It’s interesting that on both this list and the previous one on stand-up specials they’ve left off Cosby and Louis CK. I’m not at all suggesting those guys need their reputations rehabilitated, or even, really, that they need to be on these lists. But if they’re going to include the racist and homophobic stuff of the…

To Sam:

I hadn’t heard about this, and when I got to the part early on about it being a “linguistic analysis of literature”, I thought oh, there have been linguists analyzing literature that way for decades. There was a guy at Mizzou years ago, for example, named Gilbert Youmans who was counting the number of *unique* words…

This guy’s stated thought process is so bizarre to me that I actually find it kind of endearing (although I suppose it’s possible that he’s only saying it to give himself cover). Like, he wanted to write a memoir, so of course the first step is to compile a database of 25,000 books to count all the words and analyze…

Do you like my painting? I used 9.7 oz of oil paint, which is how much Van Gogh used on average in all of his paintings! It’s also on a 30 by 21 inch canvas, which is one of the most famous canvas sizes!

Weird to see my local voting place on here. But the author is correct, conservatives are spinning this anyway they can to convince people to vote yes. Some of my neighbors had “vote yes” signs in their yard and didn’t even fully understand the issue, they thought it was directly tied to abortion (which it is not). In…

Shout out to Regine Johnson mentioned in the article. Stark is our home county and we never, ever have lines to vote here like we see in other areas of Ohio/US.

It’s correct that others have noted that the Stimson honeymoon angle is not supported by the historical record, but Stimson DID visit Kyoto on several occasions in the 1920s, and I think the scene at its heart, if not factually correct, captures a more important truth about the decision of which city to bomb. Kyoto…

1. Delta Airlines

Just imagine how lame David Letterman’s “Top 10" lists would be if he started the list with #1...
Or the Miss America pageant announcing the winner first when there are still 3 contestants on stage...

I’ve commented this before on other slideshows, but just posting the results with no commentary is comically lazy. At least if there were some input from the author on the rankings, this wouldn’t feel like such a mandated piece from on high.

I’ve never really liked any of the big corporate airlines, I prefer to fly with my local mom and pop planes.

#releasethefartoperacut

RIP

“Fight the real enemy.”

Obviously not sure yet if it applies to this story, but still: If you have thoughts of suicide or self-harm, don’t act on them. No matter what country you’re in, there is free help available and things will get better. I’ve been close one or two times myself and am glad I didn’t do it.

This “the vaccine was a rush job” shit is so tired. The vaccine is almost 20 years old. It was originally developed back in 2007 for SARS, which came out of China in 2002 (called SARS-CoV-1, if that sounds familiar, COVID is SARS-CoV-2). Since contagious people were symptomatic, it was easier to quarantine people at…

Cube got rich. Really really rich. And like a lot of really really rich people, he’s bored (and wants those sweet sweet tax breaks!). Vaccine denialism is first and foremost about entertainment - it’s conspiracy porn.