I love how he gets sad-eyes when the government does public health measures and happy eyes when the government funds war and apartheid in Israel.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
Bret Stephens should be forced to eat maggots for three years for just about everything he's ever wrote.
I love after the 2018 election when he was in such a hurry to shit on libs that he wrote how it was a disappointing performance and how they needed to reach across the aisle and then they wound up winning 40 seats and Nate Silver called him a moron basically
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 February 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
Elizabeth Koch is a part of the vilified Koch dynasty. Worrying about what people think pushed her to the brink of insanity.Now, she wants to help people understand their debilitating "Perception Boxes." She spoke to me for her first big profile:https://t.co/DVKxmifHm8— Brooks Barnes (@brooksbarnesNYT) February 23, 2023
I would not read that for less than $500 up front.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 February 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
the end of that article's first arc is a new frontier in cringe -- it's two acts:
I.
Or you may have the opposite reaction: It must be really, really hard — eye roll — to be an heiress to one of the biggest fortunes ever accumulated, who graduated from an Ivy League university (Princeton) and is now married to a successful biotech entrepreneur. They recently vacationed in Bali.When Ms. Koch first came on my radar, I was firmly in the second camp.A publicist named Scott Rowe had called to propose an article on Ms. Koch and her nonprofit organization, Unlikely Collaborators, which is all about self-investigation. According to its website, the organization is dedicated to the creation of “provocative experiences that help you face who you think you are.” The site adds, “Our experiences use a process of self-investigation that encompasses principles and practices from eastern and western thought, meditation, psychology, and neuroscience — designed to expand your understanding of self, others, and the whole damned world.”Oh, brother.
When Ms. Koch first came on my radar, I was firmly in the second camp.
A publicist named Scott Rowe had called to propose an article on Ms. Koch and her nonprofit organization, Unlikely Collaborators, which is all about self-investigation. According to its website, the organization is dedicated to the creation of “provocative experiences that help you face who you think you are.” The site adds, “Our experiences use a process of self-investigation that encompasses principles and practices from eastern and western thought, meditation, psychology, and neuroscience — designed to expand your understanding of self, others, and the whole damned world.”
Oh, brother.
II.
“I know this is a lot to throw at people,” Ms. Koch said, apparently reading my mind. “Let’s go back to Perception Box. That’s where it begins and ends.”She jumped to her feet and started writing on a white board, calling out each word with a flourish in a demonstration of one of her workshops.“I don’t matter.”“I’m not good enough.”“I’m bad.”She asked me to envision a person — a writer, perhaps. This person misses deadlines because they are “constantly worrying about making it perfect,” she said. “It has to be better. It has to be better. No, no, no. Not there yet.” That thinking can be painful and ultimately even professionally paralyzing.Story continues below advertisementContinue reading the main story“That person is running a Perception Box story in their head,” she said, “and it’s an obvious one: I’m not good enough.”I grimaced and told her that I could be that writer.“Who are you still trying to please, and who are you still rebelling against?” she asked me, now firmly in teacher-student mode.I squirmed and thought about how it was really stupid of me to say no to that blanket.“Probably Daddy,” I said, almost in a whisper.
She jumped to her feet and started writing on a white board, calling out each word with a flourish in a demonstration of one of her workshops.
“I don’t matter.”
“I’m not good enough.”
“I’m bad.”
She asked me to envision a person — a writer, perhaps. This person misses deadlines because they are “constantly worrying about making it perfect,” she said. “It has to be better. It has to be better. No, no, no. Not there yet.” That thinking can be painful and ultimately even professionally paralyzing.Story continues below advertisementContinue reading the main story
“That person is running a Perception Box story in their head,” she said, “and it’s an obvious one: I’m not good enough.”
I grimaced and told her that I could be that writer.
“Who are you still trying to please, and who are you still rebelling against?” she asked me, now firmly in teacher-student mode.
I squirmed and thought about how it was really stupid of me to say no to that blanket.
“Probably Daddy,” I said, almost in a whisper.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 24 February 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
wow person who should be guillotined discovers CBT and mixes it with pop zen bs, so glad to be alive
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 24 February 2023 02:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/opinion/san-francisco-democrats-board-of-supervisors.html
“Even Democrats Like Me (Billionaires) Are Fed Up With San Francisco”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 27 February 2023 04:02 (one year ago) link
Another variation of the old “I am repulsed by poor people and poor people drug use, save our city”
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Monday, 27 February 2023 12:00 (one year ago) link
What It Means to Be Woke—Ross Douthat
― rob, Sunday, 19 March 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
best Madonna single
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 March 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
Trump allies are pressuring Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida to weigh in on the expected indictment.
Never Mind About Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis Has a Secret Theory of Trump
jesus christ
― rob, Monday, 20 March 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
Are we all excited by the chance to once more be irritated by NYT Iraq war articles, now that they are running anniversary pieces? We’ve already had one today that had several paragraphs on the CIA without one mention of torture.
― blatherskite, Monday, 20 March 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
it's funny, I was paying for my subscription through Paypal and I removed authorization to charge it like, over a month ago, but never got around to formally cancelling the subscription.
every other day I get emails like "Second to final warning - your subscription will be cancelled", "final warning - we will cancel your subscription if we don't receive payment!", "final warning again, we mean it this time!"....been happening for like a month, daily threats, and still they haven't cancelled it.
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
It's like cable or the Mafia, you don't get out except feet first.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
Check out the kicker in this despicable profile:
Ms. Statler agreed about Judge Kacsmaryk. “I just know he just has a real tender spot for caring for women,” she told The Times, “and particularly women who are pregnant.”
