anyway it’s silly we’re compelled to defend the humanities when there are so many actually unjustifiable things happening in the world. next we’ll be compelled to defend learning to read at all

— snackowski (@snackowska) September 18, 2022

Have you seen the Covidians? Many of them were arguing (and still are, I presume) that kids didn’t really need to learn to read. If working in the fields, completely illiterate, was good enough for their great-great-grandparents, by gum, it was certainly good enough for little Harper and Kinsley.

I wonder if that Covidian crap will turn into an actual coherent religious movement? Not likely but possible I guess.

FYI for my women friends: you can get Plan B at Costco for $5.99 with no membership. That’s by far the cheapest anywhere. (It’s usually $35 and up.)

I think if the wannabe Civil War types ever do truly start some shit, they will be very surprised to find that on the liberal side (as much as I am on any side) there are people like me who can and will snipe them with a headshot from 500 meters. All day long.

We aren’t all squishy snowflakes.

Today a friend (a biologist) told me that she intends to wear masks indoors and avoid indoor socialization for the rest of her life, in order to avoid Long Covid.

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) September 18, 2022

She sounds like a total clown.

♫♫ One of these things is not like the others…one of these things is not the same.♫♫

Damn the Covidians are c-c-crazy. Just totally pants-on-head insane. If someone cannot understand the difference between walking around with your ass hanging out and your face uncovered, what do you even say to them? There is just no common basis of reality there at all.

The Ian Welsh nutty buddy types still insist Russia is handily winning in Ukraine, or that it could if it really wanted to. You know, because countries invade to lose wars and destroy their armed forces. Totally makes sense. Like, for real, dude.

And what’s weird is that they’ll insist Russia won that war if and when they retreat, tail between their legs, with only minimal or no territorial gain and a military busted all to hell.

I hope I never think so poorly. Please trout-slap the everliving fuck out of me if I do.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Man, this shit is so weird and perverse to me:

“Nothing in common” and “creepy.” Huh. I’ve found I have quite a lot in common with people of all ages. The idea that people of slightly different ages are so hugely divergent without even considering any other factors is just such a bizarre idea counter to nearly all real-world evidence.

Don’t get me wrong: I don’t think adults should be dating minors. Not at all. There’s a reason minors are protected, and a good one. But the idea that a 21-year-old and a 32-year-old are some totally different species is so fucking bizarre to me that I can’t even express how strange it seems. How can people believe utter claptrap like that?

By the by, a lot of women date men older than they are because older guys tend to have their shit together and be less abusive than dudes their own age.

Personally I’m really glad I dated a 25-year-old when I was 19, and a 38-year-old when I was 25. Some of the best dating experiences of my life. I think everyone — men and women — should do this. And I’m glad I have younger Gen Z friends now.

Fuck modern liberalism. Assclowns.