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Still, the OKC franchise’s greatest moment is Xavier McDaniel’s cameo in Singles

Millennials are trying to claim Oasis and I will not stand for it

The man who has repeatedly tried to humiliate Ukraine in the name of “peace” is starting a war with Iran

Oh, I had forgotten Olivia Colman was on an episode of The Office UK:

If AI can read all the comments on my columns and just send me the flattering ones, the destruction of society will all be worth it

He worked with Arsenio, Jay, Andy, Mel, Jerry, Julia, Larry, Sacha, Nic, Bob. Larry Charles's memoir has good stories about all of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/b...

Sophie Cunningham, dispenser of justice: www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/what...

The Midwest inter-state beef America needs: Minnesota's Hormel sues Wisconsin's Johnsonville for allegedly stealing sausage secrets:

Me today at @nationalreview.bsky.social: Sports may be the final place in America to get swift justice: link.nationalreview.com/click/68547f...

This executive order plus 99 cents will purchase you a Banquet chicken pot pie

If sports justice is a sort of frontier justice, It's what Americans crave. Nobody likes seeing the bad guys get away. But today, it's increasingly the case they not only get away with terrible acts, but some try to turn them into heroes. | @anti-knowledge.com trib.al/gwh18E2

Caitlin Clark did for sports what Donald Trump did for politics: Brought in a lot of new people who had never paid attention before and have no idea how anything works.

“Eight Artists Who Played Summerfest Before Making It Big.” And they list the Red Hot Chili Peppers….in 2000 😵‍💫🙄

This is it, fam. Almost three years ago, Scot Bertram and I had the idea of watching and grading every SNL sketch, episode, and season. And today we release our Season 50 episode, free to everyone. Still a great place to start!

Today I learned there is someone named "Morgan Wallen" playing a stadium show in my hometown and the cheapest nosebleed tickets are over $250 apiece

"How this dross ever got beyond the pilot stage is a mystery."

This is it, fam. Almost three years ago, Scot Bertram and I had the idea of watching and grading every SNL sketch, episode, and season. And today we release our Season 50 episode, free to everyone. Still a great place to start!

OK but when is the Short Kings rally

Sports fandom and classical stoicism are incompatible

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

My @nationalreview.bsky.social Magazine piece this month looks at how the art of the autograph is fading in a digital world (gift link): link.nationalreview.com/click/684b49...

Most of modern "news" is made up of what Daniel Boorstin termed "pseudo-events." That's a thing that is "not spontaneous but comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it."

Subsidizing film and television production only props up an obsolete studio-dominated system. | @anti-knowledge.com trib.al/JLgnzxV

Tax credits and tariffs are not going to save Hollywood from technology: Me today at @nationalreview.bsky.social: link.nationalreview.com/click/684ad8...

The Bonfire of the Mediocrities: Trump's cabinet picks are exactly as preposterous as we all expected. www.anti-knowledge.com/p/the-bonfir...

Sergeant Squidward

I am once again an academic. Read me in the new Middle West Review journal:

The Birds (1963): "I was not frightened. Merely horrified. In my opinion, the only ones who will be afraid of 'The Birds' are very small children...they should give an Oscar to the bird trainer." LA Evening Citizen News, 3/28/1963

Finished Dept. Q on Netflix. If you like a good British crime series, it's well worth your time.

Um, Adam Scott and I are the same age and I have a daughter graduating college next year.

Trump visits the Tesla he bought from Musk

When Stephen Miller's wife moves on to Kanye the circle will be complete

If every guy you meet is telling you he's gay, that might be a you problem

Trump’s tariff regime is like a velvet‑roped VIP line. Firms must petition Washington for exemptions, unleashing a lobbying bonanza that lets the WH dispense carve‑outs to political friends or enemies looking to change their fortunes. | @anti-knowledge.com trib.al/hdF3Mx3

Truly making America great again means not using "skyrocket" as a verb

Saw a woman at Costco today wearing a hat that said “MILF.” I would simply like to point out that logically, MILF is not a designation one may grant one’s self.

I've had similar disquieting conversations with ChatGPT - good for @guinz.bsky.social for documenting it all: amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Today I learned my great-grandfather wrote polkas in the 1940s and 1950s, including this ode to the Green Bay Packers:

When people say SNL isn't funny anymore, they are typically saying "it's not as funny as its best years." But in Season 49, the show saw a resurgence, returning to its status as...pretty good! Listen here: www.wasntthatspecial.com/p/season-49-...

I figured out the one good thing about the internet: Being able to buy embarrassing things anonymously:

The choices in style and music made by Gen Xers were a protest against the culture of their boomer parents - but what do Zoomers have to rebel against given everything their Gen X parents did was obviously awesome?

Christopher Hitchens always told stories about how he and his writer friends (Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, etc.) would get together, drink, and rag on each other for the things they wrote. This sounds like the most fun I could have as a human being.