This has got to be one of the most cruelly ironic headlines I’ve ever seen:

Ein Volk, etc.

Jonah Goldberg:

Remember how after 9/11 Katha Pollitt told her 13-year-old daughter she couldn’t fly the American flag, because “the flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war”? Pollitt was wrong. But this administration is making her seem less so.

By hijacking the language of patriotism for this nationalistic, statist, militaristic horseshit, the right is picking up the baton of the left by signaling to millions of Americans that America’s heritage—and the people who talk about it—are precisely the kinds of people who see the American flag the same way she did.

We must take to the streets

The lies spewing from Kristi Noem’s mouth about the bullshit “weaponization” of the murdered Minneapolis woman’s vehicle demand a mass response by the citizens of this country. Watch the video. Lies. Lies. Lies.

Go Right Ahead, Mr. Chairman

Tom Friedman in the NYTimes makes an excellent point: Trump’s toppling of Maduro provides Xi another precedent for invading Taiwan.

The Great Jeff Galloway

From the NYTimes: “50 Years Ago, He Was an Olympian. At 80, He’s Just as Happy to Finish Last. | Jeff Galloway, who popularized the run-walk-run method, is determined to complete one more marathon.” Update: It was not to be. Galloway died Feb. 25, 2026. Here’s a tribute.

Honey New Year!

Last day at the law firm.

15,051 days.

Already off the website. 🤷‍♂️

Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. (!)

Giotto’s Stars

Light the lamp!

… Not the rat! Light the lamp, not the rat!

RIP Joe Ely (and Joe Strummer, too)

Joe Ely was so important to Texas music and especially to me when I lived in Austin in the early ’80s. This Texas Monthly tribute by Michael Hall is great.