Apart from everything else, the idea that Bernie Goetz-era mass transit was safer than today’s is insane

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My gift to my other brother was a 28-page zine of Dennis the Menace cartoons with captions from The Far Side, inspired by the time a newspaper in Dayton repeatedly switched the captions for The Far Side and Dennis the Menace

Get in losers, we’re drinking 5 Allagash Whites and watching Serpico

Local newspaper in Stjørdal has an article on "what's happening locally during Christmas." The main photo is the annual stjørdalsøl tasting at a cabin in the woods on the 26th. Note how many of them have knitted wrappers for their beer bottles so they won't get too cold.

Part of me is glad the story broke this way. If 60 Minutes had aired it as scheduled, it probably would never have been shared beyond 60 Minutes. Because Weiss pulled the story, it is now a major topic of national discussion.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

I come to bury Weiss, not to praise her

Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit

Extremism in defense of liberty is no Weiss

Welcome to 60 Minutes. Our top story tonight is Snakes: Nature’s Spaghetti

Hypocrisy is the tribute that Weiss pays to virtue

I come to bury Weiss, not to praise her

If you have ever reported on an even mildly conflictual story, this becomes obvious to you once you've got about two phone calls in.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Are... are the public safety leaders drunk and drugged?

wazzzaaaa dude happy birthday lol 😝 hope you’re having a good one wish i was there Also we all know the secret we share. Into the depths of darkness men like us tread. The hunger that drives us away from the light.

he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post

What do we have here? Guesses? Sound off in Awais’s replies

The world is ready for English Rambo

I worked at Argos while at sixth form, and a customer once brought in a slice of bread as evidence his toaster wasn't working.

My favorite tyrant joke: a man comes every day and peers at the front page of the newspaper without buying it. The newspaper vendor says, "what are you looking for?" "An obituary." "Obituaries aren't on the front page." "This one will be."

FUCK

There is something darkly funny about Donald Trump's vice president condemning "ethnic grievance." Your whole platform is ethnic grievance! Like "identity politics" and "political correctness," somehow the term never applies when WE do it.

Reading about the death of Arius

all that is true and noble, just and pure, loveable and gracious, excellent and admirable

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

MacAbees, hmmm

GOD: if my commandments get 50,000 likes, i will tell Abraham to kill his son

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

This is great. The fight is not over but when he was in El Salvador it seemed this day would never come. I am not going to forget the bravery of Senator Van Hollen.

The heist, "caught on film", had texture and warmth and an indescribable aura of authenticity that it would have lacked had it been shot with digital cameras.

People should do what makes them happy, and caffeine isn’t for everyone, but it’s worth noting that black coffee is good for you on balance, so there’s not a tradeoff for most people. It’s a win-win.

The Conversation

“Well, hey … these things just snap right off.”

"there's a new serif in town"

Hochul signed the crypto amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code. This is a huge embarrassment and a policy disaster. (I am not blaming her in particular, this law has been passed by a lot of states.) The way the crypto industry corrupted the ULC and the legal profession generally is horrific.

Also from @excitedstoat.bsky.social

Carnation milk is the best in the land. I’ve got a can of it here in my hand — No teats to pull, no hay to pitch: You just punch a hole in the son of a bitch. (Anonymous, hat tip @excitedstoat.bsky.social who also pointed me to the Clive James poem)

Though I suppose I had endurance, toughness, faith, Sensitivity, intelligence and talent. My mind’s not right. With groined, sinning eyeballs I write sonnets until dawn Is published over London like rows of books by Faber – Then shave myself with Uncle’s full-dress sabre.

I’ve had two excellent ciders lately: Scrumpy Ewe’s Stonecutter cider is always exquisite. The other really good one was a single variety Puget Spice from Eve’s, sadly not available at the moment on their website. It is labeled as dry but it seems fairly sweet to me. Intensely tart. Delicious.

My darkest thoughts these days are about how all crimes in DC are, as I understand it, federal and therefore within Trump’s power to pardon

I think if Gladstone came back today he would personally drown Starmer in the River Severn