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As I frequently say to myself, What Would Jesus Do? Sometimes the answer is he'd flip over tables and chase bankers with a whip.

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To paraphrase William Buckley, "conservatives stand athwart history, yelling STOP! ... Or we'll murder you and any innocents lying around, and pass off any kids left alive to our pedophile masters, if we ourselves can't get at them."

He cares. He's *very happy* about it.

Modern conservatives are rapists and murderers; and child rapists and child murderers. They used to lie about why they'd do such things: "Freeeeeedom." They're out of the closet. "Look at what we can do! AND YOU CAN'T STOP US!"

Good to see you here. It took me far too long to leave FB -- I managed Twitter shortly after Musk bought it. But too many real friends over there, and only there. Posting there made me feel like I was directly supporting fascism, though.

"Maybe he's an artist of overriding genius. That's a kind of monster, isn't it?" - Captain Sir Dominic Flandry, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Poul Anderson.

The WHCA Dinner used to be an event at which POTUS was roasted by the press, which ostensibly served the purpose of reminding POTUS of the role of the news media as a check on executive power. Now it is a humiliation ritual for journalists, in which their very presence is evidence of subservience.

Shhhh.

I've never met a wholly honest person. I suspect Streitfeld's apparent bemusement regarding fiction writers is a pose itself.

I'm reading "Western Star," a biography of Larry McMurtry by David Streitfeld. He remarks regularly on the dishonesty of McMurtry and other writers, straight faced enough that you might think Streitfeld, a writer himself, isn't another liar, like the rest of the field of professional writers.

Don't say I never did anything for you.

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

I'm mostly straight, but young Burt Lancaster was something.

That's pretty cool.

I wish they'd struggled with it more myself, but given the circumstances, I'm not sacrificing the existence of my time either, not without knowing it would be replaced by something so unambiguously better there would be no comparison. (Maybe not then, I have 5 kids.)

Fellow elsewhere called himself an artist, then retracted it. Folks, like Stephen King's algorithm regarding "professional" -- if you ever cashed a check -- if you ever reached one person with your work and made their daily path easier, you're an artist for my purposes.