At this point, I don’t know whether to be glad that the latest crazy appears to be winding down or worried that this is just an opportunity to find a totally new, undefined crazy.

And now, we get to the Viewer Mailbag segment of the program. I’m not really a “When they go low, I go high” guy. I’m more of a “When they go low, I help them realize how much better the world is when you don’t go low” guy.

This week I learned that the surname of Iceland’s Prime Minister literally means “Frosty’s Daughter” and honestly this gives me enough joy to face the week ahead.

How I arrived on Bluesky

Looks like Jacobs is double touching an Olympic gold.

This is going to upset a lot of people when they realize that this guy has Prime JFK Skills. He’s got to govern well, of course, but this guy is better at politics than most of us are at things.

When was the narrative taken back?

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Turns out you can do a whole new “We Didn’t Start The Fire” based on the crazy 💩 Trump did since Jan 1st.

Funny sports comment, but the New England Patriots are decidedly not the Americans in most concerned about getting away with it right now.

Apparently Trump has revoked Canada’s invite to pay a billion dollars to sit on his Board of Peace, so we’ll just have to watch the live feed.

It’s just surprising, given the historically high standards of FIFA Peace Prize laureates.

Mamdani Lowers Crime Rate On Day One

Bari Weiss: finally, I have the ultimate power to keep this critical 60 minutes segment from ever seeing the light of day Canada:

Nor should you. Apologizing for being JD Vance, though…

MAGAZINER: A hardworking man w/no criminal record who raised 3 sons to be Marines -- ICE agents tackled him while he was mowing lawn & imprisoned him. Will you consider him for parole? NOEM: Everyone in this country illegally has an opportunity to voluntarily go home M: He raised 3 Marines

Oh, well… I wasn’t going anyway.

So, if 20 years ago someone said “Here’s an idea. Let’s find 10 of the most socially awkward tech nerds we got, make them so rich they live outside everyone’s daily reality, and then they’ll design most of our social interactions around their profitability”, you’d have shut that down, right? RIGHT?!

“….or, then, what if we had all 300 million Americans in a group plan, and every citizen could vote for the people who ran the plan and those people didn’t have to extract a profit, and this elected entity negotiated for EVERY SINGLE….oh, shit…wait a minute….”

This is absolutely correct. Some are using the legitimacy of the prerogative to defend the overuse and abuse. And for those who say “Ah, but the notwithstanding clause is in the Constitution”, I’d answer that so is the federal power of disallowance, but no one wants that to be suddenly normalized.

Really excited for this Friday’s show at the Comic Sutra. This is going to be an amazing double bill.

I’m looking forward to this show Friday at the Comic Sutra. These are three comics I love for their great writing and unique delivery. This was one of the shows I was most excited to book.

Um….i feel like this might be a bigger deal than the media reporting would make it out to be.

Really proud of the all-New Brunswick lineup for our 2nd season at the Comic Sutra Comedy Club. Thirty shows, 70 comedians….all New Brunswick.

….including President Trump, which is kind of the scary part about this.

JFC. I hope this gets smashed so frigging hard that even AI bots immediately warn anyone else thinking of this idea to abandon it immediately.

Bracing for a 70% tariff on bagpipes.

Speaking as a Packers fan and shareholder, man, I hope this guy stays as normal and decent as he appears. The last two were fun on the field but became such benighted douchecanoes.

This guy is really good at this. Policy can be debated. The skill here is not.

It’s usually equally stupid, but the stagecraft of this particular stupidity is genuinely creative.

Looking at a lost 80s hit from a blues legend. open.substack.com/pub/kellylam...

OK: Springsteen, “Letter To You” Jelly Roll, “Beautifully Broken” Peter Wolf, “Midnight Souvenirs” Killers, “Sam’s Town” Teddy Swims, “Everything But Therapy” Shaboozey, “Where I’ve Been” Gord Downie, “Introduce Yerself” Leonard, “You Want It Darker” Alan Doyle, “Boy On Bridge” The Eminem Show

The cruelty is the point.

Since we’re overthinking Daniel Tiger for fun (a subject I have been studying as a toddler’s dad), I’m looking at the poster’s theory that an inordinate amount of work by the neighborhood’s resident’s appears to be uncompensated work for the benefit of the royal family’s enterprises.

The only logical flaw here is presenting “cool” and “nostalgic” as a mutually exclusive binary, but it’s factually solid. Me, I am one cool, nostalgic bastard.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm theme is genuinely underrated as a soundtrack for mockery.

How’s she goin’ ?

They’re both right.

Oh.

My opinion is somewhat biased as a co-owner of the club, but I am quite proud of this lineup of shows at the Comic Sutra Comedy Club.

“That flag above the courthouse Means certain things are carved in stone…. Who we are, what we’ll do And what we won’t”

Hey, look…it’s the Mario to JD Vance’s Wario.

China does not require this, actually. Just so we all know the level of authoritarianism towards which the US is slouching.

Righteous.

Forty years after “The Breakfast Club” enchanted young Gen Xers like me, the cast had a reunion. I accept that they’ve aged. We all have. But it’s weird that Anthony Michael Hall now could clearly kick Judd Nelson’s ass, isn’t it?

In similar news, I’m starting to think this might not be the Vancouver Canucks’ year to win it all.

This is the most interesting point in the whole 💩show. That tariffs would hurt stocks is orthodoxy. But the US dollar and treasury bonds normally go up with market instability. That they are also falling shows smart money knows Trump IS the instability, and they’ve bet against America under him.

My show at Comic Sutra tonight is sold out, but Saturday still has tickets left.

And we’ve heard that argument and informed him that he can take a long walk off a short pier and hump a seal. We done here?