“The Koch brothers just pulled a family from a burning car. Here’s why we should be concerned…”

About this James Younger thing, how exactly do you determine a 7yo is a girl other than that person have XX chromosomes and the unique organs of a female? Especially how do you determine that to the certainty you would give the child harmful drugs?

People are outraged that Trump is Trump, not because he said a particular thing, and they just use whatever he said latest to again express that outrage.

Making a new streaming service for coding-related programming. It’s called C+++

The only way to always support Trump or always oppose Trump is to surrender many of your principles.

I’m still trying to find good ways to market my book Hellbender. How much does it cost to put flashing videos on the dark web?

You have to support the terrible people. They’re the only thing between you and the horrible people.

The final season of Halt & Catch Fire was strange. Just felt like it meandered a lot.

My political analysis is that if all the time and money wasted on analyzing which terrible politician is slightly less terrible than the others had instead been invested in other sectors of the economy, we’d all have jet packs and lasers guns by now.

When you are little, you want to buy all the video games but you don’t have the money to buy all the video games. When you are adult, you can afford all the video games but don’t have time to play them. Such is the condition of man.
I feel like I could write another chapter of Ecclesiastes on this.

The left want a candidate who is really smart but also able to suppress that smartness so as not to tell them that all the big things they really want are stupid and unworkable.

I’ve never paid enough attention to see what happens when an album drops these days. So it just goes straight to Spotify and such for everybody now?
My experience with Kanye West is knowing for the longest time he was a superstar but then had someone play all his top songs and then became frustrated that not even one was vaguely familiar.
If someone is a superstar, I expect to have heard at least one song through osmosis — like it was used in ads or something. With Kanye, only one was familiar because Weird Al used it in a polka medley.
Later, I decided to try to become familiar with modern music by listening to all of the current top 25 songs on Spotify. It all blended together — except for two. One was pretty good, and the other was so bad I skipped it. Both were Kanye.
Anyway, listening to his new album to be a part of culture.
I expected Closed on Sundays to be kind of cheesy, but I kind of liked it.
Overall, I kind of liked the album Jesus Is King. Don’t know if it will rank up there with my all time favorite album (Flood by They Might Be Giants).
It was interesting enough that I listened through it a second time. I think my favorite was “Water.”

Got the biggest dis from my baby son. My wife was holding him and he was smiling at me, but when I reached for him, he quickly turned and clung to mommy tighter 🙁

I didn’t know what to expect with Jesus Is King. I thought it might be cheesy or just surface level religious, but it felt much deeper than that.

Star Wars Movies Ranked:
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars
3. Return of the Jedi

1. Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure

What makes The Last Jedi different than the prequels is how apparently a bunch of people conspired together to troll Star Wars fans and pretend to really like it. It seems mean, but I admire their dedication. Some of them never drop character.

I’m sorry, but for all its problems, none of the later Star Wars come anywhere near the greatness of Return of the Jedi. All the original trilogy are in a class by itself and it’s silly to rank them amongst the others.
And the Ewoks are great and you’re dumb.

Wearing my Babylon Bee hoodie, listening to Kanye, and going to Chick-fil-A — being a total pop culture Christian today.
Should probably fit in reading the Bible, tho

At the tee-ball fields, we weren’t watching our 4yo for a minute and she went to the concession stand, got a ring pop, and got an adult in line behind her to pay for it. We need to watch out for that one.
She’s kind of in this no-man’s-land being the second youngest of four. I’m guessing that will lead to a bit of independence.

With my son’s classic costume, I’m teaching him to correct people with “Actually, Frankenstein was the doctor. I’m Frankenstein’s monster.”
I’m sure he’ll get extra candy.

Man, you don’t want to be a terrorist killed while Trump is president. He’s going to make fun of you.

Mario cuts the bridge, sending Bowser into lava
he checks the Washington Post the next day
“Bowser, Austere Leader of the Koopa and Go-Kart Enthusiast, Dies”
Mario burns the paper with a fireball

No disrespect to the president, but with all his “fired like a dog” and “died like a dog” talk, if I were a shelter I would not let him adopt.

I am really curious how that WaPo headline happened. I doubt they’ll be forthcoming on it, though.

I know the euphemism often used for Winchester is “special,” but he certainly makes me feel special to be his dad.

He’s getting some forward movement down. He lifts up on his hands and knees and then launches himself forward about an inch. Often though, he’ll just lay on his stomach and spread out his legs and arms (as seen in the picture) like he’s trying to fly and then starts kicking.
It hasn’t worked so far, but he keeps trying so maybe he knows something I don’t know.

I keep seeing this thing about how we’re going to achieve gender equality in 208 years, but it seems really optimistic that men will birth half the babies by then.

I was on The Conservatarians podcast talking about satire, Snopes, writing, Trump (probably), and of course, my novel Hellbender.
Check it out. My SarahK says I wasn’t terrible.

I don’t get Apple TV+. It looks like they’re going the sorta HBO route by investing in a few shows that they hope everyone will talk about, but it’s a weird reach for a computer device company.
Do they really expect to have enough to get a lot of people to pay for their service or be a selling point on iPads (“I was on the fence about a new iPad, but I’ll get a year of Apple TV+ and it’s eight or so shows!”)?
Well, Apple has more money than most countries. They can do what they want. Also, I have a number of great TV show ideas, so they should probably come talk to me.

