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REPORTER: What’s your favorite book?

POLITICIAN: The Bible

REPORTER: What’s your favorite non-fiction book?

Except at pretentious elite institutions, where of course they are known as trust-autumn accidents

No particular ongoing-news reason that made me think of this

YOU: You're early, how'd you get here so fast?
THEM: We ignored all the speed limits, red lights, and stop signs
YOU: You did WHAT?!?
THEM: You're not happy to see us?

IKEA is just LEGO with consequences

You see, kind sir, your looksmaxxing will one day fade, but I—I shall remain on fleek forever

I had a bobsled question yesterday: does the shouting at the start convey any information or help the pushers stay in sync? Or is it purely for hype? And if for hype, are there teams that just ask their coach to shut up?
Thank you!!

Do you ever worry you might have the wrong kind of anxiety?

Headline: "Raccoon busts through ceiling at LGA next to Spirit Airlines gate"

"oh good, the pilot's here"
—the waiting passengers

Your Joke is Factually Incorrect: A Guide to Dying Alone

Norwegians are from Norway
Therefore I can only assume that:
Glaswegians are from Glasway

Checking out what the guy who said "Dress for the job you want" is wearing
(My dream is to tell people how they should dress)

The TV says "short program" but every single one of these figure skaters is in a skirt

Pigeons can't be trusted in positions of political influence because they might try to start a coo

e-stone-ia, do I have to explain everything

NYT Spelling Bee saying "Not in word list" to "Embiggen"

Well I think they should, uh, expand their word list then

Careful; violence just baguettes more violence

One of the curses of Econ Brain is the belief that because markets make things more efficient (which, look, I'm a dirty capitalist, this is mostly true), more areas of life shd be turned over to markety mechanisms
But not every aspect of existence needs be efficient. That's not what being human is!

e-stone-ia, do I have to explain everything

It's in-groups and out-groups again
Attacking/killing the latter is presumptively ok
Being mean to the former—that's a sin not only in itself but also because it threatens to delegitimize the whole enterprise!
Showing proper respect to Reiner would demonstrate targets aren't chosen indiscriminately

When we were young nobody even thought about inventing scenarios this depraved. Just shows how much society has gone backwards, and it would only be far, far worse if not for your vigilant scenario-inventing

Can't believe people are focusing on insignificant details like "did this actually happen?" and ignoring what this tells us about the moral rot at the heart of modernity

dog souls love to stick their heads out of the cloud as they ascend to Heaven

Weird choice to have Kid Rock's "alternate" halftime performance be live from Epstein Island

Credit to Tara and Johnny, who do a lot less of this

Watching curling and I feel like Estonia would dominate if this was played online

The Brutalists' most vicious rivals just called them Concretins

The operative word in the right's insistence that "facts don't care about your feelings" was always "your"

This story was mentioned in the NY Times exactly twice through all of the 20th century; both times obliquely:
The articles covered a dispute between the NAACP and the IWO over funds raised for the family

RIP to the inventor of the Negroni