The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

Incredible piece. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

This is the cure for the male loneliness epidemic

so is anyone ever going to do anything about all the rich assholes in the epstein files or do we just have to wait until they're all dead for a round of "i knew all along"

this is entirely correct

Oh no did the driver drop their phone in the crash

Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

Women over age 13 hold no interest for our republican party

LOL Knicks

I'll never get tired of announcers rhapsodizing over Madison Square Garden, famously the only NBA arena where fans have ever enjoyed a playoff game

here's to many many more shit-eating days to come their way

"or, hear me out, we could bring sarcastic handkerchiefs and then 11 of us will join every Republican to confirm him" - Chuck Schumer

oh my god the "Ya-Hoo!" show is genius

right now "Colonel Homer". so many brilliant moments
* "cracks have developed in the Greco-Bolivian alliance"
* "ooh, an octopus"
* Lenny sings "There's a Kind of Hush" to his bowling ball
* "ah, Homer, you're just a big sack o'sugar"
* "as much as I hate that man right now you gotta love that suit"

had to buy a month of ESPN/Disney to watch the game on the plane yesterday and I'm going to spend so much of that month catching up on old Simpsons episodes that have fallen out of my mental rotation

when u pick the false holy grail

Airports are also the place where it becomes obvious that a huge percentage of us never have to share a space with strangers until the moment they get to the airport

Maybe I'm salty because yesterday I couldn't watch five straight minutes of in flight entertainment without them breaking in to scold someone who couldn't go ten minutes without standing up and rearranging their carryon

People who check bags would have gone to Boulder in The Stand and overhead people would have gone to Las Vegas

Good idea. I'm also going to add "hire more staff" every time

A big relief to be home after a week of unsettlingly pleasant warm European sunshine

Maybe the white house press corps can bring this up at the spring prom

Fake Massachusetts Towns april 19 2021 April 17 2022 4/17/23 4/14/24 4/21/25

Tomorrow is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which means it's a good time to roll out this all-timer from our archives.

I keep mixing up "palantir" and "platner" in posts I see and honestly they usually both work

My favorite part of car commercials is when they show someone driving a car really fast out in the wilderness and then it says on the screen that they don't want us to drive like that

Police shoot, kill man with knife in Lexington following medical call - The Boston Globe Police responded to a home on Mason Street after receiving a call from family members that a man had injured himself with a knife, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.

“Parents call 911 for help with mentally ill son, so cops come & kill him” is an EXTREMELY common story

But our elected officials & media live in daily terror of being branded anti-cop, so we’re not allowed to talk about it

This is to the 2020s as "slicked-back hair businessman and lady in aerobics tights holding a boombox and listening to Duran Duran" is to the 1980s

So...not Catholics then

Europe: public transportation, health care, parks everywhere, walkable neighborhoods free of chain stores, cozy neighborhood bars, sense that life is a thing that can be enjoyed

USA: free refills

In the US you can't even take off a day to care for an ill human lmao

The first reaction to seeing these instruments of cruelty is "oh no, how terrible" but then you picture (redacted) or (a different guy) in them and it's nice