Werner Herzog's Bear
Teacher, historian, and blogger. Born and raised in Nebraska, working and living in Jersey.
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused jasontebbe.substack.com
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- Every now and then I threaten to run against Joe D. Someone serious ought to do it so we can put a stake through the machine.
- #NowPlaying at LGFHQ: Fountains of Wayne > Fountains of Wayne > Survival Car
- I was listening to this album today!
- My latest, expanding my thoughts on Stefan Zweig and discussing the need for visions of the future. open.substack.com/pub/jasonteb...
- Reactionaries thought 2024 would be like 1980, not just an election win, but a new economic/social/cultural arrangement. They are way over their skis because the public really dislikes a program they arrogantly assumed had consensus.
- I will go to my grave with the observation I had in 2024 that the low info voters I encountered were more clueless and untethered from reality than any of their cohort I have ever encountered.
- On this day of all days with the WaPo news we ought to center the broken media landscape in our discussions of politics. The public sphere as we knew it is almost completely dead.
- The dynamics of NIMBYism might do some good work for once.
- Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...
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- Depressing thought is that they are less likely to override white suburbanites.
- I’ve learned its dark arts by opposing it so if they try to build one here I’ll come to the public meeting with a million frivolous comments about traffic, parking, neighborhood character, historical preservation etc so local pols have cover to nix it.
- Garth Brooks, “Friends in Low Places”
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- Wild. Who is his actual audience? This stuff sounds like anti-music.
