now do this in absolute dollar, rather than percentage terms, if you really wanna be scandalized.

instead of just "following", there should be two activities, "following" and "monitoring", yielding two distinct sets of public relationships. at a technical level, they should be identical. socially, they might be interpreted differently.

first time i ever saw a jimmy kimmel monologue i think. not bad.

i'm an old man and i am cheered by things that recall my youth. i just want to hear Jay Powell say the words "irrational exuberance". you're basically saying it. the circumstances are similar. use the words.

i say * the rapture did happen * we all made it * we are now on a better Earth II ...we'll see!

Not enthusiastic about "friend-saving" Argentina, is @mamomvpy.bsky.social marketmonetarist.com/2025/09/22/a... (me neither, but it means more from Lars, as he'd not disagree as much as I would on Milei's economic policy ideas. see also a prior piece on Milei marketmonetarist.com/2025/07/14/c...)

was Putin mean?

miss manners used to make the point that etiquette is in fact very important, that if we didn’t have rules of etiquette to lubricate and regulate everyday life, we’d have to use the law and state for that, and we’d not very much like the society that would yield.

one way to understand the LLM boom is that we have finally, actually, invented Ask Jeeves.

“Or, they might learn the lessons of the FHA windfall profits scandal. To once again quote the 1954 Senate report, there is an alternative to subsidizing speculation: ‘It is better that the Government build such projects itself.’”

i would like to see how the Chotiner interview with Jesus Christ would go. (today being the rapture, it might be very timely!)

i suppose there might exist a liberalism so catholic it would encompass Adrian Vermeule. but it probably wouldn’t be what most of us mean by liberalism.

youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g

anyone wonder if the writers might be up to something, having the US promise to bail out Argentina while the price of gold goes 🚀

any advance reporting from europe on the rapture?

i see people are mocking him, but it’s the biggest breakthrough since ivermectin.

has anyone else noticed that acetaminophen sounds a whole lot like azerbaijan?

basically the world’s policeman is now a mob guy.

oh.

representative democracy can be good democracy, but it has to be participatory representative democracy. representation on autopilot becomes corruption however noble the intentions of the representatives.