means "doing nothing," which is exactly what he thinks the senate is supposed to do.

it was super cool when all the centrist pundits were telling us that eric adams was the future of the democratic party.

mokey rules

they seem to think that tacitly admitting that there's a real risk of innocent people getting executed is worse than executing innocent people.