Wait, it's been since last fall and you still haven't hooked the kid up with some camburt already? Monster.

Actually, he probably didn’t even do that; looks like it was mostly clever propaganda plus taking credit for earlier construction spending:  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/loco-motive/

Shoulda linked it before. I hope you enjoy it.

Ever heard the cover by Frente?  It’s heartbreakingly good.

Thanks for your kind words. Truth is I fucking love my job. Just started my 29th year, and there’s always something new.

I’m a high school English teacher and pretty much the same way. Even when it comes to irony. I think there was an Oatmeal comic a while ago that told me to chill out on misidentifications of irony, but I’m holding the line on this one: a mere coincidence is not irony.

Hashtag down with prescriptivism lawl! You go, human!

You know us well.

Except that it’s the richest capitalist nation that has the greatest incarceration rate...

Can someone explain this to me? I’m a Canadian, and don’t understand so much about this system. Here in Toronto, most kids just go to their neighbourhood schools. We have very few magnet schools — some IB programs, some special needs programs, a few specialist programs — but most kids know which school they’re going…

I’m curious as to what age people think this might be best for. I read what you said about personality, and I get it, but I’m trying to figure if it would be right for my almost-eleven-year-old. He likes his Switch, though he likes his PS4 better, especially because of the social thing. We keep him to mostly E games —…

Right on. Good on you for pointing it out. Shame on those who still can’t see it.

Congratulations.

“It’s changed.”

This is one hundred percent brilliant, and you are handsome and cute.

But he didn’t say “hot little.” He said “little hot.” He’s an asshole objectifier who can’t even get the order of adjectives in English correct.

Irrestandard.

I didn’t mean to offend. I think that the kind of discomfort I’m talking about here may be on the same continuum as racism, but I honestly didn’t mean that as my take-away point.

I was so excited when I saw that episode for the first time.

Don’t be shy! There’s this weird thing that happens in Toronto — people think Torontonians are cold, but I don’t think that’s true. We are a little reserved compared to, say, East-Coasters or Mid-Westerners, but all it takes to crack that thin layer of ice is a friendly question. I think it comes from the extreme…