Ed Teach

@realedteach

American living in Portugal. Parent, writer, part-time dufus, full-time sarcasm user. Trying to make sense of all this nonsense. Words at LisbonWire.com.

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Ed Teach@realedteach· 10d

What an extraoridinarily unconventional spelling of 'Climate Change' www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/c...

Ed Teach@realedteach· 11d

Every outgoing GOP administration since Nixon:

A young Henry Hill (R-Ozone Park) flees the scene after setting a parking lot full of cars ablaze, from Goodfellas.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Jul 13

It's really wild how Trump alternates personas between "dumb Hitler" and Mayor Humdinger from Paw Patrol.

Mayor Humdinger unveils loop-de-loop project for Adventure City subway system.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Jul 12

Can't imagine why the famously bigoted president finds it so funny to joke constantly about dispatching a 1st gen American cabinet member on an involuntary foreign assignment. Anyway, great job Marco! Yours is surely the kind of story history looks kindly upon. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

the president’s aides say he was joking — and that he frequently teases Mr. Rubio about an overseas assignment

Ed Teach@realedteach· Jun 17

Ed Teach@realedteach· May 20

So the plan was to install a famously anti-American anti-Israel has-been hardliner. But they accidentally blew him up during the jailbreak. And the experience reminded him "Oh yeah. I hate these people." Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

Mr. Ahmadinejad was injured on the war’s first day by an Israeli strike at his home in Tehran that had been designed to free him from house arrest, the American officials and an associate of Mr. Ahmadinejad said. He survived the strike, they said, but after the near miss he became disillusioned with the regime change plan.

He has not been seen publicly since then and his current whereabouts and condition are unknown.

Ed Teach@realedteach· May 19

"You see, I purchased CBS News so I could dismantle it," he continued.

Ed Teach@realedteach· May 15

Sounds like a lot of bonding between the G2 this week:

Ed Teach@realedteach· May 12

Buying up property in a city that'll be swallowed by the ocean by mid-century, in order to avoid paying a comparatively small tax on my sky mansion in the world's financial capital. Also, I am a financial genius. Please allow me to manage your investments.

“What Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago,” he said, adding that the firm planned to “double down” on Miami, where it moved the hedge fund’s headquarters four years ago.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 30

Latest images from Strait of Hormuz just came in. It's not looking good guys.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 23

The $30,000 "Not a sugar daddy relationship" Cartier bracelet I bought my girlfriend is raising lots of questions already answered by her bracelet. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“I did not want a sugar daddy/prostitution relationship, after spending $30,000-$40,000 for vacations, Cartier jewelry, expensive handbags, and various shopping trips,” he wrote

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 22

Just by the survey responses in the story, there's nothing to suggest these voters were winnable in any cohesive way. The main reasons are some version of "didn't matter/wasn't vibing Kamala" Maybe next time "Cory Booker scolded me" will make the list. But I doubt it really makes a difference.

Now the reasons they stayed home. 26% said they didn’t like either candidate. 19% said their vote wouldn’t make a difference. 14% cited Harris entering the race late without a primary. 14% said nothing positive got done during the Biden term. 11% said Harris was no different from Biden.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 17

Mr Burns tries to board the Spruce Moose

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 16

Contemporary depiction of one Pharisee denouncing Jesus for picking grain on the sabbath, and delivering unsanctioned prayers, and carrying a gun

"The path of the righteous man... something something." Sam Jackson

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 16

The Left simply can't admit that wealth and power accrue disproportionately to people with superior genes.

Charles II of Spain, often referred to as "Europe's most inbred monarch"

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 15

Some French people right now, presumably.

Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds saying "nukes!" Instead of "nerds!"

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 10

Our entire economy revolves around a two-tiered model, marketing premium services to the ultra-wealthy-for whom the upgrade cost is a pittance-while nickle and diming regular people for substandard often demeaning goods and services. It was not always like this. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/b...

“When you think about where the industry was 20 years ago, or where Delta was, we basically just sold main cabin seats,” said Joe Esposito, Delta’s chief commercial officer. He added: “What we all thought back then was, ‘Can you make a premium product that people are willing to pay for?’”

The answer has been a resounding yes. Airlines have become much better at selling those nice seats to travelers, and customers have grown much more willing to pay for them.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 9

I'm threatening to rub Siracha into the quartermaster's eyes unless they nab me two bottles of this liquid gold

El yucateco habañero sauce. Accept no substitute.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 5

Look what they took from us. #Retvrn

Ed Teach@realedteach· Apr 1

This guy. Standing outside your local movie theater bathroom. Performing mandatory junk inspections. And so many Dems will say "this just isn't a fight we can win. We gotta talk about health insurance premiums"

Iowa Gov Brad Little, who just signed a law criminalizing trans bathroom use.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 30

"Recognizing a bad idea... is part of my job." Are you sure?

I’ve been an editor for 15 years now. Recognizing a bad idea beneath good writing — even in myself — is part of my job.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 30

This should be a nightmare for any self-respecting writer. Yet, I don't get the impression Klein is doing this as some sort of thought experiment. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

My experience of Anthropic’s Claude in recent months is that I’ll drop in a stub of a thought and immediately receive paragraphs of often elegant writing turning that intuition into something that looks, superficially, like a fully realized idea. It’s my impulse, but it has been recast and extended into something far more coherent. With each passing month, I have to expend more energy to recognize whether it’s fundamentally wrong or hollow.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 20

Same energy:

Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit reveals "I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it."

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 18

"Retrieve" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/u...

Trump’s Next Decision: Whether to Retrieve Iran’s Nuclear Fuel, Whatever the Risk

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 17

Current reading material for the GOP Senate book club:

Richard J.A. Talbert's The Senate of Imperial Rome

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 17

Trump admin reportedly saying Cuban regime can remain, if President Díaz-Canel steps down. So, facing no short-term consequences for Venezuela, and a complete disaster in Iran, this is the go-to move: Performative acts of coercion, devoid of any policy objective or change to the status quo.

As U.S. and Cuban officials negotiate over the future of the Communist-ruled and economically besieged Caribbean island, the Trump administration is seeking to push President Miguel Díaz-Canel from power, according to four people familiar with the talks.

The move would topple a key figurehead while keeping in place the repressive Communist government that has ruled Cuba for more than 65 years. The Americans have signaled to Cuban negotiators that the president must go, but are leaving the next steps up to the Cubans, the people said

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 16

The liberal press are saying Caesar's made of himself a King. That's *dis*information. Past great leaders have taken the temporary role of dictator when the Republic was under attack. The *only* difference here is the title is for life, and Caesar is the one who attacked Rome.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 11

"Ted! Don't forget to W̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶w̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ make a plan to counter an Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz!

Ted T. Logan reminds his past self to wind his watch.

Ed Teach@realedteach· Mar 1

Ed Teach@realedteach· Feb 27

Be bold by being Bland? This is quite simply Huey Lewis politics.