Jason Anderson

Living my dream life -- husband, father all the time; writer when I can get away with it. Religion, politics, sports... Don't overthink it.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

HOW TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON - A CONTINUING SERIES:
Say you're somebody who wants to really understand what's going on in the world, but you're not a borderline-autistic obsessive who wants to constantly refresh news feeds. How do you do it? Let's talk about that.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

@awstar11 It would be fun to play "How far would a Brazilian invasion force get before they were completely obliterated?"

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Someone is in love with you.
You may not know who they are, but someone thinks you’re the bee’s knees.

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

The communist is very open about who he thinks the enemy is.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Somebody said that Apple is in their Taco Bell era where they're just smashing together random leftover parts from other devices and naming them things like "Phonedito Supreme Crunch" and it's the perfect analogy. Here slap a touch screen on this, charge $4k and call it a Maclupa

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

This is good, except I might rank 20s and 30s above childhood because you have so many more options and opportunities open to you. Although being able to play all the time without responsibilities is pretty great. Adolescence is a mess and I'm glad it's well behind me.
I'm at 55 now, and just starting to soak up all the senior discounts, which is pretty great. 50s are at least equal to 40s.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

One part of his story arc has the good orc running to be a senator from Texas.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

New season of 'Rings of Power' will feature good Orc to show the 'complex' nature of their 'distinct personalities'
https://t.co/QK2OYjbs80

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

@cactus2jack2 @JesseKellyDC

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

This right here. There's a lot of fancy-shmancy academic-sounding language that's just a smokescreen for an old fashioned power struggle. Don't overthink it.

[Larry Alex Taunton @LarryTaunton]

THE FIGHTING ON THE “RIGHT” EXPLAINED:

Don’t be confused by the pseudo-sophisticated talk of vast conspiracies, hidden puppeteers, and talk of “post-liberal” bullsh*t. In an attempt to explain the infighting on what is allegedly the “Right” — but is mostly Leftists — people are connecting dots that don’t actually connect. To follow them is like taking your political cues from Dwight Schrute.

I get it. People have a deep need for answers, and these people fill that emotional void. But this doesn’t require complicated narratives or great political savvy to understand:

What you are seeing is the inevitable unraveling of a Trump coalition that had no real “we hold these truths to be self-evident” ideological anchor. He knew he had authentic conservatives/evangelicals already. To them he cleverly added those who aren’t conservatives, they are merely anti-woke: people like Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and RFK, Jr. I mean, he platformed an unrepentant pro-abortion porn star at the RNC. That’s taking “big tent” politics to a whole new level.

The strategy worked insofar as Trump won the presidency. But now elements of the merely anti-woke crowd, none of whom are Christian, are at the throats of authentic conservatives in a bid for control of the Republican Party.

Various interested parties, both foreign and domestic, are throwing their weight behind their preferred faction. It’s no more complicated than that.

Does that mean there aren’t actual puppeteers? No. They exist as they have always existed in politics. But don’t make them bigger boogeymen than they really are. Their chief influence is in adding to the social media noise, fueling division, and creating or suppressing narratives. They amplify the messages of those horses they’re backing while simultaneously demoralizing their opponents.

Finally, there is also a strong non-ideological element to this teapot tempest that pretends to be ideological. You are seeing people tilt at Twitter windmills, not in defense of a political platform, but in defense of a friendship that the other side demands be renounced: “You won’t renounce Tucker, therefore you agree with Tucker….” “You were on Steve Bannon’s show, therefore you are aligned with Bannon…” etc., etc. Most people have no ideology at all; they have relationships. And most find it very difficult to publicly attack a friend who has done them a service — even when that friend has gone off the rails. It’s human nature.

My advice?

Ignore all of it and make better use of your time.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

@DougTenNapel Let us here pour one out for the genius of Tex Avery.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

Note to Rosie, Ellen, et al: #Brazil is what it looks like when you really need to flee the country after an election.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

Remember when a flood wiped out a bunch of villages in Nepal a couple of months ago? I feel like, in decades past, that would be the kind of thing that got tons of news coverage and a big fundraising concert and all that. But not anymore. Hey did you hear Jennifer Lawrence got a facelift?

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

@KurtSchlichter In the Trump era, the press collectively decided to become that character from a horror movie whose whole job is to say, "c'mon guys, that's just a crazy old wives tale"

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

Remember back when there were tube TVs, with a thousand different knobs that could adjust the picture every which way? There was always that one clown who thought he could make the picture better by tweeking this knob just a liiittle more, and then he would run it. That guy is now a plastic surgeon in Hollywood.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

I have a supercomputer in my pocket! How are we just now getting this?!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Cheerios announces the first-ever resealable cereal bag, partnering with Ziploc to keep cereal fresh longer.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

Yes, the particulars of this post season especially (with the importance of fundamentals, base running, defense, etc) have shown that there are limits to the ongoing bananaballification of the sport. I like the Bananas, but I like baseball too. #WorldSeries

[Matt, Preschool Diploma @statomattic]

Oh hey, MLB? These extra innings are a lot more exciting without a ghost runner. Can we please remove it from regular season games forever? Please???

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

@JesseCohenInv Me waiting to find out how much blood I'm going to have to sell to get my kids Christmas presents.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

Everybody who doesn't understand how banks work please read this.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

A conversation that has happened many times in banking, with various flavor texts, from fintech to public banking to microfinance.

A: We think there is an opportunity to write loans to an underserved population.
B: At usuriously high rates?
A: No, at usual rates. Maybe lower.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

@KB1UGO @JesseKellyDC Never been to Cleveland myself but I'll allow it.

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

The line out/caught off base double play is one of the most brutal things that can happen to you in all of sport. #WorldSeries

[Jason Anderson @jaceonline]

How is it 2026 and we don't yet have progress bars on ovens while they're preheating?