Same for 8th grade birthday parties for boys: there was a foot difference between the tallest and shortest attendee.

THanks for that: I'll delete

Mawathon Man? Widdle Shop of Howwows?

(Trying to think of dentist-themed horror films, junior division)

Listen, it's better that the Tooth Fairy be a bit late than get impatient. Show up early? Could be unpleasant.

$1, unadjusted for inflation, and sometimes the Tooth Fairy would lose her way and not deliver for a day or two. Or four. At one point the youngest, veteran of dinnertime discussions about academic deadlines, asked whether the Tooth Fairy had applied for an extension.

Truly, a giant walks among us

JD Vance is 'splaining theology to the Pope??

Nice use of the apostrophe and snark? Fantastic.

tbf, this is just as insanely bad as the NYT search for the last 10 years or so. I mean, everyone just uses google to search for NYT article bc their own search engine will return "grandma got run over by a reindeer" from 1984 in response to a similar query.

I'm so sorry, and so much sympathy. Don't let the assholes grind you down: they resort to insults because they are incapable of analysis, logic, or the use of evidence.

Exactly right.

Popes were far more invested in politics historically, from Gregory VII asserting Church autonomy to Boniface VIII insisting on a role in French politics (oops) to Julius II going after the Borgias and leading armies in battle.

20th century popes are anodyne in comparison

But also "I'm a doctor"??

The Vatican space exploration program has never been stronger, though.

Yes but you have an Erdős number of 1! (Sort of)

Is that Epstein on the bed?

Also on sad baseball teams

The monetary easing under Francis was also an outrage. I mean, really.

Let me just add that Leo is also Weak on Tax Collection, Gerrymandering, Naval Maneouvers, Spaghetti Carbonara, and Scarf Manufacturing

still not supposed to clink or say cheers when drinking beer, for exactly that reason

“Fidesz lost power so democratic backsliding isn’t really that much of a thing” is the worst, most complacent take possible. The minimalist definition of democracy as a system in which parties lose elections is a great place to start, but that’s all it is.

Well, in the meantime he's found a side hustle as a right-wing Hungarian nativist and autocracy apologist, so that might be difficult

Or maybe he can work his magic closer to home first. I hear we have elections coming up, and there's definitely an elderly politician who could use his support

Yeah, I read maybe two more of his books, and they were just kind of ... curdled? Small and dour, nothing like UTTF

The Kremlin is beautiful this time of the year

100. That's such an amazing book, full stop, both hilarious and heartbreaking, and just exactly wtf happened to him afterwards? Who hurt him?

TF wrote the amazing, hilarious, and heartbreaking _Under The Frog_ and it's been downhill ever since. Oy.

Sweet lord, 138!

...and now it's up to 137!

It sure as hell would, since it's a unicameral system and the Hungarian president, despite recent efforts, only has a pocket veto. Parliament can just vote again and overrrule.

Reuters says Tisza has at least 135 seats: 133 is the constitutional supermajority!

Live by highly disproportional electoral systems (which Orbán made even more disproportional with the extra compensation votes awarded to winners), die by highly disproportional electoral systems.