Imagine a decade ago pitching a movie where Trump is president, but it’s a drama.
It wouldn’t happen, because that’s a comedy premise. We’re currently living in a comedy. If you accept that, it’s kinda fun. If you resist it, you end up being the dean from Animal House.
Or Kevin Bacon.

I don’t know if I’m #NeverTrump. I’m more “I don’t like Trump but I don’t have any realistic better suggestions.”

#AlwaysYang

It seems like the least popular way to attack Christianity is to go after something Jesus said or did. I’ve seen it done before, but it’s pretty rare.
Strategically, that seems like it should be the most popular way to attack Christianity. The assertion is that Jesus is God made flesh, so to disprove that just show that something he said is really dumb. Dig up his old tweets, so to speak.
What he said and did certainly was attacked back in his own day, but it everything he said accepted now? Well, obviously not all or everyone would be Christians.
What are the least popular things Jesus said? How he talked about marriage in Matthew 19 might be considered a bit narrow now (though I don’t see a lot of people bring that up).
Personally, when he was 12, I didn’t care for his response to his mother after his parents had been searching for him for like three days. Maybe it’s the translation, but it seems a bit dismissive of their concern.

THE FORCE AWAKENS: “Do you love Star Wars? So do I! Here’s some more!”
ROGUE ONE: “Remember Tarkin? Remember AT-STs?”
THE LAST JEDI: “I will raze everything you love in front of you and drink your tears.”
SOLO: “Um… remember Chewbacca? ..No no no. I’m not going to hurt you!”

I’ve never watched Game of Thrones, so I’m not up on how I’m supposed to hate David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. I did read the five released books years ago, so I know I’m supposed to hate George R.R. Martin.
Years back, when I finally started writing the sequel to Superego, I joked that my goal was to get it out before Winds of Winter. I thought it was a joke as with my part time schedule I can sometimes literally write one sentence per day.
But I finished it a while back and have just been sitting on it, getting other things ready. It should finally come out early next year when the cover is ready. I don’t see much chance of Winds of Winter beating me.
But can I get the second sequel to Superego out before Winds of Winter comes out? I’m going to write a sequel to Hellbender before that, but I think maybe.

“Oh, you say you’re a big fan of progressives? Then name five things Americans enjoy that you want to ban.”

Maybe there is a market for people with really terrible politics who want that politics fed back to them in their sports coverage.
But maybe there isn’t.

What do I know, though? I live in this blessed place where I don’t have to care if any of my writing is marketable.

Just because you like doing something doesn’t mean anyone owes you a living doing it.

Man, WaPo is the absolute worst. They now have an editorial on limiting freedom of speech. Is “Democracy dies in darkness” their mission statement?

The arguments against a hate speech laws are so elementary I’m constantly baffled we need to repeat them. What do they teach in schools anymore?

I was planning to not vote again in 2020, but if you Democrats decide to nominate Yang, I’ll vote for him. I’d have to reward that.
There’s a lot I don’t agree with him on, but he’s the only candidate who seems thoughtful instead of partisan.

Release the Joss Whedon cut!

I don’t like the media teaching my kids there are such things as “good” werewolves. That’s not helpful.

One thing that makes writing less stressful for me is that I already know how to code.

Glad we have these new, young, dynamic politicians who can take principled stands against…
checks notes
…condemning genocide.

I don’t get the freak out over Netflix offering a 1.5x speed option. If a consumer wants that, then what? You want to physically stop them?
People talk about the way something was “intended” to be seen, but I’d rather it seen than not. The Third Man still sticks with me, and I watched it on a couple inch screen on a Compaq iPAQ (anyone remember those?).
BTW, I don’t listen to any of your podcasts as you intended them. 2x speed, because I’m a busy man.

Banning all political ads is a much fairer way to handle things than having to wade into partisan fights saying what’s true and what’s isn’t (when you don’t know).

Like I said, we’re living in a comedy and everyone is trying to be the dean from Animal House.
“That was a doctored photo of a dog! I’ve never seen such a disgrace! That’s it Trump: You’re on double secret impeachment.”

Man, wish I had more writing time. I’m really debating whether to hunker down and finish writing Hellbender 2 or Superego 3 next. Have great starts for both.
The first sequel to Superego, Superego: Fathom, should be out in not too long (it’s being edited and cover is being worked on), and my original thought was to continue to write the rest of the sequels (the full story arc is 4 books).
At the same time, Hellbender was a lot of fun and I don’t want to wait that long to write another one. So I was thinking of alternating.
Oh well. Lesson I’ve learned is just make sure you write something each day and eventually — eventually — it all gets done.

“We need national rent control” is considered a serious position held by serious people?
You know why you can’t have progress? We keep having to go back and explain why 2+2 equals 4 and not some other number.

There is no real proof that photo of Trump giving the dog a medal was altered.
I’ve seen photoshops before. They all say “Photoshop Trial Version” down in the corner. This did not have that. It’s a real photo.
When forensic analysis of the photo is complete (which is supposed to be sometime next week), I think people are going to feel really silly for doubting it and will hopefully apologize to Trump and the hero dog.

I think that hero dog has exposed a lot of prejudice. When people hear a dog killed a terrorists, they say, “What a good dog. I would like to pet that dog.” But if it was a cat that killed a terrorist, people would say, “That’s one scary cat. Keep that cat away from children.”