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Former English professor, medievalist, editor, writer. Books: The Gawain-Poet and Anticlericalism (2018); The English Apocalypse (2024): https://isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=184714.
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The tinpot dictator of El Salvador -- who is known for sending gang suspects to prison with no trial, and even locking up their innocent children -- comes across as more concerned with due process than the President of the United States here. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

What doesn't make sense to me about this alleged literary agent making fun of her wacky submissions is ... isn't the *job* of a literary agent to sift through a bunch of wacky ideas people throw on the wall and find one that has potential? If you hate doing that, why are you in the business?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

submitted 14 days ago • 399 comments

It’s crazy that this article in the Times complains that New Yorkers don’t know who all the candidates for mayor are … then doesn’t name all the candidates for mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I’m glad that judges are stepping in, but I wish the media would stop calling these “deportations.” People aren’t just being flown back to their countries of origin — they’re being imprisoned, in places that are apparently beyond the reach of the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Our financial advisor has started talking to us the way parents talk to their children in an emergency, trying not to sound scared.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

If Elon’s so smart, why isn’t he stopping Trump from destroying the country? That seems like it would be something that a smart presidential advisor would do.

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

Be right back, I need to find a smaller violin.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 26 days ago • 527 comments

I can't imagine being one of these lawyers on the side of the Trump administration, having to argue before the Supreme Court that an innocent man, who you know for a certain fact is innocent, SHOULD remain in prison forever. You would have to have a breathtakingly low measure of character.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I spent a couple minutes watching the little stock market line slow-crawl up and down on the New York Times website. It's mesmerizing. Is this what it's like to work in finance?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Having exausted all other options — having seen all other defenses fail — all our hopes for being rescued from one of the most deranged and stupid national leaders in history now rest with the highest and final authority in this country: the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

submitted 27 days ago • 148 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 27 days ago • 1137 comments

Trump is already creating new jobs. For example, there is about be a big boon in the smuggling profession.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments