Dheeraj Chand
Personal account, no ties to any clients or employers, my opinions, blame me.
Work: Elections data, redistricting, surveys, Spark, Scala, Python, Demography.
Personal: Musician, Freemason, Reader, Philology, Philosophy, Boxing, Jazz.
- I: I’m going to listen to Django Reinhardt, it’s his birthday. My girlfriend: Not with me around. *scoots to the other room* Nobody talks about how hard inter-faith relationships can be when one prays in jazz and the other doesn’t.
- I am friendly with a few post-structuralists and I enjoy messing with them through hyperbole to see if they’ll catch the satire. Today’s fun was referring to music without AutoTune as “cis-tonal” and AutoTune as “tone identity affirming technology.” Only my friends laughed.
- Something very interesting seemed to have happened with COVID, in that many otherwise smart people, despite ideological differences, all broke under weight of vaccine mandates. Lots of Republicans, sure, but jumpy and idiotic leftists, too. This was almost a pure test of worth.
- Donald Trump can still win the Golden Globe if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.
- Strauss, in his Symposium lectures, imputes to progressive thinking, through Kojeve’s Marx, a complete fungibility of humans, even down to sex. The years have been kind to his prediction, but people don’t like the consequences of it.
- Attn: Jewish friends, fountain pens defeat me, as do hardcover editions in Sanskrit, German, Latin and Greek. I die for Benedetto guitars and Ellington records.
- Most temperamental conservatives I know has made the decision that Democrats are more mentally stable, that it's worth sacrificing policy goals in the name of predictability and reasonability. Many Republicans I know are agonizing about this, hoping that they can ride the Trump tiger a bit longer.
- The Trump administration has shut down money to Minnesota through the USDA. What is the point of Congressional appropriation if the administration can refuse to spend as directed?
- Something you’ll hear from women is that they are always apologizing. What they don’t tell you is that they mean it in the original sense of the word.
- My girlfriend told me I farted so loudly she not only woke up and yelled in fright, but that I slept through all of this. I am still laughing three days later. Never lose your youthful love of life.
- One’s life can provide context and explanations for behaviors, structures create incentives, but we have power within those structures to respond to incentives. Most of what I find disgusting in people is the refusal to own their choices and use biography to exculpate themselves.
- Republicans are saying that Maduro, an objectively bad guy, needed to be taken out because he wouldn’t accept the results of an election he lost. George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump didn’t have much to say, I guess.
- I cannot imagine thinking you got a journalism job and then being assigned to look at pictures of Democrats to find out how much their clothes cost to see if they’re expensive enough to try out calling them spoilt rich kids playing revolutionary. If that were my job, I’d learn to code.
- I am one of the very lucky few who've managed to find love again after a divorce. I was lucky enough to find someone with whom to have a marriage, for which I am grateful, even in its dissolution, and even more lucky to find someone again. My heart is still for all those forlorn of love, it hurts.
- Jason and Spiritualized get a lot of recognition, rightly so, but some of Pete’s solo work is also very good. I don’t think he ever matched the disturbing quiet he found on Spectrum, though. music.apple.com/us/album/ang...
- I have decided to embrace my true nature as a high maintenance man. Please pray for the women in my life.
- I’m probably going to hate the answer to this question, but, here goes. Why are Republicans suddenly talking about Nicki Minaj? Did Kanye’s antisemitism help them discover her verse on “Monster”?
- Marvel wasted Kumail Nanjiani on the awful Eternals movie, but James Gunn could easily cast him as Booster Gold, for which he’d be perfect.
- “The emotionaler you are the truer what you say is.” - Activist proverb
- Jake Paul can still win this boxing match against Anthony Joshua if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.
- Everyone you know who thinks they understand the CBS editorial process also believes that there is a tape of a hooker peeing on Donald Trump and that Andrew Tate was arrested because of a pizza. Just keep that in mind.
- The sales lady at GAP told me that I am officially old enough and a father, so I am allowed to wear cargo pants, and I'm thrilled. Permission to frump, so to speak, is amazing.
- My sincere hope is that in the same way it has almost become a tradition for rappers to beat up Drake, it becomes a tradition for boxers to beat up Jake Paul. Heal fast, Jake.
- “Modus Tonens” is a great description of how leftists argue. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reading post-structuralism when you have already consumed real books.
- Someone should ask the Vice President if his children are “Heritage Americans.”
- A person with no German, who has never read Scholastics, nor Plato nor Aristotle in Greek, says something about Hegel, Nietzsche or Heidegger. I smile.
- I get served a lot of content that seems designed to make me hate black women. I grew up in Houston, and I play jazz music and box amateur as hobbies. I am around black women all the time, mostly, poor and working class ones. I don’t see anything from the memes in the people I know.
- I have had a Netflix account since 2004, twenty-one years. This still photograph justifies every penny I have paid them over the years.
- What’s really funny about this fight is that AJ could not conceal his contempt and how obvious it was that he was paid to let Jake Paul last at least four rounds. Come the fifth, however, it was over. Out came the Sky Sabres, down went the influencer.
- Without a 3 Knockdown rule, Paul can go down like this as many times as he wants, and take an 8 each time, running out the clock. Disgusting.
- Jake Paul is so loathsome a human being that I, an American, and Indian, at that, am cheering for his defeat at the hands of a Briton, Anthony Joshua.
- Jake Paul is not a “disruptor.” He is a media brand impersonating a boxer for attention, and an illiterate society that rewards outlandish behaviour has made him rich enough to go through this farce and make others play along. Mike Tyson was a disruptor.
- This Baum fight is a great example of why three minute rounds for women is controversial. Even a contender of Beaudoin’s accomplishments is being defeated by the clock.
- Baum gave up a title to get three minute rounds for women. This sport has changed so much over my life, I remember when women boxing was a joke for comedians like Dice. What an amazing thing to see.
- Second round knockdown and fight call for Silva. Unbelievable skill and power on this guy, it’s impossible to dislike him. One can only hope the years continue to be kind to him.
- Anthony Joshua is perhaps the best evidence of the superiority of Nigeria’s jollof rice.
- It’s really telling and also hilarious in a literary sense that what qualified her to Mamdani is what disqualified her to America. Welcome to Hizzonner DSA. nypost.com/2025/12/18/u...
- Höfner are bankrupt. This is so sad, I have one of their violins and it's incredible. guitar.com/news/industr...
- Nate Silver keeps coming with funny ways to describe the small-tent, purity politics approach he thinks fails, only to be met with denials that it exists, in the most hysterical ways possible, that prove his point. The newest way, making fun of people who read Heather Cox Richardson, is the same.
- “Men are socialized to be taller and stronger.” - Leftist proverb
- A psychotic who stalks my girlfriend has recently begun stalking my social media, so this post is a hello to him. Hi, guy, enjoy your time. Just know that when you and I share space together, your first Kung Fu lesson will be free.
