Proper Democratic tax reform would have high income wage earners unaffected but car dealers and Elon Musk blowing their own brains out.

We’re a firm with three core competencies: heavy industrial machinery, high-speed trains, and sex toys.

Hello I would like to share with you my new-and-improved website that compiles 46 years' worth of baby-names data in Alberta: albertababynames.com It now includes the latest data (for 2025) and a similar-names function to easily browse through various spellings in naming trends.

My whole life, I have found hate an extraordinarily hard emotion to latch onto for any long period of time. It’s like gripping a scorchingly hot cast iron pan. In some meaningful way, to hate is to destroy a part of yourself. I feel the below deep in my soul and fear I will never unfeel it.

who the fuck is outside my window shouting “restart history! we’re bored!”? show yourself coward, i will never restart history

This passage is the best page in the entire Tolkien Legendarium by a staggering margin, and I am forever mad with how it got whiffed in the (otherwise excellent) films.

being in the room to watch sober minded French protestants discover what their American counterparts have become is near the top of my list of historical moments i wish i was present for

Toy Story 2 is a great movie at all ages, but it is exponentially more devastating in your 30s than when you’re a kid.

Broke: Red Dead Redemption is the greatest Western video game Woke: Fallout New Vegas is the greatest Wester video game

Internet arguing peaked with this flame war and it’s all been downhill since.

We engineered the Most Canadian Man in a lab and then made him play baseball.

Me every 5 pages while reading Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book on the 1929 financial crash: “That’s a pump & dump” “Yup, also a pump & dump” “Oh hey, another pump & dump” “Nice to break up the pump & dump schemes with some insider trading” “Back to our regularly scheduled pump & dump scheme programming”

Hilariously, the only North American jurisdiction that has not seen an attempted rollback is Ottawa-Gatineau, and that’s only because the key active use roadways are controlled by the National Capital Commission rather than by the City (who absolutely would have rolled them back if given the chance)

This is what we need right now. Political leaders with a combination of solid principles and moral courage.

Gone swimming

Dad’s side: accountant for the United Farmers of Alberta’s grocery arm. Mom’s side: army cook, part-time bookkeeper, part-time regional scout for the St. Louis Cardinals.

When I am President, the Coen Brothers will be forcibly conscripted into making a The Yiddish Policemen's Union film adaptation.

Everyone is quick to jump to the gunship levels in CoD games as the point of reference but it really is multiplayer montages of guys getting and then popping off AC-130s or Chopper Gunners

So many smart-guy conversations consist of two dumb bitches telling each other “exaaaaactlyyyy”, & Chotiner adroitly weaponizes that.

Writing like this, with such fierce and uncompromising moral clarity, is a gift to everyone. Caitlín Doherty on the hell of Dubai. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Another really good skateway year in the books

Every day, more people join our cause (the Gulf States being an authoritarian nightmare of slaver landlords)

David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

He's never been more back

as far as i can tell the Old Believers really did get that mad that the spelling errors in the Russian Orthodox liturgy got corrected

i think that the Orthodox Church wins the international competition for weirdest theological beefs but i do think that Islam also wins a prize for making a monarchical succession crisis go on for 1400 years

"Working together onsite is an essential foundation of the strong teams, collaboration and culture needed during this pivotal moment and beyond."

One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Fridays with Tony Dokoupil

cynical pessimists are so BORING, man. grow up, you adolescent dorks.

maybe the most concise 2-sentence summary possible of the entire decade-plus Trump Experience

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

Who'd have thought there'd be this many dumb guys in Dumb Guy Mecca?

In the Old Testament, this is the sort of behaviour that precedes God wiping a civilization from history with more fire and brimstone than created the Siberian Traps.

7am: wake up, 4 tacos + coffee + maybe one beer 8am: run 10 miles 9:30ish: get home, stretch, shower, crush 2 shower beers 10am: post up at El Camino until the job is done. Confident I wouldn't be out later than 11pm.

And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

Tfw your upper classes get annihilated in the trenches despite having very nice sabers and finely trimmed mustache:

The Shutdown Fullcast on NPR has a nice ring to it.

Personally, I would find it difficult to take my CEO's pronouncements on anything seriously if they looked like Rickety Cricket had joined the Aryan Brotherhood.

oh did the people who work for a news outlet called the young turks turn out to be racist again

You think Victor Wembanyama isn't there and then boom there he is and what do you do

Franchise: Zapp Brannigan, but competent. Individual: (1) Man visits lighthouse off the coast of Maine, things go *extremely* sideways. (2) War hero endorses too many shops

"Don't waste peoples' time with noise and grandstanding", says Ottawa City Council's leading expert at wasting peoples' time with noise and grandstanding.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Woke 2, and Hell followed with him

The entire economics profession in unison:

Red Plenty — have you heard of it? The Soviets, they tried using computers, total disaster, but we're doing AI for the minerals, the critical minerals, and it's going to be beautiful. Price floors. China's very upset about it, which tells you it's working. Frankly, the Soviets are jealous too.