Why could I only see the Coen bros "creating" No Country For Old Men? How many films have been made of Cormac McCarthy's novels by now? McCarthy "created" the story, and then they adapted it for the screen. Other directors can do this too. It wasn't the work of an auteur. You say directing for money is "sad," so your purity tests must be real rigorous.

Alert the media! America is getting fat. And this advice is so original: The cure isn’t complicated. Walk more. Eat less junk. Lift some weights. Sweat occasionally. Experience hunger without panic. These aren’t revolutionary concepts. Every functioning culture taught them long before TikTok discovered kettlebells.

My favorite review was Melody Maker’s review of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough back in the eighties. Short and to the point, it simply said “I can. You will.”

Very nice. We (I'm from Philadelphia) "rebranded" the museum as the "Philadelphia Art Museum." I can't help but wonder if Duchamp's title inspired Snagglepuss.

Some bad news, though. The tariffs also added $1700 per year in routine expenses. Building a new house would cost $17,500 more than previously. The BBB enabled health care cuts enabled premiums to rise by 114 percent. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/a-year-in-review-how-the-trump-administrations-economic-policies-made-life-less-affordable-for-americans/

President Trump’s over the top tough talk and arm twisting tactics about seizing Greenland are done for the purposes of maximizing negotiating leverage in order to secure a greater defense foothold and expand REE [rare earth elements] exploration and mining in Greenland both of which are very much in the U.S vital interests..[see link]...https://www.sciencealert.com/a-geologist-explains-what-makes-greenland-so-incredibly-special... Ultimately any deal related to defense and mineral extraction needs to be a win/win/win meaning a win for the U.S a win for Denmark and a win for the Greenlanders.

Sorry I see that type. Tig is a comic and was "savaged" by a different stand up comic who was on Gutfeld!

No true 49ers fan would write such a thing. You must be shunned now.

What an incredibly moronic take.

I like Paul Klee a lot—wonderful colors, for one—but I wouldn't want anyone to have to pretend they like him. Most of the art from the era you reference is to my taste, and I've spent many hours in museums looking at it, with one major exception being Jackson Pollock, whose paintings look like what ends of on the tarps that painters put down to protect the floor. The "drip technique" doesn't work for me.

The quote that ends the third paragraph is missing the word "makes," but it almost works as you are reading it because "taxes" can be a noun or a verb. Regardless, swell piece.

Three years ago, I wrote about how fast the right was changing in the mid-1990s, when I was writing for City Journal. What's happened to the right, including City Journal, in the last three years is worse than anything that happened three decades ago, and a window into it is City Journal's focus group at https://www.city-journal.org/article/manhattan-institute-focus-group-gen-z-republicans rightly dubbed "the focus group from hell" https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/behold-the-focus-group-from-hell-city-journal-young-republicans?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

As I previously stated, bench warrants are generally not followed by home visits. It is not "likely" that a cop would do this.

I mostly agree with you on that Subbeck and I would like to revise my previous comment from where I said “a bench warrant for their arrest will be issued” and change it to ‘a bench warrant for their arrest may be issued’. In the case of an illegal immigrant who was apprehended by CBP and ordered by a judge to appear in court on a certain date, if they fail to appear in court that would constitute a more serious offense in my view and not be considered a low level infraction. Same thing if a U.S citizen were arrested and ordered by a judge to appear in court and they failed to appear in which case a Law Enforcement officer would likely seek out that person and arrest them at their home or place of work.

For most bench warrants from failure to appear (especially on lower-level charges), police do not actively seek you out or make home visits as a routine matter. Resources are limited, and minor warrants are often low-priority. It's such a warrant gets one put in a database that the cops can access during traffic stops etc.

