A sign, not a man

At the greatest college in the world, Professor Timothy Burke explains why Donald Trump gets support even though he is a mediocre player at a fixed game who doesn’t bother to remember which lies he’s told, running an operation so inept that it allowed his wife to stand up before a national audience and deliver a speech that was transparently plagiarized from the one given by Michele Obama four years ago.

Looking forward

We will soon have another book of the excellent writings of Teresa Nielsen Hayden.

Motivation

Scott Alexander on pushing and pulling goals

Tingling tailwords

As we know, when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Dr. Chuck Tingle has become a full-time smutmonger. (Another famous quote for this literary giant, addressed to the Puppies: “Do not call up that which you cannot put down.”)

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