One hidden little nugget: most priests ordained after a certain year can't stand Notre Dame football and actively root against them, mostly because of the "fumbles" regarding Catholic identity at the university. This University of Illinois grad from Nebraska says: finish strong, Penn State.

Look at it becoming all fashionable now, to say you're "free speech." In reality, the goal posts have shifted. What matters now is whether or not you have the ability to censor content in the first place.

I'd trust Nixon.

Sweet mercy, are the Bears bad. But it’ll all be over soon.

Just noticed "Don't Look Back" is on Criterion Channel, so I'll roll it for the 8,000th viewing. Dylan wears fame about as well as I handle non-EEE shoes, which is what makes this great.

Watching from the sidelines, what's going on over at Elon's X is worse than what happened when it was publicly traded. Booting people because corporations with advertising dollars had a knife to your throat? Problematic but understandable. Booting people because they hurt your ego? Horribly childish way to betray your supposed ideals.

You know Elon stepped in it when Sam Hyde is forced to border on seriousness for a while.

Jimmy Carter. Perhaps a better man than president, which begs the question: can a good man wield power in the modern landscape? St. Louis IX, ora pro nobis.

Too many stories of Bluesky arbitrarily banning people because they don't meet the status quo over there. Hate to say it, but they're sealing their own fate.

The postal update you never want to see. The statement about it still being on the way looms like a threat.