Alex Falcone

Hawk

It won't be long before they can just give us a list of foods they haven't fucked up yet.

From the FDA website:

Amanda's Friday

Overheard

Big Ag companies finally got the de-regulation from their coin-operated politicians, but they couldn't play it cool, even for little while. They immediately went with, "Yeah - now that we're free of all that cumbersome safety monitoring, we're gonna fuck up your food with shit, pesticides, and various industrial materials like glass and heavy metals. And why do we do this? Because fuck you, that's why."

The USS Lincoln Problem

Boots are for feet - not to eat.

Aaron Parnas

Wait just a damned minute - I've got questions.

• Hegseth can't go anywhere without his mommy?
• Because he's never learned to self-regulate?
• What grade is that little prick in now?
• What in the blue-eyed, buck-naked fuck are we doing?

JoJo From Jerz

"...Trump's flowers-in-the-attic fluffer..."

Sarah Matthews Rebuts

Let's Do Debt

There's A Reason For That

There has to be a rebirth of expertise, and that requires a rebirth of respect for people's real abilities - and a resurgence of actual common sense.

Not the phony kind of common sense that so many conservatives and libertarians are trying to substitute for knowledge because they've spent so much time convincing themselves they don't need to know anything - they just need to adopt a radical skepticism that allows them to feel smart without having to do any real work.

I can take myself as a fair example.

I'm a generalist. A generalist is someone who knows less and less about more and more until he knows practically nothing about almost everything.

After 73 years, I'm the intellectual equivalent of the Platte River - my knowledge base is a mile wide and an inch deep. Too thick to drink and too thin to plow.

But because I actually know quite a bit about a few things, and because I'm a good salesman, I can spin it all into giving people the impression that I'm smarter than I actually am.

If I'm not careful, my ego gets in the way - sometimes to the point where I can flop all the way over into Cliff Clavin territory. Fake lord forgive me my sins.

So I have to be careful not to overstep my limitations. I have to look for - and listen for - people who carry real bona fides on a given subject, and shift my conversation from declaring what I know (or think I know) to a more inquisitive thing where I can put what I think on the table, and ask if there's something I've missed, or I've gotten wrong, or if there's something new I can learn.

So anyway, the main point is to remember what's supposed to help us maintain a certain humility:

The more we learn, the more we have to understand how much more there is for us to learn.