Mitch's Blog

The economy is faltering and Americans know it.

Bloomberg reports that 62% of Americans they polled say the cost of everyday items has climbed over the past month and that 55% of employed Americans say they’re worried about losing their job. It also notes, as CNBC economic commenter Carl Quintanilla pointed out, that international stocks are outperforming the U.S. S&P stock index by the widest margin in 16 years. Yesterday the University of Michigan consumer confidence survey hit its lowest reading in 65 years.

— Heather Cox Richardson

We paid El Salvador to torture, abuse, and rape completely innocent Venezuelans so that [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio, [White House deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller, and Donald Trump could claim they were tough on immigrants.

— Heather Cox Richardson

Ezra Klein: How Tucker Carlson is helping modern Nazis — “Groypers” — go mainstream in the Republican Party.

To call them Nazis is not hyperbole. These guys see Jews as enemies within America, and are not shy about saying so. No dog-whistling here.

I keep getting spam at work with the subject line “EMPLOYEES FROM HELL.” I feel seen.

The United States is in the moment after Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff, but before he looks down.

I don’t trust newfangled simultaneous collaborative editing tools. Two people editing the same doc at the same time? It’s witchcraft!

Or electricity. I don’t trust electricity.

I had to re-learn to read books in 2023, after 20+ years of doing more and more of my reading on the Internet.

When I was a kid, I thought quicksand, evil twins and amnesia would be bigger deals than they turned out to be.

Me, when I go out to walk the dog, and it's forecast to rain in the next hour

The hobbits have arrived at the Prancing Pony, which I picture as like the Bada Bing in The Sopranos. “Paulie Walnuts” could be a hobbit name.