The Spy Museum used to be in this building, and put up James Bond villain displays in windows before they moved. Nobody replaced them. So every Christmas, Xenia Onatopp and Largo look down menacingly on shoppers.

Out with "voluntold", in with, "you have chosen, or been chosen by our benefactors"

I will never mark an e-mail as High Importance. The recipient will know from just seeing my name that the message will be packed so full of invaluable insights and devastating bon mots that classifying it as merely highly important would seem crass.

In some sense I, too, belong here

Buddy, you'd better believe I can overestimate the importance of all kinds of things. In fact, I did so easily. Do NOT try to tell me what is not possible for me to estimate, state, or rate -- under or over -- because I will always be able to. Always.

For sale: Quality of mercy, never strained

Just a few weeks ago I had no idea how many people there are with the thought "what a great day to take my autogyro for a spin" in their heads at any given moment

Once again Woke Hollywood producers have said no to the mere $750 million I need for my painstakingly detailed and highly accurate recreation of one of the most dramatic moments of the 4th century -- but with a surprising modern twist -- The Battle of the MILFian Bridge

lol

please do not allow this shooting to unfairly color your opinion of people who text like they're writing a letter home from the civil war

RIP Saint Jerome, you would have loved having your name attached to this Successories-ass motivational quote

And always pivoting, pivoting, pivoting toward video

Conducting research into an Internet personality and immediately closing the tab upon reading "known for his spunky personality"

walk-off no-swing catcher's interference

Dennis the Peasant is possibly the most vindicated fictional character of all time

Overhearing a French tourist complain about American food except for Chipotle, reminding me that the leading French taco chain is pretending to be Irish and has cheese options like boursin and raclette: o-tacos.com/en/for-the-s...

wikipedia is so important

Please enjoy this table of possible future scenarios from a 1990s paper in a peer-reviewed journal on how to deal with nuclear waste storage in underground repositories in New Mexico. I found it while doing research for an article on nuclear waste storage. "WIPP" means "Waste Isolation Pilot Plant".

To you he may be the dullard reporter who keeps getting ratioed, but to me he's my 3rd worst boss's husband who is, if it can be believed, even smugger in person than while posting.

There's always more to learn about what's going on in the Catholic Church these days

Budapest's tourist restaurants selling less goulash and more langos is yet another sign of the slow, sad decline of international Stew Culture

Just a brutal typo on Ash Wednesday 😂

The arc of history is long and bends toward hearing at length about what beefs your parents have with people they only see on TV

Ah, so that's why I heard someone suddenly exclaim "the sex trafficker!?" in the hallway a minute ago