Zohran Mamdani: Excellent for New York City; awful for my insomnia.
I took the rest of the week off from work! Today, I’m celebrating the victory of Democratic Socialism to visiting a monument to Oligarchic Capitalism.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Nov 05, 2025 6:17:11 am PST #10045 of 10047
hwæt
Trudy Booth - Nov 05, 2025 6:32:56 am PST #10046 of 10047
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
If Mamdani can pull off any of this we'll be much better off. Its certainly a sea change I appreciate! If we manage to have actual elections next year they could go very well indeed.
I was at the Frick a few weeks ago! Several rooms are basically as they were and I spent the whole time in them going "this was this guy's house !"
-t - Nov 05, 2025 7:29:44 am PST #10047 of 10047
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good plan, Tom (aside from the insomnia part, I hope you can get away from that)
We have an atmospheric river sweeping through today. I very much want to curl up in a blanket and drink tea and read What Stalks the Deep and be happy I don’t have to go outside but stupid work keeps expecting me to do work.