Man, people really hate the economy. It’s not a new story. In fact, the only thing interesting about it how not new it is. People hate the Clinton economy. People hated the W. economy. People really hated the Great Recession economy (go figure). People hate the Obama economy, even as it came roaring back better than before the Great Recession. People hated the Trump economy (less so, but that’s another story that’s the same story). People really hated the pandemic economy. People continued to really hate the Biden economy, even as it came back roaring better than before, well, anything...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Kid Gloves by Prism Shores
Sure, we’ll be back with some real posts someday soon, but until then, enjoy this ear worm from Kid Gloves’s new record Softest Attack just released last week.
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Big Fizz by MADMADMAD
This week’s is from indie rock dance party MADMADMAD, possibly the only good thing from Tottenham right now.
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Bingo by La Sécurité
This week’s is “Bingo” from La Sécurité, off their forthcoming album of the same name coming June 12, 2026.
Continue reading...Till the End of the Day — Friday, 27 March 2026
Again, some links to keep you occupied. (“Mom, they’re link-blogging again!”) Two long ones about the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran: When Intelligence Fails: A Legal Targeting Analysis of the Minab School Strike (Joseph N. Orenstein for Just Security) AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying (Kevin T. Baker for The Guardian) Also, Bret Devereaux on the Iran war. Detailed analysis of the U.S. seizure of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. “As the nation prepares to mark the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its founding, it’s easy...
Continue reading...On war and oil
There’s a war on. Gas prices are rising. The means the war is bad, you see. The fact that the common sense wisdom of how wise or useful or necessary wars are is contingent on the price of crude oil is embarrassing and insulting. Instead of judging on if the costs of the war itself, the lives lost, the territory damaged, the global leadership lost, we judge it based on one metric: the world’s everlasting thirst for one natural resource. Wars should have aims. I almost never think a war’s aims (even if they are in fact...
Continue reading...Worst past the post
So the Bluesky candidate narrowly lost their primary election yesterday to a normal candidate and honestly I seriously don’t give a fuck. Let the local populace choose their party’s nominee and leave me out of it. I don’t give a shit about congressional primaries. There’s still a ton of attention online because they were the super online candidate, so good luck avoiding it. That said, I have to note something, because this is a blog and noting something is what we do. With 35,642 out of 121,354 votes in as this blog post publishes, the eventual nominee...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: It’s A Beautiful Life by Francis of Delirium
Oops, missed last week — sorry about that. Here’s a new one from Francis of Delirium off their upcoming record, Run, Run Pure Beauty coming May 29.
Continue reading...Till the End of the Day — Friday, 6 March 2026
I know we said we would do less link-blogging, but we didn’t say we would do no link-blogging. We used to do the Morning Constitutional, which was a daily roundup of news stories we found important/interesting, and Till the End of the Day (yes, this is a Kinks reference), which was more a dump of things we found during the day that we thought were cool. We bagged the Morning Constitutional for the return of the blog partially because it was a ton of work, but mostly because all the news now is behind paywalls, and that’s...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Maybe Not Tonight by Lime Garden
A day late because the scheduler broke. Anyways, just a pretty good song.
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