Clarence Thomas Brings Lifetime of Personal Experience to Complex Supreme Court Case. Thomas loves porn, and loves to talk about how much he loves porn.
McSweeney’s: A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon. This bears a resemblance to mine and Julie’s. We’ve been together 31-plus years.
Please enjoy your Progresso chicken-noodle-soup-flavored hard candy. Sounds awful and I was disappointed they were sold out when I hit the website.
I’ve discovered a hitherto uncategorized mystery subgenre: You’ve heard of whodunnits, noir, procedurals, cozy mysteries, locked-room mysteries, etc. My new subgenre is the Ridiculously Complicated Murder Plan. Columbo and Sherlock Holmes specialized in these.
Casey Newton at Platformer: Mark blames Sheryl.
On the one hand, Zuckerberg complains that phone calls and emails urging the removal of COVID-related content represent undue government pressure. But when Trump threatens to throw Zuckerberg in jail, Zuck says OK , boss,whatever you say, and dismantles DEI programs “before the next president was even inaugurated.”
Zuck told Joe Rogan that companies need more “masculine energy.” Apparently, what Zuck means by “masculine energy” is stuff like farting and burping, and not courage. Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, Chuck Yeager and other exemplars of actual masculine energy are spinning in their graves.
Zuckerberg blames Sheryl Sandberg for Meta’s past DEI policies. “… for women in the workplace, few forms of masculine energy are more familiar than a top executive blaming a woman for the fallout of programs and policies that he agreed to and oversaw.”
Why I’m Running for San Diego City Council at 71 Despite Many Failed Attempts. I like this guy, while also suspecting he may be a loony.
I just watched a few minutes of the Paul Lynde Halloween Special from 1976. Oh, wow. Also, I observe (not for the first time) that Florence Henderson in a sheath dress was kinda smokin'.
You don’t have to be there. @ayjay on the value of cultivating a slow news habit.
" … we cannot and should not draw a line between state censorship and private or civilian censorship … The majority of censorship is self-censorship, but the majority of self-censorship is intentionally cultivated by an outside power."
Similarly, censorship is often performed by a private sector middleman.