Watching "Gladiator" with @amycolleen.bsky.social, and I feel like there's more fabric dye in just that one scene walking through the red drapery to the first amphitheater battle than in the whole entirety of "The Odyssey." And you know what? It still looks like Antiquity. Bring back color to films.

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I'm forgetting the details but like 20 years ago -- 30? -- some weirdo tried to get the city to buy some crazy Statue of Liberty-sized statue of Columbus he had created. It was in pieces ready for assembly. The city passed, but The Other Paper had fun imagining where we'd put it.

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Greetings on Columbus Day from Columbus, Ohio, where six years ago they removed the big Christopher Columbus statue and absolutely no one in this city gives a shit that it's gone or ever really thinks about it. It's a good reminder that people who care about Columbus are losers who don't matter.

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Denying Catholic priests the ability to administer sacraments to Catholic prisoners is objectively insanely offensive to Catholicism in a way that almost nothing else could be

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Laughing and nodding like a sicko at Ephraim Radner’s admission that all Protestant ecclesiologies ultimately tend towards congregationalism.

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