Per Ben Schwartz: coca-Cola was behind 9/11.

Suddenly I feel both moody and blue.

But they’ll become cooler when, say, Tucker Carlson gives them up.

Like ten minutes ago? I was such a different person then.

Just as Neil Degrasse Tyson is one of the few men who can really carry off a mustache, Bill Nye is one of the few who makes a bow tie look good as day wear.

I agree, they are kind of silly. But then, the Supreme Court is located in Ottawa. It’s changed some in recent years, but for the longest time, it was known as a stolid, dull, kinda grey town — Tedium-on-the-Rideau, some called it. So it needed some literal colo(u)r, here and there.

Well, personally I’m not laughing at you about Trump — only just at the Republicans, and at Trump supporters. But most Canadians, like most Americans, know perfectly well that’s a minority of the country, and he won’t be elected.

Yer welcome. For a younger country than USia, Canadia is more traditional and conservative in a few ways. An example: electoral districts are called “ridings”, as they are in the UK. It’s a very old word, as in Old English old. A thousand years, maybe.

Because this guy did a fucked-up thing? Or because an old law was badly drafted, or never updated?

The colours aren’t from the flag. The current flag dates only to 1965. The red and white robes (ceremonial only; rarely worn) are from the British tradition, going back a few hundred years likely.

It’s only the ceremonial uniform. They might wear those robes once or twice a year. Otherwise it’s regular black robes. Same with the RCMP and their red coats. They rarely wear them; just regular police uniforms most of the time.

Juvenile humour knows no borders.

(Of course, that should of was “*pretence* of consolidation...”)

Kill Mr. Harper? Nah. He never succeeded, after all, in remaking the country root and branch. That’s hard to do when (a) not even your friends like you, so that you can’t bring anyone along with you, only attempt to bully and cow and drive them before you, and (b) you practically break your neck to downplay or…

Yes, Mr. Harper* — PM as was, then ordinary MP who said not a word in public until his party’s policy conventio blast weekend; soon, as I predicted last October, to leave Parliament altogether, to “return” to the private sector.

Non-government scientist here; though I’m in the private sector, I share your pain.

Kodos, Cthulhu... one of them brothers.

Ah, but waittaminute, here... Despite the Eddie Munster thing, Paul Ryan looks much more human than Trump. And — though I never thought I’d say this — he presents a fairly plausible version of human rationality (at least under certain lighting, assuming you cover one ear, and close one eye, and squint with the other).

I think so — it’s the tribute horribleness pays to non-horribleness.

And besides: