Is your source on this reliable?

Exactly. Beef jerky is not the steak of the future; astronaut ice cream is not the ice cream of the future. It is the chalky, metamorphic food of the gods. Even Spicer can't be wrongheaded enough to fight against it.

Point of order! Dippin' Dots are not astronaut ice cream. Sean Spicer is a cretin and a vichy little wormchild, but we're no better than he is if we can't employ accurate taxonomy of alternate ice cream treats.

Oh, that's awesome! Also, @apples, your ebullience and erudition on these comments just never fails to delight me. Just wanted to say that.

It makes the Glow Cloud look like a pile a' puke.

Becky with the Good Hair, you have been accused of excessive basicness, sketch-exiting after the second mimosa, using the word 'ratchet' in 2016, and making us all feel bad about laughing at that Tri-Delt who choked on pancakes. You have been found guilty in the court and sentenced to death by device; may god have…

buddy

May Cohen's lugubrious specter haunt Williams until he's unable to sleep a goddamned wink for the remainder of his life.

As someone who believed as a child that if you swallowed a fingernail, it would carve up your intestines and lead to sepsis, I feel this.

…my Ahviahto?

And you can thank Ronald Reagan's ass for that!

Oh, Southern irony.

Yeah, absolutely—I'm an NPR, Economist, and Washington Post guy, but I certainly trust the WSJ as a source of news. I really think we need to reclaim the concept of "conservative" from American Republicans, because, man, they do not check the right boxes on that one.

That's really an astute point, and I appreciate you making me think about it. I don't think the WSJ is often American Conservative (in the sense of post-Reagan "American values" coupled with tendencies to praise deregulation, active military endeavors, and restrictions on trade outside of the borders of the US), but…

Ha, fair. Their editorial page skews seriously conservative, but the basic journalistic reporting is trustworthy. Due to Murdoch owning it, though, it reports in a manner that's responsible but prone to a small-c conservative mindset (that occasionally dips into party-c Conservative).

Centrist in coverage, conservative in governance and editorial style—basically, it's centrist in providing content, conservative in giving context. I mean, you'll be well-informed if you read it, but you'll have a slightly different take on the importance of the information given, given Murdoch's dictates. The…

Answer: their star fell rapidly, and I was able to pick up a copy of Places Like This for four bucks at a record store last month.

That almost sounds like a Mountain Goats quote itself.

"We are strong, we are faithful, we are guardians of a rare thing; we pay close, careful attention to the news the morning air brings. We show great loyalty to the hard times we've been through."

As ever, Bree Newsome shows us how it's done: