More generally: Trump’s economic policy makes more sense once you recognize it’s just an elaborate bribe-solicitation mechanism.

I've been thinking about the backlash Marie Kondo got and I think part of it was not just that she was saying "buy less shit" she was explicitly say "only buy what actually makes you happy" and in a nation of conspicuous consumption it pissed people off.

lmao Americans are unemployable because we need health insurance. reality is unreal.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

180? ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY PEOPLE JUST MURDERED BY THE US GOVERNMENT AND THERE HASN'T BEEN FUCKALL REPORTING FOR MONTHS!

Earthset is pretty damned cool.

related to tim curry’s birthday, but i happened to be thinking about this meme heavily the past couple days already

Very 2015 vibes on the North Side of Chicago in the last week.

And this isn't even counting the commander of stupid.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

The chapters of LOTR after Mordor falls may be some of the best fictional work I've ever read.

Tolkien's slow, and yet sudden, unraveling of the Fellowship is a beautiful tribute to the impermanent nature of humanity.

I appreciate it at 43 in a way I don't think I would if I'd read it at 20.

I have been so mad at this team until about a week ago that I was ready to quit most sports.

Cubs?

Yas!

I knew you would know. Dang.

No, this was just a block or two south of Spring. It was a sit down type restaurant. Its probably been closed 10 years or more at this point, but who really can tell.

Somebody help me out. What was the name of the restaurant in New Albany down by Vincennes? The railroad tracks ran right along the back of the building. I can't think of it to save my life.

Birthright, buddy.

USL GIANT LOUCITY FOILS AUSTIN FC'S U.S. OPEN CUP-SET BID!

#LOUvATX

Y’all are wild

His Crisis of Confidence speech may be the very last time that a president spoke plainly and honestly to the American people.

From Pinkie Masters a clipping of a newspaper article entitled bar hopping with Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter was our best president. Rich people just got mad at him and decided to destroy the planet

I fucking hate it here.

Saying the Pope is weak on crime is like saying "the pope is weak on crime" (there are no good analogies for how fucking stupid that is; it's a category that contains exactly one example)

It is legit funny but it doesn’t change the fact that if your mayor went on FB tonight, said that the Pope sucked, and then posted an AI painting of themselves as Jesus Christ performing miracles, they would be removed from office in less than 48 hours.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

It’s so cool that the pope can’t stop tweeting about how much God hates the American government

Moon occluding Earth as Artemis II moves around the far side.

Watching Artemis II this past week, I constantly had this feeling where I was nearly in tears, but at the same time I wanted to shout in excitement. It was the strangest thing; something I haven’t felt in so long. I think … I think it was wonder.

If I never have to read some person saying "what happened to innocent until proven guilty" about why some guy should still be elected to one of the most powerful positions in the country despite numerous sexual assault allegations it will be too soon

I felt this in my soul.