<![CDATA[Welcome to Joy's House! : Almost Famous]]>https://www.joyannreid.com/s/almost-famoushttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OIWS!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71f1364c-e204-4c26-a51f-a73aed5c428e_1280x1280.pngWelcome to Joy's House! : Almost Famoushttps://www.joyannreid.com/s/almost-famousSubstackSat, 11 Apr 2026 06:19:25 GMT<![CDATA[Armageddon Anyone?]]>https://www.joyannreid.com/p/armageddon-anyonehttps://www.joyannreid.com/p/armageddon-anyoneThu, 02 Apr 2026 01:59:25 GMT

The Problem With Nostalgia

I've been thinking lately about nostalgia, the concept of existential collapse (basically, the moment when one's sense of identity falls apart) and America. Remember the movie Pleasantville where siblings played by Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire are transported from 1998 and their collapsing homelife into a black and whit…

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]]><![CDATA[They're Just Not That Into You]]>https://www.joyannreid.com/p/theyre-just-not-that-into-youhttps://www.joyannreid.com/p/theyre-just-not-that-into-youSat, 14 Mar 2026 23:48:29 GMTStemming the the Tide

Walt Disney’s Jiminy Cricket

CBS chief Bari Weiss wants MAGA and she thinks Joe Rogan is just the ticket. I'm old enough to remember the TV show The Wonderful World of Disney. You reluctantly knew the show was winding down when Jiminy Cricket came on and sang:

"Curiosity, people say

Killed the kitty cat

One fine day"

It's 1979 and a cart…

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]]><![CDATA[ASSASSINS]]>https://www.joyannreid.com/p/assassinshttps://www.joyannreid.com/p/assassinsWed, 11 Mar 2026 05:05:01 GMTMar 10, 2026

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]]><![CDATA[So What?]]>https://www.joyannreid.com/p/so-whathttps://www.joyannreid.com/p/so-whatWed, 18 Feb 2026 21:26:10 GMT

There's a disconnect. Something I can't put my finger on. “Pedophile ring. Release the files. Files released. Shut up about the files.” Two decades’ worth of shouting into the void and nothing. Now Jamie Raskin says there's even a nine year-old.

It's not a sudden surge of concern for women and girls, otherwise rape wouldn't be a thing. I get that. Nick …

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]]><![CDATA[The Sin of Empathy?]]>https://www.joyannreid.com/p/the-sin-of-empathy-0f7https://www.joyannreid.com/p/the-sin-of-empathy-0f7Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:58:32 GMT

I heard the title on Joy's podcast: Joe Rigney. The premise, if I dare to wade in, is that empathy disables right-thinking Christian compassion and it's capacity to distinguish sinner from sin (thereby excusing and even enabling said sin). God said “X,” according to this thinking I guess, and anything that strays from His word and that lands the doer i…

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