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I hear that the best way to win a Nobel Peace Prize is by authorizing a bunch of extrajudicial killings.

To be fair, Lay’s garbage chips don’t have the flavor or texture of chips made from actual potatoes. They seem to be reconstituted from a paste that at one point contained potatoes.

Walter Reed doctors asked the president to come in so they and their colleagues could try to understand how he’s in such amazing shape.

The sad thing is that I can actually imagine KKKaroline Leavitt saying that to the press.

I think your intuition is probably right, but also Amazon happened. You can get a grinder delivered to your house in a day or two for like $10. Nobody who cares about fresh-ground coffee is going to hesitate to invest in a grinder when it costs less than a bag of beans.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Sinclair is still a fascist-loving company and will never make a dollar of ad revenue off of me ever again. Sucks for me when a football game I want to see is on ABC (my local affiliate is Sinclair-owned), but otherwise anything worth seeing on ABC is available on YouTube. I’ve never really watched Kimmel, but now I watch and like his monologues on YouTube every day.

That poor innocent car.

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I’m sure the Trump administration is trying to figure out a role they can hire him for. “Hey, we hired another literal nazi” would be a great distraction from the Epstein business.

Brain drain. It’s already started. Academics, scientists, and researchers are moving to Canada or Europe to do their work. As shit gets worse, the upper and middle classes will start to do the same. The underprivileged and undereducated will fight for the scraps of what’s left.

TNR isn’t what I’d call the mainstream media. They’re pretty upfront about their ideological positions, unlike the New York Times or Washington Post or Reuters, which twist themselves into knots trying to be “neutral.”