Recent content by TooOlfForThisIsh

Man, it just really depends on who you are. Or what you look like I had to go ballistic on my mom’s oncologist to get palliative care set up after they sent her hope with well -wishes and a suggestion to get some Tylenol after her first dose of chemo

I wish I could say I don’t have a friend whose 70-something mom was dragged out of a crack house trying to score. But I can’t.

To be clear, I include Weiss and Podhoretz in the “ADL” bucket. I think there is a sizeable, wealthy, politically engaged, and currently voiceless constituency within the American US community - people who are breaking or have broken with Israel but who still have strong identity as Jews...

There’s maybe a winning wedge that tries to strengthen (or re-capture) the increasingly large American Jewish population that has problems with Bibi and Likud. Schumer has the bonafides to do it, but it would actually take work to work to establish antisemitic fighting alternatives to the ADL, etc

I love those bronze jewels. For the most part, I can’t wear white shoes with Khakis. To my eyes, it’s just too golfer. But I will happily rock those with the most basic 2L’s and feel good about it. Mine definitely came from Europe. Was there even a US drop? I remember waiting for them and...

Yeah, my 2019 flax pair finally moved on to being gardening shoes. I feel like they limped along for the last year to give me the opportunity to buy these instead of the standard flax. But I’m worried about the sizing so my dumb brain is considering ordering the oreowood on StockX so I can...

I’m older than you, so I’d say since the Reagan days. But my dad would say Nixon. There’s a pattern…

Navy/blacks remind me of early 90’s Elesse suede sneakers that came in all kinds of 90’s “Oak Tree” colors like olive and mustard, but also navy iirc. Those we comfortable shoes.

Too much sauce. The most important technological innovation since the Internet is centered in the US. We are still the global finance capital. And our military industrial complex is still unmatched. But your point stands that we whiffed green industrialization badly.

Way to dampen their HoF news…

Do you usually size down? If so, where are these smaller: width, toe box, something else?

My parents, who live in El Paso, recently got dental work. They drove to a parking garage on the US side, got picked up by some super nice van, spent all their time with an actual dentist - even the cleaning and routine stuff, were given drinks all day, and deposited back at their car in the...

“Full sovereignty” is doing a lot of work, but yes, I do believe this is possible. Ironic question coming from a communist. Anyways, with the caveat that every nation is imperfect, I think Mexico post 1990 compares very favorably to Chavista Venezuela with somewhat similar constraints...

That’s part of what bugs me about it: there’s a certain privilege in being able to praise monsters from afar because you will never be harmed by them and you can’t bother to educate yourself. I also find the edgy reductive nihilism of “every state does evil things so every state is equally...

I don’t disagree with anything you wrote. But none of that explains why useful idiots on the left often insist on concluding that leaders who are terrible to their own people are somehow redeemed into good people just because they stand up to the US. Like, I get nuanced understanding of...