Sounds good to me!

Not really dependent on foreign oil -
more dependent on foreign oil refineries - but still dumb

These days Vatican City cops are letting Donatists off with a fine!

Has the violent crime rate in Vatican City risen since he took office?

So good

Okay, maybe not Canada but should New Zealand join the EU?

I have a feeling the front is going to be something about the Administrative Procedures Act and the Seelie Court stuff is for paying subscribers

You have to admit Teri Garr kills it in the Ronnie Hawkins role

Don’t you mean “while a headline referred to NATO as the North American Treaty Organization, some experts showed skepticism over the term”?

I had the kessel runs for 12 parsecs

Take my money! and then be very vague when I ask you how work on it is going.

I’ve watched that first six minutes so many times because I watch movies while I’m doing dishes and I would continually get interrupted five minutes in and start over at the beginning and also because it was good.

I swear there was one on the wing of my plane but no one else believed me

I imagine most people who consent to such activity only do so on the assumption of erectile dysfunction

What if fossil fuels were a giffen good that could only be purchased with a currency pegged to the value of decarbonized electricity?

My understanding is that there is a pattern of asymmetric response to the survey, with firms doing badly or going bankrupt sending responses late or not at all.

Why are they going over land when they could have the eagles carry it to the ocean?

War! What is it good for? Reducing shipping requirements under the Jones Act, say it again!

Great use of the Mencius dialogue meme the kids are all using

It was only 33 minutes when you include ad breaks anyways

Witness? Babe?

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Oooh, this is super interesting for nerds like me...

Yes, definitely

¡IEEPA, IEEPA! ¡Ándale, Ándale!

One of the oldest themes in literature is man vs. nature forecast

Chained Beef!

A Twitter thread by David Rees from 2017/05/17, part one: "RE: #ComeyFiring, I think the GOP will now go along with anything Trump does. I mean literally anything. It’s TIME FOR SOME SHAME THEORY! I believed GOP was going along with DJT because they thought he could get them their precious policy outcomes: tax cuts, etc. -- and, that if DJT’s malfeasance ever decreased their chances of enacting those policies, they would jettison him. I now think this political calculus has been replaced by a deeper, darker, calculus: a psychological survival strategy. GOP will agree to anything - I mean anything - because they can no longer afford a moral reckoning with what who and what they’ve enabled. Once you've gone so far that checking in with yourself would shatter your belief in your own humanity/decency, there are no limits."

A Twitter thread by David Rees from 2017/05/17, part two: "At this point, there are probably GOPers who wish Trump would suspend the constitution outright. Really just GO FOR IT, so that we leave this liminal, sorta-not-quite-authoritarian space with its semi-sorta-functional institutions behind, and enter a new American era, where their collusion/treason(?) can't be judged by old norms. If you've ever had an affair, or drug issues, etc, you probably know the feeling. The bender/lost weekend/flirtation with hitting bottom. At some point, your shame at your behavior, at the norms you’ve violated, leads you to double down, go ALL IN, obliterate your old self. I used to be a bully in middle school, so I know this amazing, complex feeling of exhilaration and revulsion, the poison rush of living your worst self, resenting *the part of you that knows better.* Not enough to ignore it; you must destroy it."

A Twitter thread by David Rees from 2017/05/17, part three: "Congress had to enter DJT’s orbit in order to pass their sacred tax cuts/repeal the hated ACA. They thought they could contain him. But DJT poisons everyone he touches. The price for working with him is pretty hefty: your humanity and dignity (h/t @joshtpm). Healthy people (and banks!) learned to avoid DJT decades ago. He surrounds himself with damaged goods: Stone, Flynn, other freaks/losers. We are watching that community of damaged psyches expand to include an entire political party. GOP pols must avoid a moral reckoning at all costs. But not just a public reckoning -- a private one. Can’t admit to moral suicide. If #TrumpTrain stopped, GOP would have to answer for putting up with PussyGate, deranged tweets, lies, damaged institutions, all the Russia stuff, etc. etc. The list is overwhelming, unprecedented, debilitating. That reckoning absolutely cannot happen."

A Twitter thread by David Rees from 2017/05/17, part four: "Trump, an experienced abuser, knows this on some lizard-brain level. He has captured the GOP. His transgressions will increase. “Comey was irresponsible about HRC” is deliberately absurd; a power move by Trump to see if GOP will agree to any reality he proposes. Answer: YES. #winning Back to the bender analogy. We’re in the middle of a crazy bender. What would bottoming out look like, when GOP says: ENOUGH? My theory: As of yesterday’s preposterous justification for Comey firing, there is no bottom. The GOP will never call Trump out. In fact, GOP pols must now encourage further transgressions, to destroy the current context in which feeling shame re: DJT is appropriate. Maybe I’m wrong! But my prediction is GOP would agree with DJT if/when he says he’s canceling the 2018 midterms. THE END"

Your point reminds me of a very astute Twitter thread about shame, by David Rees (of Get Your War On fame), from early in Trump's first term. It's hard to find now, so I'm going to post the whole thing here.

JD Vance should have been sold by his mother for drugs, NYT columnist says New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested Vice President JD Vance's mother was reasonable when attempting to sell him for drugs during his childhood.

this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...