Whole lotta punctuation in that penultimate paragraph but, if there's an error, I couldn't find it. What makes "The Athletic" content awful? I mostly like it (for hockey, baseball and football).

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.

Putting some of our disagreements over Chomsky aside this article is well written and I appreciate your viewpoints on this CJ. Whether I fully agree with your articles or not they are always well worth reading and they come from an interesting perspective.

There is no denying Chomsky’s work at exposing U.S government and media propaganda the problem I have with him is that he himself was an agenda driven propagandist and as I stated in my previous comment suffered from “selective outrage.” He denied the Cambodian genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in which a third of the adult population was systematically wiped out and dismissed first hand accounts from books like ‘Murder Of A Gentle Land’ and ‘Cambodia Year Zero’ calling the later book a “third rate propaganda tract.” Those books proved to be largely accurate in their depiction of the massacre occurring in Cambodia but focusing on the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge would overshadow Chomsky’s agenda of portraying the U.S as solely responsible for the chaos in Southeast Asia so he downplayed and white washed the genocide taking place even peddling Khmer Rouge propaganda to try to make his case. The truth is the U.S deserves much criticism for their misguided foreign policy in Southeast Asia and the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Pol Pot was one of the most murderous regimes in history based on the percentage of the population that was murdered. Any fair observer with the evidence we had at the time would come to this conclusion but Chomsky was not a fair observer he was a “manipulative scum bag” who put his own agenda over truth. The revelations coming out with the release of the Epstein files proves this even more....As far as the Sikorsky helicopters I stand by my previous comment that Chomsky’s analogy was off target. The Sikorsky Comanche helicopter is a formidable military attack helicopter. The Comanche is a formidable warrior tribe that specialized in raids and attacks. That is the only relevant analogy.

Not sure my conclusion is that Chomsky "was a manipulative scum bag who deserves to be kicked to the curb". As you say, he got some things right, and Manufacturing Consent remains the seminal work on propaganda and the media. I also think you've misunderstood the Sikorsky observation. He's not saying that the helicopters were given those names because the tribes are victims. He's saying that it is a measure of how propagandized we are as a population that we don't recognise how "off" it is that they are given those names, given their eventual fate. If Jew and Gypsies had fought harder, would that make them eligible for use as name tags on German military equipment? My revelation, which was very real and very profound, was about how my own perceptions had been manipulated, and Chomsky's observation - which was just a passing line in a much longer lecture - helped me to understand that.

Good for you CJS for allowing truth to be your North Star even if it means coming to the realization that your former idol and father figure was a manipulative scum bag who deserves to be kicked to the curb...Chomsky who suffered from selective outrage got some things right but he also got many things wrong. A minor case in point is the example of the Sikorsky helicopters being named after Native American tribes and in particular the Comanche and Chomsky saying that it is akin to German manufacturers naming their equipment “Jews” or “Gypsies” because they like Native American tribes are also victims. This is a distortion of the truth by Chomsky and it is typical of the deceitful way he operates. The Sikorsky helicopters were named after the Comanche not because they were victims but because they were a fierce warrior tribe who fought above their weight class against the European settlers and were particularly brutal including to other Native American tribes. Boeing named one of their helicopters after the Apache who were another aggressive warrior tribe for the same reason. Sikorsky and Boeing are in a sense paying homage to the Comanche and Apache for being formidable warriors.. A better example would be German manufacturers naming their equipment after Huns or Vandals whose rampaging tactics resembled the Comanche and Apache...

Pedophelia involves attraction to children 12 and under. The Epstein operation involved what's known as "underage" girls—i.e. under the age of consent, which varies widely from place to place. For example, it's 16 in Japan. Not sure why so many can't get the distinction, but repeating it here is just more spreading of misinformation.

Great article. Never heard of him. I'm in Lexington KY for business and my hotel room overlooks Rupp Arena. A huge electronic sign on the arena announces his upcoming show at Rupp. I had to find out who this guy is. I live in rural North Georgia. He looks and sounds like many every day Joe Blow Georgians I know. There are at least 5000 Bert look-and act a-likes at every single University of Georgia home football games. All drunk, of course.

Two people have tried to assassinate Trump and one assassinated Charlie Kirk, but the danger is on the right! Preach, brother.

A look at how far things have gone, by Radley Balko. https://open.substack.com/pub/radleybalko/p/the-constitution-is-not-a-bargaining?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=tn2fl

Sven perhaps you should seek help?

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.

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.