nathanalderman.bsky.social
Husband, dad, writer, editor, volunteer, Oxford comma enthusiast, colossal nerd. Opinions are my own. He/him/"hey, you!"
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Temporarily blinding and choking and deafening people, hitting them with sticks, & shooting them with big heavy bullets seem like poor ways to calm them down and excellent ways to hurt them until they go away. I feel like the latter should not be a goal of the people to whom we entrust our safety.
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There is certainly virtue in entertaining diverse opinions about this or that topic. But insisting that there is virtue in requiring others to do so on every topic, even if that topic is “I think you should not exist,” seems fallacious at best.
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No one is here dunking on people over ideas about marginal tax rates. If we reject ideas, it’s often because they’re old, tired, and long disproven, over and over, by blood and suffering.
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For what it’s worth, Bluesky shows me the diversity of thought on the left. Lots of different, interesting takes on the same events by people who are nominally ideologically aligned, all of which broaden my perspective and give me food for thought.
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Ms. McArdle, with respect, “I’m not upset, I’m bemused” and “I published an op-ed about how I think this is bad” seem like contradictory statements.
You literally put in the newspaper that you were mad.
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No kings except this kid
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Alas, no. I made it last year, so impeachment wasn’t really relevant. I appreciate you asking, though!
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1. Is every Politico story about Dems a blatant hit job, or just most of them.
2. Ben Wikler wouldn’t be complaining like this. Maybe they should give him the job!
3. That failing: Heck yeah, Tim Onion for DNC chair
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When the kaiju show up, think of how they’ll put everything else in perspective!
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… it’s a crime to give other people a ride within the United States? It’s not like these folks just robbed a bank.
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I’d argue that only Chapter 3 loses the plot like this. Wick says he’s trying to survive to remember his wife, but it never lands. 2 and 4 are both about him fighting to get back to being the person his wife loved, the person he became for her.
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I see what you’re doing there.
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Pretty sure most straight guys — or most gay ones — don’t have these guys’ weird fixation on one particular body part.
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“Good God, Lemon,” Jack whispered, watching his past self.
“Yeah, you’re really getting sloppy with the Rani there.” Lemon grimaced.
“Not that! My tie! A half Windsor?” Jack shook his head, disgusted. “I’d forgotten how much of a slovenly hippie 1985 me was.”
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Can’t stop laughing at the final line
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“All of time and space, everywhere and anywhen, Ms. Lemon, and you wish to go to … a hot dog stand?”
She made fists around his lapels and jerked the Doctor down to stare into her blazing, wrathful eyes.
“No,” she snarled. “I want to go THE hot dog stand.”
“… Yes, of course, right away.”
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"BigBalls, Big Bills"
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"The Elon-signal! I AM NEEDED."
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I have never seen and likely will never see these movies, but I was so impressed by y'all's take on them, especially the discussion of how THE DEVIL'S REJECTS critiques post-9/11 America!
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Feel free, with my compliments!
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“What a week, huh?”
“Lemon, it’s Tuesday.”
“Son of a — he specifically promised he’d drop me off at Saturday!”
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Bobby. Flay.
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Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika
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ahhhhhh right, gotcha, gotcha
Then probably what you need to know is that if you go to see the dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum, there is, or at least was in the past, an excellent gelato place in the Atrium Cafe.
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The free museums are all stupendous -- big fan of the National Portrait Gallery / American Art Museum, a real sleeper -- but if you have the time and money, the Spy Museum and, amazingly, the National Building Museum are pretty dang great, too.
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The use of space here, the way the last figure's so much farther away from the others to emphasize the speed and power of that launch, is just beautiful. Love the midair pants akimbo, too.
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Details on that bogus claim about coverage for the undocumented: www.factcheck.org/2025/05/a-fa...
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Finally, a police department that gets along well with the press.
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STYLE stands out as the elegant, upper-crust cousin to the likes of the unapologetically and laudably basic THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE and Rene J. Cappon's muscular, ink-stained ASSOCIATED PRESS GUIDE TO NEWSWRITING.
If you love good writing and loathe fascists, check it out. -30-
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Yet STYLE somehow remains a fun, engaging read -- perhaps because of the buoyant spirit that animates it.
Lucas was also an ardent antifascist who'd read MEIN KAMPF in the original German. His numerous asides archly stressing his loathing for Hitler and the Nazis make the book even more laudable.
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Lucas writes with the sort of sparkling eloquence you'd expect from the Great British Minds of the era, and for a guy who's all about clarity and empathy, his book includes vast chunks of (originally) untranslated Greek and Latin.
We can't all have gone to Cambridge, Pete.