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 April 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
Any article about that judge that doesn't lead with "That piece of shit" is a bad article
― Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 April 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
What Happened to America? We Asked 12 People in Their 70s and 80s.
― rob, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
that “article” was so typical that it made me laugh— there might as well have been a quote about kicking a ball in the street. all of them seem to believe that people should just take the jobs that are offered and work them until they die. idiots.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
the headline alone feels like a lazy parody of what everyone already hates about their vox populi attempts
― rob, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
cheating b/c I did actually read this one, but was there really no one in editorial who saw this and had a dim recollection that the UK is—infamously I would have thought—not in the EU?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/opinion/microsoft-activision-ftc-antitrust-grail-eu.html
(and yeah their bios should have been enough of a red flag)
― rob, Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
this person is utterly useless
https://i.imgur.com/f9FYV5j.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
lol I saw that and was so dispirited I couldn't even post it here
― rob, Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
Chris Christie Is Doing Something Very, Very Important
― rob, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
Christopher F. RufoD.E.I. Programs are Getting in the Way of Liberal Education
― rob, Thursday, 27 July 2023 12:15 (one year ago) link
good lord
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 July 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
I'm embarrassed to admit I am still capable of being mildly shocked at them platforming such an unambiguous and outspoken racist
― rob, Thursday, 27 July 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
I know everyone needs a rufover their heads but do we really have to let this guy write op-eds
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 July 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
at least put a pic of him under the byline with the caveat - "Warning, this piece was written by a likely Klansman" or something
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 July 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
WaPo not to be outdone:
What happened in the decade before crime rose? ‘Broken windows’ policing stopped.Opinion by Charles Murray
― rob, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
Here are five key findings from a Times examination of Ron DeSantis’s educational backstory.
― rob, Sunday, 20 August 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link
I loved this for the big town small town angle(?): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/business/media/kansas-newspaper-marion-county-record.html
― youn, Sunday, 20 August 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
Ross Douthat
James Bond Is Now ‘Woke’
― rob, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
james bomb trans now
― van der gragt generator (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
I did think of James when I read that thing on some other thread about cishet men only wanting to sip their little drinks from phallic glasses
anyway, fuck Douthat for stealing my screenplay idea
― rob, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
total clickbait headline on that Douthat piece, which mentions a new Bond novel in the lede but only as a launchpad for some meandering thoughts about UK and Canadian politics
― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
how does one doubt a hat
― Dinglebert Humperstink (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/8f/94/82/8f9482771a7a3b8bc13dbcb1551f7e4c.jpg
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
is this the new bond by charlie higson of revered "post-punk" clatterers the higsons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bec8XIycg_w
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
pamela paul column about freddie de boer’s book
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 September 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
they had lunch together!
― jaymc, Thursday, 7 September 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
tmi
― mh, Thursday, 7 September 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.
some incredible nyt pitchbot-ass false equivalencing in this one:
"After Iowa banned gender-affirming medical care for minors, criminalizing their son’s treatments, the Nobles — lifelong Iowans — concluded they had to get out."
"Jesse Jordan, of Tennessee, said he and his fiancée had considered moving to Oregon after Tennessee leaders adopted a near-total abortion ban, with no exception for a fatal fetal abnormality. “It has become kind of unthinkable for us to pursue a pregnancy in this state,” Mr. Jordan said."
vs.
“One thing I do like about Missouri, there’s lots of American flags,” Mr. Huckins said as he steered around a traffic circle where the Stars and Stripes flapped crisply on a pole. “In Portland, the American flag was offensive.”
"Matthew Krall, an accountant, has no regrets about moving his family in 2019 to Tennessee from California, where he was frustrated by that state’s Democratic governor and liberal policies. When Mr. Krall and his neighbors discuss politics now in his conservative suburb outside Nashville, “it’s more of an agreeable conversation,” he said."
― rob, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:59 (eleven months ago) link
god this thing just gets worse and worse. it turns out that the portlanders who left OR supposedly because of the city's politics--the entire thesis of this terrible article--have *grandchildren* in the area of MO they moved to lmao
― rob, Saturday, 7 October 2023 17:01 (eleven months ago) link
lol okay
While there is no precise count of how many Americans have relocated because of politics and social issues, interviews with demographers and people who have moved or are considering moving, as well as a review of social-media postings and polling, show the phenomenon is real.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 October 2023 21:46 (eleven months ago) link
"some people are saying"
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 7 October 2023 21:51 (eleven months ago) link
TEACH THE CONTROVERSY
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 7 October 2023 22:27 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/mlaffBT.jpg
at the risk of defending david french, the column itself isn't horrible. but evidently the NYT's editors want people to think it is
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 October 2023 08:30 (eleven months ago) link
Not All Karens
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 October 2023 11:48 (eleven months ago) link
no the column is pretty horrible.
― a (waterface), Monday, 9 October 2023 12:09 (eleven months ago) link
But just as older Americans can have an obligation to let go of professions and power, young Americans can have obligations to hold on to their elders, to treasure them rather than shove them aside. Ancient wisdom can speak to modern conflicts, and ever since the onset of the generational conflicts during the pandemic, I’ve pondered a key part of the Westminster Larger Catechism, an almost 400-year-old statement of Protestant theology. It takes an expansive view of the Fifth Commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” The catechism asserts that father and mother don’t merely refer to your biological parents, but to “all superiors in age and gifts.”
this is just shit
― a (waterface), Monday, 9 October 2023 12:12 (eleven months ago) link
yeah that column was execrable
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 9 October 2023 13:59 (eleven months ago) link