Heard this again today. Is "my best friend": * My drug of choice? * My genitalia? * My secret gay lover? They all fit! (Though I think the first two better than the third.)

... part of this is the "you can't tell by looking" aspect of it (as you address in many other ways in your essay). It's easier to imagine an invisible conspiracy when the putative members are hard to identify. Would anybody know George Soros was Jewish? That "revelation" helps feed the paranoia.

I am no expert on anti-Semitism, but when you point out "how can [it] seem so invisible" I was reminded of my activism in the LGBT community. When working with opponents I noticed homophobia resembled anti-semitism more than other -isms (secret cabal, etc.). I speculated at the time that ... (1/2)

It's a MAGA ouroboros at this point. MAGA judicial: you must protect against bad faith prosecutions of presidents .... like those of MAGA legislative branch today, and those MAGA executive branch promises tomorrow ... so therefore we must protect MAGA former president from liability for crimes

I believe you. I can't speak to its effect on the outcome, but I will say it's also pretty unappealing to watch.

Celtics (and Tatum) fan here. Having watched most games this year, I gotta say this is just part of his game now. Basically any drive to the hoop, if he doesn't score or draw a foul, ends with visible offense at the injustice. Loved watching him outhustle everyone on the boards last night, though.

I'm sort of obsessed with Caitlin Clark? Particularly the passing from the backcourt and the midcourt in transition?

Though it is painful for me to say (and I was wrong about it in 2016), I think it turned out that even the abhorrent Jeff Flipping Sessions had more principles than Johnson (and Johnson has more than most GOP electeds).

My dad was obsessed with efficiency. When he started chemotherapy he explained its effects to me by comparing how many minutes it took to mow his yard with his push mower before chemo and how many extra minutes it took after.

Also, depending when this was, his might have been after Newsweek turned into an embarrassment (circa 2013). You made the good Newsweek!