I Believe This

20 million Americans still watched Seinfeld on Netflix in the first half of 2026.

That means the reason folks aren't watching Hollywood films and TV has nothing to do with video games, the internet, or anything else -- it's all content quality.

If I were in charge of Hollywood, I'd fire every executive in town tomorrow and hire random people from the street. They couldn't do worse. 

Start Investing In Ourselves Again

In my perception, the US stopped investing in ourselves a long time ago and thought we could succeed by consuming instead of building.   

All one needs to do is look at what fields our "top" graduates go into. Hardly any of them build anything except software; Silicon Valley, and that's just one narrow type of thing we use in this world.

Weird Shit

A lot of weird stuff is happening -- women supporting Lindsay Clancy and throwing ice in tubs -- all the psychologists must be sleeping on the job.

The Leftovers

These women supporting the child murderer seem straight out of The Leftovers. 

I might need to move.

Nice Kid

Details on this Karmelo Anthony kid...

If you listen, people tell you who they are.

I'm So Confused

Is this really a thing- women filming themselves throwing ice into bathtubs and posting it online?

True, Evidence Can Be Found on Reddit 

If Lindsay Clancy had methodically strangled and killed three puppies, instead of her own children, almost all of the women defending her now would instead be calling for her execution.

Dreams

I'd like to be more like the people who just write 4 or 5 stars on letterboxd for all the movies they watch. I think that's an achievable goal. 

Liberals

I'd be more sympathetic to liberal social and legal positions if the vast majority didn't always turn out to be lies and misrepresentations.

For instance - remember that guy, Kimar Abrego Garcia? The MS-13 guy? Well, the above link tells us why they thought he was a human trafficker. In other words, he was.

This Cofnas Clown

Now, everyone wants to discredit Cofnas...  Polite suggestion: maybe catch Arday's lies before the clown does? 

When the institutions behave like fools, we become reliant on the kooks to speak the truth. Another case in point: Royce White and Enis Kanter. 

Logging

TV: Silo S1

Pretty good, actually. 

Sympathy for Arday

Much ink was spilled over how the world mistreated Arday and thus contributing to his suicide. Many folks offer their own accounting of blame. Bravo to them. Curiously, no one did the same over Jeffrey Epstein. Why not? Was not his suicide a similar scenario of intense public shame? 

I can hear the retorts - Epstein was a criminal; Arday was but a fraud. Yes, on a moral accounting ledger, there seems to be a difference. But then I see these other things out there - the requests for empathy from therapists and other leftists about this woman who murdered her three children, the understanding and fandom around Luigi, and the comparable *lack* of sympathy for Charlie Kirk's death. And I wonder...are any of these moral questions, really? I'm not even sure they are political. My suspicion is that they are aesthetic. 

My sense is AOC might ride her newly found singledom (and suggested availability) into the Presidency and Taylor Swift will never be as popular again. But if AOC were to get fat and ugly, she will lose her popularity and Mandami will take up her mantle.  

Jew, Kurd, or Uyghur

Who would you rather be?

Two ethnic groups without a state, beloved by the international community. One ethnic group with a state, power, and hated by the international community.

Get it if you can.

This Is No Joke Pretty Rad

Kristin Bell shows up at a Savannah Bananas game and does some Frozen song and Dirty Dancing. 

This is what Hollywood should be doing. Touching grass, meeting Americans where they are, doing things big and small and fun and silly. I don't know why in the hell we ever thought it was our business to change the social order, comment on politics, or become this vehicle for social change. Who asked for it?