major sign that we have become boring is young people romanticizing jfk jr and carolyn bessette, two of the most boring people on the planet, 30 years after the fact
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major sign that we have become boring is young people romanticizing jfk jr and carolyn bessette, two of the most boring people on the planet, 30 years after the fact
My sense is Paxton doesn't want a Talarico victory speech tonight, just wants to create havoc and division in case he wins the runoff.
I've been watching a ton of world cup races over the last few years, and I think it was an innovation for this Olympics. It sort of looks like war photography or something.
As furious as I've been with Schumer about his tepidity during the last year, his lack of feel for candidate recruitment has been even worse. Mills is a dud, I'm sorry; he's backing Haley Stevens against two way-more-exciting candidates in MI. It's not a new problem, either.
I know at least 5 random friends from high school living in ME, and somehow all of them would do better than this.
I can't believe we're going to blow the Maine seat again. It's nuts that we didn't get it in 2020, and it's unbelievable that our chances in 2026 lie with a near-octogenarian running an anemic campaign and an unreconstructed internet-edgelord dipshit.
One week later, many fewer eyeballs on her, Jessie Diggins still going to the basement on the world cup circuit (2nd today!)
If memory serves, the Olympics missed a barn-burner of a sprint to the finish. As the calendar flips back to the WC season, we got one today at the Falun skiathlon. Heidi Weng, Frida Karlsson and Diggins broke the race open with a few km to go, and then Weng *barely* pips Diggins at the finish.
I'm sure there's a Latin or German word for squandering-the-good-will-accrued-as-a-fruit-of-the-squandering
What an image.
Watching the replay of the mass start speed skating - what a great event that I've slept on! - and I'm so glad that Austrian Gabriel Odor and Belgian Bart Swings both made the finals. Working our way up to an all-hilarious-name field.
Made a particularly good omelette this morning and exclaimed "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKIN' TALLLKING ABOUT!" to no one in particular. Felt great.
The breakout guy is, again, a French skier: Theo Schely, who has *barely* scratched the top 10 on the WC, and finished 5th here. Hats off to the team for nailing their prep and their skis here, they and (at a somewhat lower level) Canada and GBR are the big stories among the non-powerhouse nations.
Nyenget tries 8 ways from Sunday to drop Klaebo, and fails. Emil Iversen skis with the leaders for 95% of the race and falls back to bronze (still an incredible year.) Gus races in every event, finishes respectable 13th.
There's really nothing to said about this. Every single race, we expected him to do it, and he did it, often in the most spectacular fashion. Why get up at 4:45 in the morning to watch a 2+ hour race with an extremely predictable outcome? This is why.
if Secretariat were a human being
Yes. Take a shot of espresso every time they mention tricky waxing conditions!
There are film critics, and there are film critics who will hit you with an out-of-nowhere elder-millenial Nintendo reference in the first full paragraph. @alissawilkinson.bsky.social is the second type. Highly recommend.
There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange
*BIG* win against the Trump admin.
Philly was the first to sue over removal of exhibits — panels about Washington's slaves — in line with Trump's "corrosive ideology" order.
The city won in court. The feds appealed & requested a stay — then complied this morning. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
Big fan of Maja Dahlquist, who steps in for a sick Linn Svahn and gets her first gold medal.
Diggins and Kern finish fifth, which has to be a disappointment coming off a silver in the world champs last year. Diggins tried to make it a Sweden/USA showdown in the early laps, but they were bunching up on the hills and the Swedes wound up breaking away instead.
Gus Schumacher and Ben Ogden hooting behind an American flag
Another medal in XC skiing! Hell yeah. Ben Ogden and Gus Schumacher pull off a just-about tactically-perfect race for silver in the team sprint. I am dumb enough to have briefly believed that Schumacher would go with Klaebo at the end, which is mostly a testament to how well he was skiing.
That’s Dan❤️🩹🦅
Other stories from today: clearly Desloges has jarred something loose at just the right time; Canada keeps surprising us (Tom Stephen in 9th); terrible day for the US except for John Steel Hagenbuch in 14th; GB skier Andrew Musgrave would like to you know that when the sun is out, the guns are out.
But he did today!
Even when he loses on the World Cup, it usually seems like a rare miss on skis or on tactics, or maybe he's getting sick; I haven't always known if he has the capacity to ski at his absolute outer limit (a la Diggins or sometimes Frida), because he never needs to.
This is particularly true of today's 10K skate, a race he visibly fought to win. (Complete with a collapse at the end!)
