video games have killed the natural adolescent male compulsion to learn guitar

The 'warmth of collectivism' in action

(from a New Yorker profile of Hungarian director Radu Jude)

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A top N.J’s breakfast sandwich is gone forever. ‘Rest easy, egg buns.’ This bakery has been trying to get them back for months, but with no success.

The heavy hand of government regulation has killed what was once judged to be the best breakfast sandwich in NJ

www.nj.com/food/2026/04...

NYC baybee

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Not Nermal.

This. Is. Not. Nermal.

Is Trump’s Iran War Like a Katrina Moment? It’s no great insight to say Trump’s impulsive Iran War has been...

Is Trump’s Iran War Like a Katrina Moment? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-tr...

!!BEWARE !!

Just googled something and the top result was a link, which loaded immediately — in other words, what the site would do for its first ~25 years. The rest of the page was blank while it said "Thinking" and then a second later it gave me the AI summary and then the rest of the links.

Hey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.

Patel didn't sue The Atlantic because he thinks he can win but because baselessly suing a media outlet for libel is what Trump does.

Not a bad life

‘I Spray Myself With Magnesium and Read Under a Chicken Light.’ It has become socially acceptable to celebrate women for their extreme beauty routines and body modification. Is this a good thing?

"Is it all that liberatory to applaud one another for choosing to become more conventionally attractive? And why should so many perfectly healthy young women spend their youth tending to their imagined poor health, rather than reaping the benefits of health for fun?" www.thecut.com/article/extr...

*Patti

Olivia Rodrigo looks like Patty Harrison's little sister

FBI director Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic | CNN Business FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story that alleged Patel has “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.”

Kash Patel has followed through on his vow to sue The Atlantic over Sarah Fitzpatrick's investigative story, "The FBI Director Is MIA." The Atlantic says the suit is "meritless" >>>

If you want to write an op-ed (maybe, eventually, more than one op-ed) for The Canadian Jewish News @thecjn.bsky.social please send them my way! Here's how: thecjn.ca/submissions/

Hampshire College and the Death of a Boomer Utopia Gabrielle Moss writes that Hampshire College, which announced its closure this week, was one of the final bastions of boomer utopian thinking.

Gabrielle Moss writes that Hampshire College, which announced its closure this week, was one of the final bastions of boomer utopian thinking.

In *this* economy?!

Whenever there would be a Twitter prompt trend of changing a movie title I would always do it with "The Sorrow and the Pity" as a joke but then one was like "change one letter to make a movie a food" and I posted "The Sorrow and the Pita."

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

there's a reason erasers don't work on your heart YouTube video by cat

There's a reason erasers don't work on your heart. That's because who you are and who you're born to love isn't a mistake.

youtu.be/Uq2sYdN9zQ0?...

Yes?

Reupping for the morning crowd

god forbid a man develop a late-in-life hobby

"The Drama"...more like "The Crappa."

Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.

Good grief… This chronicle of madness feels like the kind of exposé you expect to read after order has been restored. But it’s still going on, and Republican senators are apparently fine with it. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Richards's two-syllable delivery of "late" is so good