Paul Campos

I hope it really is a coincidence that Selzer, who from everything I've heard is one of the most respected people in the business, is moving on to other ventures that won't make her a target of the Maximum Leader.

I did a Lexis search this morning on stories about the presidential election that credited Trump with a “decisive victory,” and came up with 1,858 that used that phrase, although that number certainly includes quite a bit of double-counting of stories that were published in more than one venue. So hey maybe it's only like 1,200 or something. Here's one with some quotes from our brave captains of tech industry:

It's at times like these that I'm especially grateful for the post-election statesmanship of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and other prominent Democrats, who have made it clear that all that talk about authoritarianism and fascism was just some good-natured ribbing — political locker room talk if you will — and that it's now time to put the divisiveness of the campaign behind us.

I forwarded this story (gift link) to a law professor friend, who replied that it had achieved the seemingly impossible task of making her sympathize with Ben Sasse. Sasse, it turns out, may have gotten sort-of-fired from his job as president of the University of Florida not for profligate spending on administrative gee gaws/featherbedding for […]

Steve Vladeck has an amusing and disturbing — more the latter, given the circumstances — description of his encounter with 5th circuit judge Edith Jones at the big annual Federalist Society conference last week. Vladeck shouldn’t be doing these kinds of panels, given what the Federalist Society has so obviously become, which he sort of […]

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” This is the famous first line of Joan Didion's great essay “The White Album,” which is among other things Didion's account of her struggle to make sense of the apparently nonsensical and surreal chaos of to so much of politics and culture in America in general and Southern California in particular in the last years of the 1960s.

There's a lot to think about in this Tressie MacMilliam Cottom essay about Trump's cross-demographic appeal, and you should read all of it ( gift link ). Here I'm going to focus on one piece, which is the wellness to fascism pipeline:

And no, I don't think this was some eleventydimensional chess to make equally horrendous picks like RFK and the Deus Vult tattoo artist and the Russian agent look good by comparison.

This post is about a mystery wrapped inside of an enigma, which LGM has been deputized to crowdsource. The mystery is: Who is Jolin Ellison?

This is an absolutely mind-blowing survey of 1,000 Americans, with their responses weighted to make the survey group reflect a nationally representative population.