"The game was created to demonstrate the futility of individual effort.”

Practicing my First Amendment rights to worship as my conscience dictates.

Honestly, nobody benefits from that more than Canada.

Gregor Kobel is caught in a time loop and the same thing keeps happening to him

Oh, man, did I just wake the dog up in response to that Qatar goal.

This QUT/SUI game is playing a little tighter and a little more open that I might have imagined here over the last 15 minutes or so.

This was Hemmingway's first draft: For sale: toilet; only flushed twice

So the small humans wanted to buy "some dresses" for my partner for her upcoming birthday from LOFT. Great. Huge sale this weekend. Perfect timing, kids. They work through and pick out three. I go through the order, but can't find a place to ask for a gift receipt, which seems, you know ...

Thinking about Rubio talking about how the UFC is intrinsically American is probably right, at least in the MAGA context, but definitely not in the way that Marco meant.

I do think the continual desecration of our public monuments and the use of our public spaces for private gain, (not to mention the lingering trauma of the assault on our democracy Jan 6 2021,) is a serious public harm that has to be reckoned with.

One thing I like about this ref cam is that it shows just how athletic the refs are. They do an incredible job in following rapidly developing plays.

Midsommarfest has produced an absolutely worn out puppy. Not pictured: The air conditioning vent that he is merrily sleeping on top of.

Casually attempting to ensure that Ozzie doesn’t get overeager to meet Anthony Rapp at Midsommarfest. Because…

I think that Ozzie and I consider this beneath both of our dignities.

Art critic David Bourdon described Christo's wrappings as a "revelation through concealment"

I consider it a personal failing that I didn’t make any Newsies references last night. That’s solidly within my wheelhouse. In retrospect it’s obvious. I’m embarrassed.

I’m entertained by Geostorm because why not, right? But I feel like Geostorm misses an opportunity to really think about why weather control might be a bad idea (even if it was possible) by instead making it a bad guy does bad things movie.

Hit dogs holler.

this to me, is the promise of america

The most interesting World Cup match today is Haiti v Scotland.

Last night’s past-the-deadline removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center squeezes into this. Looking at the way the whole thing went down (from the people making the decisions to the lawyers to the workers to the crowd) you can just feel the potential energy that’s being fed into the system.

More footage of what seems like the moment when they took the letters down as best as anybody there could tell

If I was filing the inevitable petition for rule to show cause in this case, I would certainly be noting how much delay in compliance with the order was attributed to time spent putting up a tarp to block viewing.

A watched pot never boils, I suppose.

11pm: i'll just watch until they start midnight: okay just until the first letter comes down 1am: i have transcended sleep. i am one with the scaffolding.

This scaffolding is for emotional support at this point

If I was filing the inevitable petition for rule to show cause in this case, I would certainly be noting how much delay in compliance with the order was attributed to time spent putting up a tarp to block viewing.

“Get some women up there and they’ll get it done!”

TBH, I’m kinda still watching because I think that the number of folks watching this at midnight on a Friday is going to show up in some memo when people start discussing detrumpification.

Just in case Dems wonder if they should include tearing down the ballroom and the arch

I’m at the bread and circuses. I’m at the damnatio memoriae. I’m at the combination bread and circuses damnatio memoriae

they better start doing cell block tango up there or something, this is excruciating

I want to be friends with the people in the crowd on the CSPAN feed.

Look man I’ve been saying that a televised tribunal would be the most-watched viewing event in American history

the scaffolding will continue until morale improves

Citizens gathering to enforce a court's order means technically the folks at the Kennedy Center tonight are a posse comitatus.

it's nice when we all gather to discuss the whether

The presence of Stu Holden on the English language feed means that my incredibly rusty Spanish is going to get a significant workout over the next 29 days.

I’ve read Dan Brown books with more subtle symbolism.

Canada has equalized. They will go ahead before we reach stoppage time.

Ozzie is learning about soccer noises.

Canada is going to win this game. And the two goals are going to come in rapid succession.

Oh, Canada.

I love the uspspspsps

I'm inclined to agree with this. There are many ways in which getting rid of grades would make higher education better, and in the environment where AI is increasingly accessible eliminating grades has moved from "probably a good idea" to "probably necessary."

Thinking about Rubio talking about how the UFC is intrinsically American is probably right, at least in the MAGA context, but definitely not in the way that Marco meant.