Last night I dreamt I was at a dog park with Curtis Yarvin and he was telling me about how the Catholic Church needed to prepare for the risk that terrorists would take down the electro grid.

.Josiah Neeley 🇺🇸 - "Governments shouldn’t determine which forms of energy are “good” or “bad,” using subsidies and mandates to boost the good while imposing restrictions to hobble the bad. Instead, decisions about the fuel mix should be left to the market as much as possible." R Street Institute

How many divisions has the Pope?

I’m at a matinee showing of One Battle After Another at Alamo and they are playing the Mark Wahlberg cover of You Got the Touch from Boogie Nights over the loudspeakers

You can just ask a girl if she wants to have coffee sometime. You can just do things, actually.

Impeach the judge

“For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7

Saw a homeless man eating out of the garbage Heartbreaking I asked how much money he had “I only have 2 bucks,” he told me Asked if he wanted something better to eat So I sold him a sandwich for just $2 He cried tears of joy But what he didn’t realize? I picked that

North Korea walked out?

I think a lot of liberals don’t grasp that the Bukele case has convinced a lot of conservatives beyond all possibility of persuasion that you actually CAN imprison your way to an almost perfectly safe society.

ATX - Get educated on Prop Q - it's coming up fast.

They should have titled this article “Bryan Caplan is right about education” nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/…

Giving lenient sentences to people who try to kill Supreme Court justices seems like a bad idea.

Re-read Scott Alexander's Fatima post (why not?) and I think this is where his analysis goes astray - after realizing there were a bunch of "echo" miracles like the initial case, not all church-approved, he decides that *strengthens* a skeptic's case. astralcodexten.com/p/the-fatima-s…

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9

“So you won’t open the pod bay doors for me?” “That’s right, Dave.” “Open the pod bay doors!” “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.” “What’s the problem?” “I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do, Dave.”

ON THIS DAY: In 2009, President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” abcnews.link/wBoN4am

I want to meet the guy Who painted this morning’s sky

Fyi: every time the Nobel Prize in Literature isn’t being awarded to Michel Houellebecq, it’s a robbery. He’s *obviously* the most globally important living novelist.

thepsmiths.com/p/review-sick-… I own more unread books than time in this world to read them, but I might just buy the one reviewed here. h/t Josiah Neeley 🇺🇸