Day: February 3, 2020

Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Landslides Are Best Left for Songs, and Other Fleeting Hopes

Andrew Donaldson February 3, 2020

Landslides that aren't coming for Sanders or Trump, The Des Moines Register, backside of the Super Bowl,...

Joker: Don’t Trust the Narrator Statue of William Falkner on a park bench

Joker: Don’t Trust the Narrator

gabriel conroy February 3, 2020

The film "Joker" is not what it seems. (Spoilers abound)

Taking The Joy Out of Country Club Membership CABriggs Joy 4041 crop

Taking The Joy Out of Country Club Membership

Clare Briggs February 3, 2020

You poor fish!

Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25On the success of Don't Rank Cuomo: “In these troubled times we live in, we need that.” Dawn Phelps,…
Philip H in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25They “looked dominant” which was the point. You can’t “win” negotiations by looking “weak” and diplo…
Philip H in reply to Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaNeither are prevailing wages in construction or agricultural work. But those workforces are being ru…
InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25Initial reports are that the strikes only set the Iranian program back by months. What a disaster. N…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreOne point that strikes me as obvious is that continuing to fail, enough times, presents identically…
Jaybird in reply to John Puccio on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?From what I understand, the original pitch for Stranger Things was a bunch of clips from a half doze…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThere are plenty who consider "we tried and failed" to be morally justifiable in a way that "we didn…
John Puccio in reply to Andrew Donaldson on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?Similar to Band of Brothers.
Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaWe had to have a plumber out yesterday evening because some numbnuts in an apartment above us has be…
Philip H on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaAt 4% unemployment nationally these jobs will remain difficult to fill.

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Day: February 3, 2020

Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Landslides Are Best Left for Songs, and Other Fleeting Hopes

Joker: Don’t Trust the Narrator

Taking The Joy Out of Country Club Membership

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