Kirk Israel's commonplace and blog. Quotes and links daily since 2001.
2026.05.13

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly "John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not."
2026.05.12
My high school had the arcade game "Vigilante" in the rec room, and for 30 years this "I'm a BIG" billboard has lived rent-free in my head:
(via this page that has a few other weird billboards from the game...)
2026.05.11
Gerald Ford's economics is the worst thing that's happened to this country since pantyhose ruined finger-fucking.
LBJ
2026.05.10
Wow. Leave aside the idiocy of the idea that "oh we're such a not racist nation that any districting that even thinks about race is ipso facto racist and can't be allowed" and just think about "oh courts can't say boo about partisan gerrymandering"... that once a party has any kind of edge, they are free to redistrict, ignoring any logical geographical or community idea in order to ensure a quasi permanent minoritarian rule. How is that any kind of justice? This is disenfranchisement in the most blatant scale imaginable.

"Stop the steal" my ass.
2026.05.09

Open Photo Gallery

2026.05.08
2026.05.07
Hey heard about this Hantavirus Cruise Ship Thing?

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak.

Almost as much fun as bringing back deadly Measles with Encephalitis. Y'all are so smart.
Headline of the moment:
Trump Is in His Ozymandias Era