December 13, 2025

GOOD AND HARD, FUN CITY:

Posted at 5:39 pm by Ed Driscoll

DEVELOPING:

UPDATE: Suspect still at large, apparently:

Posted at 5:05 pm by Ed Driscoll

MAYBE NEIL KINNOCK WILL CHIP IN:

Since Joe was the figurehead during Obama’s third term in office, isn’t the answer here simple? Just give Biden’s library a couple of rooms in the basement of Barry’s Death Star flak tower:

Posted at 2:44 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S FRUM TO THIS: David Frum Explains Why DOJ’s Use of ‘Franklin’ Parody Is a Form of Transnational Organized Crime. “The Atlantic’s David Frum comes across like he’s just been hired as Franklin’s attorney with this assessment of what the Justice Department has done by sharing that meme…As you might have guessed, Frum’s post on the speculative legal aspects of the Trump administration’s ‘Franklin’ memes had the immediate opposite effect:”

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

DECREASE FOOT PAIN: CURREX RunPro Insoles for Running Shoes. #CommissionEarned I have pain from running on a treadmill and went to my local running store and got these at their recommendation. They are amazing and really help with any heel or foot pain.

Posted at 1:30 pm by Helen Smith

A FACE IN THE CROWD: 

I’m so old, I can remember when Al Sharpton was the person who approved all Democratic Party presidential candidates:

An amazing thing has happened in New York, and in Democratic politics: Al Sharpton has become King. He is Mr. Big, The Man to See, the straw that stirs the drink. Nothing has made that clearer than the prelude to the New York primary, and the budding New York Senate race. They come in a steady parade to him, even if they show flutters of reluctance: Bill Bradley, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton. Everyone refers to this as “kissing his ring”; at times, Democrats seem willing to kiss even more. Not long ago, he was a demagogue, a race-baiter, a menace — and acknowledged as such, by all but a fringe. Day and night, he worked to make an always difficult city — New York — even more difficult, more tense. Now, however, he practically rules. He is a kind of Establishment. His record — as galling as any in our politics — is overlooked, excused, or shrugged off. It is to him that every (Democratic) knee must bow.

I’m also old enough to remember right around this time a year ago, when Democrats wondered why men abandoned them in droves, and sought to create a Joe Rogan-style podcast of their own: Wait, You’re Telling Me This Person Is Shifting the Overton Window?

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: Animal Farm review: Director Andy Serkis softens George Orwell classic for family animation. “Originally conceived by George Orwell as a satirical allegory for the Russian Revolution and the subsequent struggles of the USSR under the rule of Joseph Stalin, Animal Farm’s political ire is redirected in this lively CG-animated adaptation directed by Andy Serkis. Rather than Stalinism, Serkis takes aim at greed, rapacious consumerism and corporate corruption and malfeasance. There’s also a timely dig at populist political movements.”

This isn’t the first attempt at a mirror universe Animal Farm; Roger Waters did the same thing nearly 50 years ago on Pink Floyd’s Animals: “Whereas the novella focuses on Stalinism, the album is a critique of capitalism and differs again in that the sheep eventually rise up to overpower the dogs.”

(Via, appropriately enough, Small Dead Animals.)

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll