The metric system really is incredible. So much simpler and clearer.

France arrested 2 popes, Pius VI (1799) and Pius VII (1809), but I suppose that expecting these folks to know more than one historical fact about France vs. the papacy is too big an ask.

In 1990, a rapper named Paris put out a song that included the Black Panthers' 10-point program as part of his lyrics and damned if that isn't the only thing I can think of when I read about this "peace settlement" www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8va...

Morbidly curious whether or not nuking Iran would convince other countries to boycott the World Cup. We're in a bad, bad place...

1. We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Community 2. We Want Full Employment For Our People 3. We Want An End To The Robbery By The Capitalists Of Our Black, uh, Iranian Community...

Well, here comes the future and you can't run from it If you've got a Jewlist I wannna be on it

Trump's control over the nuclear arsenal has always been the biggest problem. I don't know how much it would take to get him to nuke the whole planet - not just Iran - but it doesn't seem like it would take much.

Depluralize a movie: The Jake.

Maybe he was giving up profanity for Lent.

Jazz? A bunch, including Christian McBride at his HS talent show & Joshua Redman in 1992 jamming in someone's Brooklyn living room. For other genres - the ones capable of full-blown stardom - my showing up at a gig was pretty much a guarantee that that was as big as the artist was gonna get.

Jazz? A bunch, including Christian McBride at his HS talent show & Joshua Redman in 1992 jamming in someone's Brooklyn living room. For other genres - the ones capable of full-blown stardom - my showing up at a gig was pretty much a guarantee that that was as big as the artist was gonna get.

For here, am I floating in a tin can? Far above the blue Outlook verification factors? 2 And there's nothing I can do

You can take the girl out of Philly...

Seconded with gusto - great #infographics and quality multimedia #journalism to tell the story (so far) of the inquiry exposing the omnishambles of negligence that lead to the horrific tower fires disaster in Hong Kong

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. I'm not a huge decorum guy but I do find myself nostalgic for the version of confrontations between states that did not feature emojis

But we've got, National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week, C'mon Everybody and, Love One Anotherhood Week...

It would behoove Americans to remember that having a stable reliable civil-military relationship is not the historical default - it is unusual, especially in republics. They have forgotten what all those constitutional provisions were for: they might get to be reminded soon enough.

Ok this is way cooler than a normal Reverse Rainbow.

'bout tucking fime. edition.cnn.com/2026/04/02/p...

Gotta give Larson the edge on this one...

The next time they throw us in the ovens, they're going to say that it's because we're antisemitic.

Writer: I want to write a story about a new weapon we're using. Editor: Sounds good. But can you also throw some shade at the US auto makers in the article? Writer: Oh yeah, no problem.

"They're war heroes because they were killed. I like soldiers who weren't killed, okay?"

Every Gen-X lefty like me grew up knowing that: -we could move to a Soviet Bloc country if we wanted to; -we didn't want to.

Trust The Process.

Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

If you have underpaid yet overperforming employees, at a minimum, you should do what you can to keep them and improve their job satisfaction.

the NCAA uploaded raw footage of the UConn buzzer-beater from every camera CBS had in the building to youtube (will drop in the replies) and the best part has to be this hard pan to Dan Hurley's mom yelling HOLY FUCKING SHIT followed by a synchronized simultaneous HOLY SHIT by both Hurley parents

"Immigrants built this country, and we should admire them and respect them." Charles Barkley, Role Model.

A reminder that in the Great National Divorce, we get the NFL. And if that starts with the Dolphins, Bucs, and Jags all leaving Florida, I'm sure that there will be other cities eager to adopt them. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Slept in my Bob Dylan shirt and woke up on Desolation Row.

Took 40-odd years but Bruce has finally allowed "Born in the USA" to be used in a commercial. By the ACLU. Supporting birthright citizenship. Yeah.

[RUN-DMC style] Listen to me spin these rhymes

I'm Still With Her. :-( www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"He killed her. Of course. Caved her head in with the base of a Waring blender. We got there, there was so much blood, you could taste the metal. Moral of the story is–I chose a half measure when I should have gone all the way. I’ll never make that mistake again. No more half measures, Walter."

His story checks out...

"I don't agree with his Bart-killing policy, but I do approve of his Selma-killing policy."

Actually, these are... pretty much the same "doubts" I've had since 2015. The freshness has been gone for a while now.

[Disconcertingly high squeaky voice] Ever since Iran destroyed a major facility in Qatar, helium is in short supply, bringing a threat to superconductor production across the globe... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/b...

[Disconcertingly high squeaky voice] Ever since Iran destroyed a major facility in Qatar, helium is in short supply, bringing a threat to superconductor production across the globe... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/b...

"I don't agree with his Bart-killing policy, but I do approve of his Selma-killing policy."

Actually, these are... pretty much the same "doubts" I've had since 2015. The freshness has been gone for a while now.

Are you a university instructor who would like to support Ukraine? The Flying University for Ukrainian Students organizes remote classes taught by faculty outside Ukraine for students in Ukraine. Those who have done it find it very gratifying. Express your interest here: www.flying-university.org

Multi-day, there've been a bunch. Longest continuous - and in retrospect among the stupidest things I've ever done - was waking up in Central Kansas (~250 miles W. of KC) then driving all day & all night, getting to my dad's in Philly the next morning.

Hey Philly/south jersey folks: Rutgers-Camden Writers House is doing an event at Wildfether in Haddonfield on 4/15. Connect with other readers & writers in the area, have some cocktails, and maybe do some low-stakes writing in fun, supportive atmosphere bt.rutgersfoundation.org/en/8a2AsaS7/...

If you're replying to a post about torched ambulances in London with a point about Israel, you've crossed the line into antisemitism. And you're doing absolutely nothing to help any cause. Even if you consider yourself one of the good people. Maybe especially so. You've just caught racism.

The battle is lost. Quotation marks for "emphasis" have seized power.