Noblesse oblige used to be recognized as the racist paternalism it is. Secularize it, rebrand it as allyship, and suddenly it’s a virtue. Same skeleton. The pagan babies just got older.
Chris Abraham
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She’s the most Karen pca.st/episode/3…
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Virginia votes April 21 on whether to let the legislature redraw congressional maps mid-decade. The ballot language sounds tidy. The actual question is whether you fight partisan gerrymandering by doing it back. I voted no.
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This is huge.
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Painfully beautifully written and read. Lovely lilt.
Douglas Stuart reads his story “A Private View,” from the April 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. pca.st/episode/1…
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You can always hack and adapt your tools to best work with your process. This is kludgy. I superglued the chopped top onto the shaft of the aluminum Bic.
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I simply have always called this moral adaptation to local cultures. Seems simple & self-evident to me.
Today we talk about the book Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry by Alasdair Macintyre. pca.st/episode/4…
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The Second Amendment doesn't grant you the right to bear arms. It prohibits the government from infringing on a right you already had. That's not a technicality—that's the entire point.
Here’s what the “your gun right is imaginary” crowd consistently gets wrong: they treat the Second Amendment as if it’s a permission slip. As if Congress sat down, invented a right out of nothing, and handed it to you. That’s not what the Bill of …
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The Second Amendment doesn’t grant you the right to bear arms. It prohibits the government from infringing on a right you already had. That’s not a technicality—that’s the entire point. davisvanguard.org/2026/04/s…
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Lena Dunham Is Still Trying to Figure Out Why People Hated Her So Much pca.st/episode/7…
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Announcer pronounced omnipotence as omni-potence. What do you think about that?
NPR News: 04-11-2026 3PM EDT pca.st/episode/e…
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I love paranoid hyperbole. As if Liberty and Freedom weren’t equally compromised during COVID and under Biden as well. And under Obama. That’s exactly why the kaiju Donald J Trump rose from the ocean. It’s a “freedom from” versus “freedom to” dichotomy.
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I had a full double-take. I was sure New York had moved the age of consent to 18, and finding out it’s still 17 scrambled my wiring. Then I remembered I grew up in Hawaii, where it was 14 until 2001 and is now 16, and suddenly my sense of what’s “normal” felt completely unreliable.
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Nobody convinced society of anything. Competition over collaboration is emergent—it bubbles up, not down. The moment trust becomes the norm, exploitation attacks it. The pickpocket and the Ponzi schemer are the same person at different zoom levels. It’s a Mandelbrot.
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They’re so committed to the Hitler bit they won’t even take the free Napoleon joke. It’s right there. Nobody pivoted.
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Is this happening? My mail-in vote in America did have a “no” option.
Virginia County REMOVED “NO” Option from Referendum Ballot. Sheriff Is Investigating. youtube.com/watch
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I’m sure glad that this new comedy on Peacock isn’t too on the nose 🦚
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Do you think this’ll become more common? Do you think it already is? Buy the good insurance.
A warehouse worker recorded of himself setting fire to the warehouse he worked at while stating they “should’ve paid us enough to live” youtube.com/watch
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Turns Out the Elites Like the Administrative State Better than Democracy
The New York Times claims that the “administrative state”—that is, governance by unelected bureaucrats—protects our country and enhances democracy. pca.st/episode/9…
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Will Ireland have a civil war before the USA and because of US?
Ireland is a good reminder that the self-appointed vanguard of the proletariat loves the proletariat mostly as an abstraction. Right now, actual workers in Ireland, truckers, farmers, and other fuel-dependent people, have been out disrupting roads, cities, and supply lines over …