Tort reform NOW: "A pair of class-action lawsuits slams Costco’s iconic $4.99 rotisserie chicken" www.oregonlive.com/retail/2026/...

Taking a break on here for lent

I’ve had the privilege of seeing some great speakers (Obama, eg) and some not great speakers (Mike Huckabee). Jesse Jackson was the best

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staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

The late great Steve Horwitz, less than a month into the first Trump presidency, already fully understanding the shape of things:

From @fbarchaeology.bsky.social includes a 1904 chart. open.substack.com/pub/browntim...

Hat tip to @huskermax.bsky.social for pointing me to this 1907 game possession chart (via newspapers.com) published by the @startribune.com detailing an 8-5 victory by Minnesota over Nebraska. Kicks, rushes, fumbles, penalties, and a 110-yard field. Haven't come across an older cfb game chart yet...

Whenever I feel a little down I remember I have no idea what Mr Beast sounds like and I feel a little better

People gotta stop talking politics out loud on this website man. It’s making you dumber. It’s making me dumber. Nobody is learning anything but we sure are mad

She said I’m unrecognizable without my wife, to which I’d have to agree

A cashier at the grocery store thought I was someone else a while ago but I played along thinking she wouldn’t remember me after that. Well she does and keeping the charade up has made the grocery store way more high stakes than it should be

He wasn’t a war time consigliere but he was a hell of an actor

instantly googled to see who #47 is and now sammy brown is my favorite player in college football

MY COLUMN(UNIST MANIFESTO): I wrote about Indiana's incredible rise, JMU and the G6, 2005 Boise State-Georgia, manifest destiny, Frank Broyles, fainting couches and the super-league consolidation forces that threaten to make college football less college football-like. www.espn.com/college-foot...

"Trump’s Trade Moves Are Making Everyone Else Great Again" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

This Black History Month, be sure to hear and tell your stories. In the Green Book Project, we’re using that oral history to map out how Black people navigated segregation. Your contributions to the community map preserve history: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap

@closo.bsky.social if you can’t make a point without being racist you don’t have a point to make

you’ll never take me alive

I try to live a puff-piece life. Like when I’m 5 years from death, a life that is maybe a little eccentric but generally positive and hopefully interesting…something local papers used to write puff-pieces on. Headline like “local octogenarian has large collection of Ryan Klesko memorabilia”

At whatever age it happens, figuring out that you don't need world-historical greatness or wealth or power to be happy is the key that opens the doors of happiness.

Brother

Our? *OUR*? Ha. Haha

A testament to a solid blocking strategy, the arguments in these replies aren’t tankies saying “nuh uh” but people arguing over whether it was Mao or Stalin who holds the record

sadly the world Communist killing record continues to be held by Communist countries by a long, long distance.

Dawn Staley and South Carolina take down Kim Mulkey and LSU. It's Staley's 500th career win at South Carolina, and it's 18 straight wins for the Gamecocks vs LSU. Ryan Ruocco had the ESPN on ABC call. 🏀🎙️

Valentine’s Day is named after Gary Valentine who invented sex on this day in 1969

This is such terrible advice that I should use it to update my example of when stretching your y-axis is misleading, and truncating your y-axis is fine. Hint: Only a fraction of people in a trial will get infected regardless.

A federal judge ruled Friday that Brian Flores' discrimination lawsuit against the NFL can move forward in open court, instead of arbitration.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

The scoring when Myles finds out the Prowler is his uncle in Into the Spider-verse is just incredible. I never get over it

in what has turned out to be an excellent prank by 2009 jon, i just got a notification from google calendar that i have "penis surgery" scheduled for today. in the year 2026

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*strums guitar* let me tell you about someone else who was denied three times before making an epic comeback

I talked to Carrie Prejean Boller about the attempts to remove her from Trump's Religious Liberty Commission, why she rejects charges of anti-Semitism, her views on Zionism, and why she insists Candace Owens has never said anything anti-Semitic. I recommend reading to the end. It takes a turn.

Some comments in Aljazeera: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/... on the AU summit.The destruction of USAID and cuts to health funding are devastating-people have died and it’s a threat to global health security-in between this and the axing of US climate policy, the next pandemic will be horrific

Twenty eight years before Ilia Malinin dazzled at Milan Cortina, Surya Bonaly decided to go out on her own terms — and became the only person to land a backflip on one blade at the Olympic Games ⛸️ Read for free with this gift article from The Athletic’s archives: www.nytimes.com/athletic/313...

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never got around to doing a story on this at my old gig but russ vought used to run multiple twitter accounts for his children where he pretended to be them and talked in baby voice

Every mediocre quarterback after Sam Darnold won the Super Bowl:

here is an essay about Set It Off this is the most important thing i’ve ever written goodmovie.substack.com/p/set-it-off

Albert Breer projects Christian Gonzalez to receive a $35MAPY extension. Here is my guess at what it would like. Agents will focus on the $35M New Money APY while the front office will focus on the $25M Paper Money APY. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHP...

U.S. consumer prices rose 0.2 percent in January and were up 2.4 percent from a year earlier. "Core" prices, excluding food and fuel, were up 0.3 percent month-over-month and 2.5 percent year-over-year. Data: www.bls.gov/news.release... #NumbersDay

[commercial for soup] Have you ever wanted to eat regular food only with water poured all over it? NARRATOR: SOUP

Old enough to remember when Republicans thought armed agents pointing a gun at a scared little Latino boy was an outrage. "Stormtroopers," they said. "Jackbooted thugs."

The latest edition of Works in Progress magazine just arrived! Coming soon to a doorstep near you

If he’s implying that funding buys all the humanities researchers then it’s a monopsony, just by the by