back at it

Sure.

The Trail Blazers won the same number of championships this season as the Spurs and Thunder. #RipCity

2008 America was infinitely better than 1958 America.

“But on the third or fourth viewing, it dawns on you: Jar Jar is a Jedi master, and his supposed goofiness is really strategic deception.”

This is news to Hitler, I imagine

this is extremely funny

It is the official position of the Catholic Church that the sport is called Soccer. Total cultural victory achieved. 🇺🇸

Dan perfectly captured this gif its purest distillation… a joke only social scientists could love. Bravo Dan. 10/10. No Revisions.

It’s not diabolical. An extremely Democratic city preferred Democrats over the principal Republican. Not liking the outcome of an election does not make the outcome nefarious. The Speaker isn’t dumb; he knows this. But that he has to pretend he doesn’t is a real problem.

It’s so funny listening to Bill “I don’t have a dog in this fight” Simmons after G3, as if he hasn’t been in love with Wemby all season and the Knicks aren’t his third least favorite team behind the Lakers and Heat. Sure, Bill. Sure.

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.

Methodists should not be permitted to serve in the military until they stop gaming the system to let church out early to beat the Baptists to lunch

christian twitter used to be fun

Critiquing the legitimacy of elections that don’t go your way, while applauding those that do, is an efficient way to undermine trust in political institutions *and* protect yourself from cognitive dissonance.

Arizona is another planet, folks.

This is good: "The state can create space for faith. It can protect the Church from persecution. It can even order society in ways that reflect natural law and Christian moral reasoning. But it cannot generate living faith. That remains the Church’s vocation." firstthings.com/will-hungary…

“Nations are not Christian because their constitution says so or because their leaders wield the cross.” firstthings.com/will-hungary…

Serious question re: Blanche document granting immunity to DJT... Could a future DOJ simply waive or overrule said document in pursuing, say, civil charges? Or is it binding in a way other DOJ memos aren't? Help me out here, @martensmatt1 @CaseyMattox_

Or a trained volunteer welcome team.