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Let me absolutely clear: I am not interested in your opinion of Bluesky personality Will Stancil. It is not relevant. It has nothing to do with whether the question "what problem is this intended to solve and will it actually solve that problem" is a legitimate one.

Seeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...

We can also predict reasonably well what happens when low-margin enterprises encounter a competitor who undercuts them on price in a way they can't compete with.

One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.

It’s actually Farscape

to put it very mildly "there'd better be a Very Good Reason to include non white people in stuff" is not really making the point Wilson thinks she is

Emily Wilson's latest translation is a prequel to The Odyssey. But since the original already covered the Trojan Horse, this one is all about a fight between two minor characters that Odysseus encountered in Hades. Embarrassing cash grab, milking that IP for all it's worth.

The difference between Andy Rooney and whatever Ross Douthat is going to be doing on '60 Minutes' is that Andy Rooney saw the bodies at Normady and the horror of the concentration camps, because he was a honest to god war correspondent before he became 'Andy Rooney' -- www.salon.com/2011/09/28/i...

One thing abt Douthat that might not be entirely obvious. he landed the nyt gig at 29. basically after a few years at nat review, right out of college. he's now 46. he got the ultimate opinion gig more or less right out of college, he's been there 17 yrs. little experience in non-cush gigs.

SB 79 project tracker so far: Palo Alto (x9, lol) San Mateo South Pasadena Santa Monica

Basic rules of society that we need to re-establish post Covid: - You actually have to stop for red lights and stop signs. - If you want to watch videos or listen to music in a shared public space, you need to use headphones. - Your pet does not need to go everywhere with you. - Don’t litter.

Then again, a lot of print journalists are absolutely obsessed with getting on TV, even though being on TV is an objectively unpleasant experience compared to sitting at your own desk and writing something.

Genuinely bizarre that Douthat would give up the cushiest job in journalism, where management clearly loves him, to join a newsroom whose defining attributes are its internal dysfunction and the constant stream of embarrassing leaks from disgruntled staffers.

Finally our generation gets its Andy Rooney

I eat less cheese than I used to for both health and comfort reasons (lactose intolerance gets worse as you get older), but I've been absolutely obsessed with burrata lately. Burrata with good summer tomatoes, fresh basil, olive oil, and a decent loaf of bread is just a perfect meal.

No joke, one of the most haunting movies I've ever seen, ANIARA, is an adaptation of a book-length Swedish poem from the 1950s.

As mentioned in this post, I'm beginning to line up events related to my book's December release. So if you're interested in booking me for an event, please reach out! publiccomment.blog/p/and-we-re-...

Just pre-ordered!

Embrace Ben's abundance mindset

One more blurb for my forthcoming book, BUILD OR DIE. And here's that pre-order link again! bookshop.org/p/books/buil...