It is interesting to compare the reactions between the FBI seeking to arrest Randy Weaver over a failure to appear in court [after a court official issued an incorrect court appearance date] and ICE officers who attempt to arrest illegal immigrants who fail to appear for their scheduled immigration court hearing and have been issued a removal order by an immigration Judge. In 2024 alone there were 223,000 removal orders issued https://headlineusa.com/record-no-shows-in-immigration-court-whats-behind-the-surge/... The reaction by much of the media, Democrat politicians and activists has been revealing. When Randy Weaver’s wife and son who were U.S citizens were shot and killed by the FBI the story was largely ignored or they were described as right wing nutters who had it coming to them. The reaction to ICE trying to arrest an illegal immigrant for failure to appear in court by the same media, politicians and activists is outrage and an effort to obstruct the official duties of ICE. For the record if any U.S citizen fails to appear for a court date a bench warrant for their arrest will be issued along with additional criminal charges and fines. Shouldn't these same standards also apply to illegal immigrants or do they deserve preferential treatment...

You know I liked Metropolitan but there was an element of mediocrity. Was that the point? To assemble a collection of Waspy boys who were so foppish they might have well have been gay? But then the movie would have had a lot more sex.

I'd be curious to know what--if any--violence the protestors committed that would've merited the use of tear gas (and pepper balls). The video linked at start of this piece suggests this was a peaceful crowd that included children. One gets the same impression from https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2026/02/tear-gas-at-portland-ice-protest-chokes-children-seniors-in-crowd.html https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/resign-portland-mayor-issues-scathing-statement-after-protesters-gassed-at-portland-ice-building.html and https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-its-really-like-a-first-hand-account-of-the-portland-ice-facility-occupation/

This has the whiff of AI hanging all over it.

It's "oddly idiotic" to write this sentence: "It’s a country where people drive past three grocery stores to buy fried dough and then file a complaint against the universe."

Which one of these do you see yourself as, Ken? Has fleeing to Bluesky elevated you - in your mind - way beyond where you were when you were slumming it on Twitter?

Hmm ... 'congeal' not the best verb since it's a bad thing. Better to say it *does* congeal a bit, instead of mixing well. Film sounds swell, tho.

"A schmuck is, in short, someone who lacks not intelligence, but all insight into what is humanly appropriate and what is not. This makes his condition remediable. A schlemiel, a schlimazel and a schmendrik are irredeemably what they are. A schmuck can be enlightened. He can acquire, through a painful process of self-examination, the moral and social understanding that he has been missing. He can become, to revert to Wex’s dichotomy, a mentsh." Etiquette for Schmucks, Schlemiels, Schlimazels and Schmendriks, The Forward. https://forward.com/culture/127941/etiquette-for-schmucks-schlemiels-schlimazels-and/

if we are fortunate to live long enough eventually all of us join the 'I lost a parent' club. At some point the other parent passes away as do the Aunts, Uncles and every other close family member or friend from their generation leaving those of us who are next in line to take their place as the elder statesman or stateswoman of their family...This is a very touching and well expressed write up.. My condolences to you and your family Mary. RIP Eleanor Grace...

On "Coffee with Scott Adams" today (11/11) Scott Adams says, in discussing how to persuade people, you should watch Cheryl Hines on podcasts, and in particular this episode, if you want to know how to be on a podcast.

That and GQ?

I think seeing The Sting as a young teen or pre-teen helped turn me gay. THAT was a hot couple!

Trump has won twice, but neither of these guys have the slightest idea of why that happened. Try harder, Splice Today.

Hard to imagine thinking that Marc Maron has any real insights into the future of American politics. He's a good comedian and decent interviewer, but his talent stops there. And in this clip, he's talking to a fellow insufferably smug progressive, Sam Seder, who hasn't had an original thought in decades. Posting such material is a total waste of time. Thanks for nothing.

Actually the second littlest one was not her son because he was younger than my dad, i unfortunately don’t remember which cousin he was but the tallest boy was my great aunt’s son.

They are not going to school, my grandfather filmed this. It was a leisurely trip to the end of the line by lake Roland. The little blondie in white was my dad and the dark haired second tallest boy in stripes was my uncle. The lady that was on camera before they boarded was my aunt Bea and the two other boys I think were her sons

Such a great song. So sad youngin's don't know our music in the 60's and 70's was SO much better than their music is.

"If you only know a cup this way, you don't know the cup." David Thomas threw off sparks every time he opened his mouth.

A loving/moving biography of Les Baxter: https://lesbaxter.com/pages/biography

This is great. please add a blusky link one of these days.

Just saw it yesterday. She was terrific.