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submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Roderick on the Line, Ep. 581: "The Velocities of Youth" The Problem: Merlin doesn't know how to make a bird horny. www.merlinmann.com/roderick/ep-...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It’s common to try “reforming government” by electing outsiders. Conservatives think government should be run like a business and liberals want to put activists in office. But politics is a profession, not for amateurs. Our problems of the last 20 years are mostly down to putting clowns in office.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It is important to make distinctions. The truth often exists in distinctions. Telling lies begins by blurring distinctions.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Fathers of teens! Chauffeur your kids and their friends to the mall, or wherever they want to go and say, “I’m just the driver.” Let them swear, let them say things to each other you know are wrong, and don’t correct them or snicker. They’ll learn to trust you and you will learn everything.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Portland, OR. has 600k people and 15 bridges and is known as Bridge City or Bridgetown. I’ve never heard anyone actually say Bridgetown, but it’s on signs. In 1950 Pittsburgh, PA. had 600k people and was known as The City of Bridges. It has 446 bridges. That’s 431 more, innit?

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

The Czechs make good cars And good beers And good crystal chandeliers

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Me, to my eye-rolling 8th grader: “I was in 8th grade in 1982. I know that probably sounds like the moon to someone your age.” She, looking out the window: “I mean, ten-ish years before people were literally walking on the moon.”

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve learned to have great empathy for the elevated few who have perfect knowledge of the present, the future, the lives of others and how they should be. Imagine how frustrating it is for them to live in this flawed world pouring their wisdom out in comments and posts to a deaf and ungrateful mass.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Have you ever taken out your own stitches? I feel like this might be one of those Gen X things.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Pete Hegseth is a twat, in the British sense. Even Rumsfeld, the prior record-holder for worst SecDef, is ROLLING in his grave. If Trump had the same policies as Jimmy Carter his administration would STILL be illegitimate based on Hegseth alone. I would rather have Kid Rock do it.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

This Roderick on the Line is really good, and I’d love it if you listened to it. We talk about holes and ravines and a giant haunted mirror that Roderick bought. overcast.fm/+AABmEP1f9_k

submitted 50 days ago • 15 comments

Each week I do a podcast, Dear John Letters, answering listener mail. Normally it’s only for Patreon subscribers but tonight I’m taking letters from all comers and I’ll make the show available to everyone tomorrow, FREE! Anonymous question? DM me! Over 100 eps already up Patreon.com/johnroderick

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Cory Booker is playing the ground game and I am here for it.

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Thinking you took the red pill IS the blue pill.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I’m interviewing Dan Carlin at the Moore Theater on April 11th and you should go.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

If I were a TV exec I’d be both securing the rights to the Flashman novels and casting a handsome young British comedic actor to play the role because that series, done well as wry social commentary, could go ten seasons. It would be expensive as fuck to make but it’s tailor-made for modern TV.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

I get wanting them to go faster and harder but it's worth appreciating the courts have been rising to the occasion and aggressively swinging into action in huge ways and at a lightning pace, on a scale unprecedented in American history. Many judges are aggressively treating this as a real crisis.

submitted 72 days ago • 47 comments

Lots of people credit Appetite for Destruction (1987) for rescuing hard rock from the clutches of hair metal, and true heads give credit to Nothing’s Shocking (1988) for putting the “alt” in alternative but let’s give a shout to The Cult’s “Electric” (1987). It influenced everything that came after.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

One of the most important choices you can make is whether you tell the story of your pain and injury as an excuse for why you are weak or an explanation for why you are strong. I think every story of suffering is one of these two, conscious or not.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Y’know, sadness isn’t the opposite of happiness, it’s its own thing. Sadness can coexist with happiness. I’m generally happy with my life, I’m not depressed—I know what that feels like—nor am I feeling bad about something. I’m just sad in my heart. It’s not pathetic. I don’t need help. It just is.

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

Normally I don’t rejoice in schadenfreude and I counsel against it as mentally toxic but fully half my Bluesky feed—the half that isn’t doomscrolling—is rejoicing in example after example of Trump chaos directly affecting MAGA-wingnuts and I am absolutely chortling with delight.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments