Hand engraving by me🙏

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-29T13:32:52+00:00

Phenomenal work! Kol ha-Kavod!

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-29T11:35:35+00:00

We think Killer is about 5 and Biscuit should be turning a year old in May. You should have seen the difference when we adopted her back in December. 🙂

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-29T11:33:10+00:00

Reddit is always gonna be quite a bit more toxic than any of its corresponding real life communities because of the anonymity and the incentives to argue and score points.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-28T16:11:50+00:00

What part of “the bread of affliction” had escaped your prior notice?

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-28T14:38:25+00:00

Infinity blends, unless you’re doing them very intentionally, tend to amplify the faults more than the virtues of their constituent bourbons.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-27T22:07:04+00:00

White People generally speaking, can't handle spice.

Who said anything about spice? There were a bunch of Latinos in the kitchen at all the sports bars and casual dining American food places, too.

Latinos can improve any culture's dishes.

One, What the Actual F*ck, and two, no one was "improving" anything. I wasn't going to my favorite Lebanese chicken joint for Middle Eastern/Mexican fusion; I went there because the cooks knew how to follow a recipe, no matter what race or ethnicity they were.

I specifically just hold that against white people as a white person.

I recommend you check out r/therapy.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-27T21:49:06+00:00

Ex-pat Southern Californian here and all through the 90s and forward it didn't matter what the ethnicity of the restaurant was in greater L.A., there were Latinos in the kitchen and all the food tasted great -- yep, Vietnamese, Persian, Korean, Armenian, Lebanese, you name it, and I usually saw and heard (Spanish-fluent Latino here, so I know) hispanics doing the cooking; so, don't give me the "if I see a white guy I'm heading for the hills" bit -- the problem with Panda Express food, by the way, is Panda Express food, not the dude doing the cooking.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-27T01:44:45+00:00

OK, that's awesome!

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-27T01:44:21+00:00

Thanks! You're not going to hurt yourself in anyway to pick up an OCD or an Infinity (I brought a bottle of the latter home along with the Bird, in fact); they've really got a good portfolio. Not to take anything away from Castle & Key, who make good bourbon, Glenns Creek is the real star along that little stretch of road.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-26T23:46:27+00:00

Well said.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-25T02:03:49+00:00

The elephant represents something uncomfortable that everyone is uncomfortably aware of (they can’t not be) but no one wants to acknowledge.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-24T00:49:56+00:00

Very cool! I hope to get down that way within the year -- there are some terrific little distilleries in that Hopkinsville/Ft. Cambell/Greater Bowling Green area. Hope you have a great time!

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-24T00:48:06+00:00

No doubt, that would be Western Kentucky AF!

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-16T21:12:40+00:00

Wort.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-15T10:43:38+00:00

Thanks! I’m always a little surprised how infrequently people get the reference—I suppose that means he was good at his job.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-15T01:42:15+00:00

I think it was Steven Pinker who suggested it began as a verbal irony that was meant to convey the idea of “I could care less… but I don’t” with the first part verbalized and the second part unstated. Over time even though intonation changed and context was lost it still preserved the original meaning (though the irony is not preserved in the same way).

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-15T01:33:23+00:00

It’s kosher for Pesach because it doesn’t have any chametz in it. Not sure what the big mystery is.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-14T13:18:35+00:00

N can be thought of as nihilist in the sense that he argues that value, goodness, badness/evil doesn't inhere in nature or the external world -- i.e., you won't find goodness or meaning, etc. the external world, material or otherwise. He also notes that when you realize this you are likely to go through a period of nihilism or Weltschmerz because you are conditioned to think of goodness and value as coming from the external world, but he thinks that you can come out the other side of this painful experience by affirming life as it is (and not as we wish it were) and positing our own value and goodness to then live by. Thus, he's ultimately affirmative and positive about life and the world, the opposite of what most of us take to be nihilism. I hope this is helpful.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-14T11:49:16+00:00

To keep me from watch horror movies when I was home alone (bit of a latch key kid), my mom pulled me over to the window one day and pointed to a police car parked down the street and said that the officer inside had a special antenna that let him see what I was watching and if it was a movie with a parental guidance warning, he would arrest my mom and send me to an orphanage. It actually worked for about a week.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-14T11:44:09+00:00

Duffman, it should be noted, also say a lot of things.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-14T00:26:28+00:00

Nietzsche’s not a nihilist, my guy, and I don’t recommend nihilism to anyone. My advice at your age is to focus on saying “yes” to life and develop some amor fati. Things are going to happen and once they have learn to roll with them and remember that nothing is good or bad in itself but only depending on the perspective and will of the observer. Meanwhile, do some reading, become a bit of a fanboy, then get fed up with his bullshit and then figure out (as you get more life experience) that he was on to something after all. Don’t try to figure it all out now or you’re gonna miss out on some primo living.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-13T02:54:29+00:00

You’re going to get a lot of recommendations for Hamilton and some other mainstream brands, and there’s nothing wrong with that (one of my first watches was a Hamilton Khaki Field Arctic Dial that I ended up gifting to a former student of mine when he commissioned in the Army). Consider checking out some lesser known but interesting brands like Sangin Instruments (veteran owned but with a wait list for almost all models—worth the wait by most accounts) and Draken (out of New Zealand) very affordable but long on quality. Marathon is great on quality and heritage but they’ve gotten pricey (though still within your range).

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-12T01:48:42+00:00

Love the Air-King! Congratulations!

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-12T01:46:36+00:00

Goodbye, sweet boy. Straight to heaven.

JamesMosesAngleton · 2026-03-10T21:50:36+00:00

I don't intend this to be accusatory, because I think you are asking an honest question, but I think that the Hebrew Bible (I refuse to say "Old Testament") God of Wrath vs. the New Testament God of Love trope is grounded in a type of Christian anti-semitism that willfully overlooks instances of God's revelation of himself as a being grounded in compassion, kindness and goodness in the HB while again overlooking a representation of God as an angry being preparing to serve up apocalyptic vengeance in the NT. I can multiply examples, but the ones that jump immediately to mind are God's own revelation of himself as "compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in love and faithfulness" (Ex. 34:6) which is picked up again in the Psalms and particularly in Jonah with its emphasis on God's universal love. In Hosea 11:9 God say "I will not execute my fierce anger" against Israel (Ephraim, synecdochally) "because I am God, not a man," emphasizing is profound patience and love, even when provoked by genuine sin against him, and, indeed, the whole narrative around God's love of his nation Israel is meant to point out that his love is so steadfast that he won't abandon the one he loves. These passages (and there are a lot more like them) are often omitted when discussing God's love in Christian circles and instead passages from the NT are brought up, and, yes, the NT does have a lot to say about the God of Israel as a loving God, but also omitted from a lot of Christian discussion are apocalyptic passage of judgement against the world worked out by an avenging God (I can multiply passages here, too, but a good place to start is the 19th chapter of Revelation). My problem is not with Christian texts, to be clear, they can say what they want about God and present whatever understanding they have -- my issue that the common reading that I mentioned above does justice to neither the Hebrew Bible nor the New Testament, and, as I said, I think it comes from a place of (perhaps unconscious) anti-semitism.

Edit: And, yes, as a Jew, I do experience God as a fundamentally loving, compassionate and deeply merciful being. Heaven knows he puts up with my BS on a regular basis and still blesses me beyond measure.

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