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The whole literary agent thing is harder than writing the actual book.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

It all comes down to the whims of the king.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

PSA: Always listen to your better 1/2. She saw something on my head that didn’t look right (and I get the joke that could go here). I probably wouldn’t have went on my own yet. But I did it for her & went & got it checked. Surface level melanoma. They just took it off.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

The trouble with the woke is that they elevate identity over competence. The trouble with the anti-woke is that they do precisely the same—only substituting ideology for identity. In both cases, merit is the casualty.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

Using Speechify to edit my book. This is a pretty amazing piece of software.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

What a shitshow the last few weeks have been.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote a book - or finished a book - I guess I should say. That’s where I’ve been. And to those that have asked about how I feel about things. I feel this way.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

The real interesting part is coming—the moment when people who’ve been conditioned to believe one thing suddenly find themselves on the receiving end of it. When the very system they cheered for, the one they swore was right, finally takes hold—and they’re the ones getting hurt.

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

Trump operates on the belief that might makes right and that philosophy fuels his approach toward Colombia and Greenland and his indifference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For him, strength is justification, and with strength comes entitlement.

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

1. If Trump, Musk, and Rufo are successful in eliminating “DEI hires” from the federal workforce, it would likely entail laying off thousands or tens of thousands of veterans, many with service-related injuries.

submitted 126 days ago • 10 comments

Those who’ve long argued that billionaires have been deliberately fueling our culture wars—choosing divisive distractions over the threat of class solidarity to safeguard their wealth—have, in recent months, been really strutting their stuff.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

I did learn something today that I did not know before. Some of the "Diversity hires" for the Federal Government are Vets who need minor accommodations. I guarantee you this will cause a stink when these cuts get publicized.

submitted 126 days ago • 8 comments

Let's see. 1) Chamath gets a big tax cut. 2) Tariffs go into place. 3) American companies purchasing foreign goods pay the tariffs. 4) The cost is passed along to the consumer. Which effectively is a tax on the low and middle class. 5) Chamath makes out like a bandit.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

The 2020 Floyd riots—riots, not protests—were entirely condemnable. I don’t care what the underlying grievances were; the moment peaceful demonstrations turned into destruction, it went too far. But what’s been striking to me is how those riots seemed to push so many on the right over the edge.

submitted 127 days ago • 3 comments

With Trump, there is no intrinsic sense of right or wrong. That’s simply not part of the equation. Right becomes right if someone pays to make it so; wrong is wrong if the price is right to enforce it. It’s a matter of pure transaction, devoid of principle.

submitted 127 days ago • 4 comments

You hear this some and it’s absolutely true. You can’t understand the present without understanding the past. This tine - way more than last time - Trump is what you would get if you combined Huey Long with William Tweed.

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

You’ve got to ban tiktok or you telegraph an x-ray of America’s jello spine to CCP HQ.

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

My feeling has always been - these social media companies should be treated like the private companies they are and the federal government should not use coercive language seeking to impact management decisions.

submitted 138 days ago • 2 comments

I used to say “old Bill has the memory of an elephant”. I will now say “ol’ Bill has the memory of Karen Pence”.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

When I turn to the news in search of information about a disaster, I seek to understand the event itself, not to endure an instant barrage of political posturing and analysis. Yet not a single major American news network seems capable of providing what I’m after.

submitted 140 days ago • 14 comments