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Meanwhile, Last Night
"Just an old fashioned."
"Sure. Do you care what bourbon?"
He look quizzically at the waifish earl
Perhaps he wanted his Old Fashion Wisconsin style, with brandy. Being from Minnesota and all.
Fun weekend reading. Love it. Thank you! I had to look up what Balenciaga because that brand is way out of my league (which is Levi 514s sporting “stylish” holes/fading from wallet and cellphone). I was worried you fell off the wagon when I saw the image and title for the article. Glad that wasn’t the case.
Nothing wrong with Levi’s. I keep a shelf full of them. I do the 511s myself, and now that we’re on the subject, let me put every male reader here up on something: You don’t have to spend your life savings to be the best dressed guy in the room, and you damn sure don’t need a suit.
For example, this, right here, is my hands down, favorite combination in my entire closet, and it features Levi’s: https://heisenbergreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/OnlyFitYouNeed-scaled.jpg
That whole look, top to bottom — the hoodie, the belt, the shoes and the Levi’s — can be yours for $1,590 all in. You might say “That’s still a lot of money for one outfit,” and you’d be right, but it’s not just one outfit. Every element in there can be swapped out and inserted into other fits.
If you wear the items shown in that linked picture with a fresh buzz cut and the perfect 5 o’clock shadow, you’ll have very good odds of looking better than any man in damn near any room. I’ll take that fit over any suit on planet Earth, I don’t care how expensive it is.
Caveat: If you’re over 55, you may want to swap out the Jordans for something a little more conservative in the footwear department, and also swap out the hoodie for just a Saint Laurent sweater (i.e., without the hood).
No charge for the fashion advice. Your results may vary.
For the love of God, please start a Culture section of the site. Movies, books, fashion, autos, and perhaps even sports. The more of your thoughts the better. I understand that there is limited time in the day. Maybe a Sunday only Culture post. Just some positive thoughts and encouragement. As always, thanks.
I sure hope my Temu Saint Laurent sweater knockoff isn’t held up because of tariffs and this de mininis stuff.
Well you certainly can’t believe your lying eyes anymore.
Giving the keys to the castle to two megalomaniacs expecting them to respect the confines of the law is delusional. The gloves are off. The last guardrail in democracy is the respect of and the rule of law. Trump clearly has no respect for the law let alone apparently knowledge of the laws of the land.
The Founding Fathers knew this was possible and thought they placed enough traps in place to prevent such an occurrence. But they assumed that rational people would be the decision makers. Clearly an erroneous assumption. Both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court have been captured by deceitful and frankly stupid people. It is sickening to behold.
What the founding fathers gave us is the CHANCE at preventing such an occurrence. Closing the traps was always to be the will of the people. Our leaders, elected politicians, are expected by us to do the heavy lifting for us and close the traps. However the architects of this soft coup have anticipated how to control these elected officials. They however count on the acquiescence of the populace including the privileged class who are content seeing this happen to others. Others today, tomorrow you will be the others.
As a native Minnesotan who has many relatives who believe Minneapolis is an urban hellscape where you’ll be lucky to not get stabbed, I’m embarrassed that one of the loonies escaped and subjected you to that.
Also, notice how once again the White House tries to turn around and accuse others of exactly what they are doing: gaslighting. Who was it that disavowed knowledge of Project 2025? Sure seems like that’s the game plan to me. I’m guessing they think firing all these inspector generals and disbanding congressionally funded agencies is lawful because anything is lawful as long as Trump wields the power of the pardon.
H we need a fashion section.
Re: The white Louis belt, was that with a gold buckle—did you pass up the large gold buckle in shape of X? As to who to believe, I go with Musk. Tisch James is going to lose most of her half billion dollar case against Trump. Musk’s team is still on the field.
No, it came it with a light silver tone buckle and the white side is actually the back side. Most Louis belts are reversible and the buckles are generally interchangeable. The front side of the white one I have is brown “cowmooflage.” I swapped out the silver buckle for a darker tone silver that reflects anthracite grey: https://heisenbergreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG-4889-scaled.jpg
That one you can’t try at home. They still list it online, but you can’t order it. It’s sold out. And mine’s not for sale.
