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

While I'm waiting for your info, I'll deal with your other two points. Point 1 addresses violence by Jews, which is totally irrelevant. Maybe you didn't notice this was written about Islam and Christianity, with no mention of Judaism.Point 2 is on hold for now. Re: point 3, it's great that there are successful female directors in Iran, but they are forced to wear hijabs by the so-called morality police.There are arrests and punishment of women activists and critics, and widespread surveillance and policing of women’s bodies. These all constitute a denial of basic universal rights. Are you sure you're not really Roger Waters, Sven?

I'm disappointed you didn't tell us what the Christian equivalent of ISIS is. Please share your information.I know it's going to be good.

I always enjoyed reading a PJ article, but never read one of his books. It sounds like he thought Trump was a symptom (not a factor). I think part of Trump's appeal is his bluntness. Same with Meloni.

1. Pound for pound there is more genocidal violence and bloodlust coming out of Judaism right now than other religion. Your 'Progresisves' are holding their punches there as well--perhaps for similar reasons to the ones you claimed above for Islam. 2. "Christianity has nothing in any way resembling ISIS" is a real banger. 3. The whole 'women being oppressed in Iran' line has become little more than histerical moralizing to sell bombing runs. On the net, yeah maybe, you can get away saying that, but go through their society and start doing apple to apple comparisons with our own and you'll come upon peculiar contrasts here and there--for instance, there are way more successful film directors in Iranian cinema who are female, women there are generally more confident in their mathematical abilities, etc.

You can't really go wrong with PJ O'Rourke.

If Trump got done any of the things he talks about, driving a stake into the heart of the DeepState, if he did the kinds of things his followers like Elon, DOGE peeps, or DataRepublican expose, he would be the most libertarian president since the founding, and one of the most libertarian "rulers" to ever govern on planet earth in all of human history. The people who lie about him or concern themselves with his many warts are simply fools. You kind of made me want to read this book Chris.

Bench warrants are generally tied to misdemeanors, traffic offenses, or court-order violations (like failure to appear or probation violations), rather than new or serious felony charges. This is what happened at Ruby Ridge, the topic at hand.

When it's a felony charge, they will make a home visit. Of course.

Scroll down to #14 on the provided link to see the descriptions of serious crimes. A few crimes not on the list but should be are hit and run accidents that cause severe property damage and/or injury and counterfeiting. ...https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/34/11103

So what serious criminal charge are you referring to?

Whether a home or workplace visit by a cop is "likely" after a judge issues a bench warrant depends entirely on the seriousness of the crime. A serious crime would make it overwhelming likely that a home or workplace visit would happen.

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

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.