Totally agree that they should try and find the caller. It definitely seems to me like someone wanted to weaponize the cops against this guy. Unfortunately, it could be hard to do if the caller even had a google-search-level knowledge of how to hide their information. Spoofing has become really easy lately, which is…

I posted this below, but Jason’s Stanley’s recent remark about our institutions applies, “Our institutions aren’t robots that walk around the country independently of us. We are our Institutions.” Nobody, not the Congress, the press, or, despite a couple small rebukes, the courts seem seriously interested in checking…

Purdue’s “We accidentally a Photoshop. Is that bad?” explanation was equally ridiculous. As someone who knows my way around a few digital art programs, there’s definitely no Nazi propaganda filter to accidentally click on, much less a way to fuck up resizing the image if you weren’t intending to give him a bigger nose.

Robinson countered charges that his tool was unethical by saying that exploiting legal vacuums is “what entrepreneurs do, duh,” and named AirBnB, Apple, and Uber.

You say: Don’t use us as a publicity stunt, please!

They sold out of those Fauci cards so fast! I used to collect baseball cards when I was younger, so I thought about blowing some money on that kinda dumb purchase. They were gone by the time I found out, the same evening they released it.

It’s wannabe Putins all the way down, I’m afraid.

Fighting astral sex-demons is so 20th century. Us evil secular humanists are onto teaching a safe extraplanar sex curriculum and passing out psionic condoms.

“Deliverance minister,” you say?

That’s why you always wear an astral condom. If only we had a safe extraplanar sex curriculum!

That’s also the reason I scratch my head whenever folks start talking about a second civil war. We’re sorted along ideological, but not territorial lines, like we were back in the 19th century. That, plus the fact the US has a giant standing army that’s trained to fight insurgents and nuclear weapons makes “the Boogalo…

Quite. It’d be one thing if triangulation had given the Democrats a series of uninterrupted victories from Clinton onward and we had a super-majority in both houses of Congress and control of the Supreme Court. In theory, incremental improvements would be acceptable if provided in an unbroken succession with no…

Hmm.  As a Connecticut Yankee, I have to say, I would’ve picked Waterbury as more of a brunette.  Everything else checks out, though.

Yeah, it’s definitely not wrong to consider illiberal impulses of the left. They do exist. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be a pernicious history of communist/socialist projects that turned totalitarian. But I wouldn’t fret about it too much. We’ve still got a lot of system and coalition building before we’re even in…

Sorry for the length, but I’m trying to be as even-keeled as possible, because these kinds of conversations always suck.

Hmm. Some interesting things to think about there. I suppose we’ll find out if there are any death-bed UFO news dumps sooner or later.

Ha! That rules!

Yeah, instantly thought of this line from a now-old splinter article:

Much like Cotton’s “no quarter” threat and this mythologizing of history, the GOP, as a whole, seems to be talking itself into officially dropping any pretense of being anything other than a fascist project. Fox host, Maria Bartiromo, said this to Chad Wolf (illegal DHS secretary) last night and I’m stunned it hasn’t…

Oddly enough, a Lithuanian restaurateur already did that one. They both seem to be wearing tracksuits, which is a little on the nose.