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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's also that they can't admit to having been conned.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The cheaper the crook, the more originalist the patter.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On the one hand, YES! THE PLAYOFFS! On the other hand, the Yankees are in the playoffs.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Religion is negotiable, didn't you know that?
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who ever thought they believed in human rights?
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I read those in college and literally couldn't believe it.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I prefer George C. Scott.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About 30 years ago, the college I taught at sent me to a one-week intellectual powwow in Maryland, chaired by none other than Charles van Doren. He would have been in his late 60s, and seemed faded and insubstantial. Nice enough gent, though.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jesus this is stupid even by Trump's standards.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sebastian Cabot was great in that episode.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think we need a new acronym for this sort of thing. I pick WABOD, standing for "What A Bunch Of Dicks"
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I remember when Five Seasons came out. I must have read it cover-to-cover a dozen times. I can still remember a few passages.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here's my favorite SDJ, a song originally written for him on Broadway: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl2W... Sinatra's version is pretty good too.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There's only another way if they want there to be another way.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just tell the truth.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What's the Constitution?
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You know the answer.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Douthat's mere existence is actually a good argument for artificial intelligence.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I live among evangelical Christians. Some nice, some not. But they're all utterly unthinking and almost all utterly bigoted. And if an evangelical Christian is going to become prominent in any way, they have to cater to the unthinking and the bigotry. So if they're on TV, they're pieces of shit.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Exactly.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That's the whole shooting match. Whether one agrees or disagrees, the position that stupid=evil depends entirely on that point.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
His rapacious greed.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know why.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
One can certainly argue that Shakespeare had failings; in fact, a number of great writers have done so. But in order to accuse him of failings you have to 1) read his works 2) understand them 3) have clear criteria for what constitutes good literature. Think these guys are remotely capable of that?
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It will get them approximately zero votes. We Jews have been around way too long not to know who the real antisemites are. As for the goyim, they either support antisemitism or they don't care.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"the people who most loudly proclaim allegiance to those creeds are the biggest adherents to his heresy." In the history of the world, when has it ever been otherwise?
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For obvious reasons, the movie Home Alone 2 should be mentioned as little as possible (sort of like Macbeth), but the moment where the Grinch transforms into Tim Curry is a high point of Western culture.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can only be betrayed if you put your trust in someone. No one ever deserves to be betrayed by anybody, but to put your trust in Trump is so monumentally stupid that it practically asks for betrayal.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Conservatism used to be a respectable political philosophy. Beginning with Reagan, it became just 1) bigotry and 2) making the rich richer. Now under Trump, it's fascism. Why would anyone hire conservative scholars?
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As a Met fan, where do you stand on Jefry Yan?
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Because when women are playing sports, they're 1) enjoying themselves, and 2) achieving things without the slightest need of men.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I'd argue the film is more traditional gender-wise. Lillian Gish's character is a mother defending her brood (interestingly, a failed mother with her real offspring), and she's also the classic farm-woman-with-a-shotgun.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ex-Obama people are like Obama. That's your answer.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You had me at "surf-guitar."
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is like the right bitching that they're frozen out of universities. As a retired professor, I've seen some leftward gatekeeping, some of it unfair. But conservatism, at this point in time, is nothing other than bigotry and making the rich richer. Why would you ever hire these people to teach?
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's all about the Benjamins.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I would have shunned the labor force all my life if I could have gotten away with it.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Or any unthoughtful liberal.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It's all about the Benjamins.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
When a self-professed devout Christian tells you it's not clear who the bad guys are, you know he's 1) desperate and 2) bullshitting.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Or, in other words, Christianity.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
When a professed Christian says "I no longer know who are the good guys or the bad guys," I reach for my...
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A "scripted drama" about baseball players? God help us.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wagner superfans are notoriously difficult to please.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I don't think they misread anything. I think they just wanted money and power, saw an immediate source, and grabbed it. They didn't, in fact couldn't, think about anything else.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Of course, that would require Obama to give a crap about anyone but himself.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Or, as Elon himself would have said: "Exterminate all the brutes!"
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Since Dobbs, everything they've done and said has been equally telling.
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petergoldstein.bsky.social @petergoldstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In Russia, military protests you!
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