About the judges blocking various DOGE actions: Anyone taking bets on Trump expanding/packing the courts if the supremes somehow manage to grow spines?
That will take time. First congress to act on amending rules, then appointments to be confirmed. The alternative would be to trash the rules, the constitution and attempt a presidential appointment without senate confirmation.
Won’t happen for now. Still enough traditionalists around. I do wonder where the thanks are to Mr. Manchin and Ms. Sinema for saving the filibuster. Notice that there has been zero discussion of abandoning it from Leader Thune? Do all the Democrats who pleaded for its termination still feel that way? Imagine what a situation we’d have on our hands if Mr. Schumer were successful in terminating the filibuster.
Democrats complaining about Manchin was one of the dumbest takes they’ve had. He was a democrat in a deep red state where they otherwise had zero shot to ever keep a seat. While I wish Manchin had been willing to be bolder, I understand why he wasn’t and it was silly of democrats to hope for much of anything beyond what they did get from him.
Sinema was an opportunist though and I have no love lost there. She’ll probably be next in line for Trump’s cabinet when Tulsi and RFJ Jr. run out of steam. I’m afraid Fetterman is headed down that same path.
You do realize (I hope) that with your fashion comments you are parodying American Psycho (the book, not necessarily the movie).
I come for the analysis but I stay for the fashion tips. And Chappelle references.
In the end, laws can’t speak for themselves or enforce themselves any more than other imaginary constructs. If Trump is more popular than your judiciary, your legislative branch, and your administrative stare, and willing to not be bound by them, then who knows what he can or can’t do? Probably not even himself. History will tell. And even then, it will tell what became the truth for those who write it.
P.s. speaking of history…
We have possibly a dictator (time will tell?) in the only superpower in the world, a globe about to burn up, plastics accumulating in everything living, and artificial general intelligence on the horizon. And all this in the era of post-truth; American news is so divergent depending on the partisan lean of the news organization that it’s hard to say what is even true.
Sure wish there were an alternative to Mag 7, but oh well. Of course, virtual money might not matter in the future at all, or it might be the only thing that matters. What a time to be alive! In school I was taught that history might have ended (Fukuyama’s theory). That one didn’t age well.
It’s great to have the Heisenberg report. This is some of the news from America I trust.
However there is a lot to be hopeful for.
USA has now 50 GW annual solar panel production capacity. Equivalent to 50 third generation nuclear plants per year.
Doped sponges are available to separate microplastics, phosphates and copper from waste water. Not sure if we can do this on a river scale or not.
My EV costs me 1/3 the cost of gasoline. A 65% cash discount on fuel speaks more loudly than any politician.
We have each other. Which is stronger than the entire political apparatus in D.C.
Three old fashionds, a brown ale and a burger for $50?? You are in RURAL SC, H!
Can’t get that here, especially with Buffalo Trace.
Yep. I was hoping someone would notice that. It was wild how low the cost of living apparently is there. On Saturday morning I went to a gourmet gelato shop and it was the same thing. I ordered a large thinking… well, have you ever ordered gourmet gelato? If anyone remembers the farm-to-table restaurant I profiled in the January 2024 Monthly Letter (“The Loners”), one tiny “scoop” of their house-made gelato is $9, and you get barely more than a tablespoon. I paid $11 at that place in South Carolina, but they handed me a 1990s-style, Baskin-Robbins sized, mall serving. It was a straight up, literal large. There were no tables or chairs in there, and I couldn’t take it in the car because it would’ve melted all over the place by the time I finished it, so I went outside and sat on the curb (an actual street curb) and ate that whole damn cup, which was probably — God, I don’t know — a pint, probably.
I just hope that Friday night, you went to dinner somewhere that had outstanding food and you went with an enjoyable dinner companion. 🙂
That was Friday night, unfortunately. Last night was driving and, eventually, Cheerios and banana when I finally made it back.
As I feared. It is hard for me not to remain hopeful, however. 🙂
I didn’t think it was possible to be a solar panel salesman AND vote for KAOS! Who knew?
Kinda like being a fish and being outraged by the Clean Water Act.
Yes, that’s what I thought too.