Day: March 17, 2025

How Difficult is it to Take Off Your Shoes? Briggs

How Difficult is it to Take Off Your Shoes?

Clare Briggs March 17, 2025

I get the feeling that he had a fight about this the day before.

Spaghetti on the Wall: Autopens and Out to Lunch Presidents Autopen

Spaghetti on the Wall: Autopens and Out to Lunch Presidents

Ben Sears March 17, 2025

Per the Constitution, a barking madman elected to the presidency is a barking mad president. That’s for...

Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25 8528229881_2aeda692b9_b_Anchorage

Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25

Jaybird March 17, 2025

On this day, American politician Grover Cleveland, who was the first U.S. president to serve two discontinuous...

Lies, Damn Lies, and Appetizers

Andrew Donaldson March 17, 2025

"Self, just order and appetizer as your meal. All you need. All you want." Did I listen...

Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Protest Expectations

Issac Faulk March 17, 2025

What is clear is none of the students actually thought they’d be in the world of counterterrorism...

David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Um, no. Literally none of what other people do is relevant to if a specific person committed a crime…
Dark Matter in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025This situation reminds me of the whole "U leaders don't deal with sex offenders" problem. The compli…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointOh I agree; I noted as such in my original comment. But I can't help but notice that all the stories…
Dark Matter in reply to Michael Cain on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Military spending is roughly half of that $1.6T discretionary spending I think Musk didn't review th…
Michael Cain in reply to Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Do those numbers put DOD and military spending done by other parts of the government in discretionar…
Michael Cain in reply to North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointTexas, and to a somewhat lesser extent Florida, build because they can sprawl. Where are the desirab…
Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”All federal discretionary spending combined is $1.6T. This includes what most of us view as primary…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointThat is a fair critique to a very broad blanket statement but Florida and Texas are, iirc, the large…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025If it were still scientifically accurate, then maybe it would be. Or maybe we've become more accepti…
Jaybird in reply to KenB on Saturday Morning Gaming: Hollow KnightI am *EXCEPTIONALLY* irritated. I watched a youtube that said "fight them like *THIS*" and I went an…