The kitty is taking a bath even as I type this.
And here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Trump is a lying carny asshole who is not going to send $5000 checks. (Public Notice)
On Talarico and Christian nationalism. (Sojourner’s)
Impeachment and removal are possible. (EIH)
And more on impeachment in a convo with John Stoehr. (Editorial Board)
Ed Sheeran sides with genocide denial. (EIH)
Cultural criticism
70 perfect albums of the 2000s. (EIH)
The Uprising is an impressively inert film about class uprising. (Chicago Reader)
The surreptitious addiction of The Lady Gambles. (Splice Today)
300 as reverse colonial fever dream. (EIH)
Full Metal Jacket as anxious male empowerment fantasy. (EIH)
Poetry
Little anxiety poem (Five Fleas)
I don’t have time to
not have time for
the time I don’t
have.
That kind of week. (Five Fleas)
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The goal of social media
is to make friends and then
slowly
over time
turn them into enemies.When everyone hates you
you win
and get to die.
From the archives
Effective Altruism Is Neither Effective Nor Altruistic
Image: Sam Bankman-Fried by Cointelegraph, CC
Track of the week
Squeaking Christian baroque pop.
