There are two expressions in the Dutch language that seem to fit exceptionally well:

World War Two still casts a long shadow,” Kraaijvanger told Wired.

Pause, take a breath, and have some patience next time you start the odyssey home from Target.

Thought for sure the “truck” story was going to be about how they throw massive amounts of slushy snow on your windshield when they pass, leaving you completely blinded to everything for about 2 seconds, until the wipers clear it (if they can).   At ~60mph (which is admittedly probably too fast), 2 seconds is an…

Fuck tRump and his idiot deplorables.  He’s a fucking treasonous POS.

I got $100 bucks that Cruz could not succinctly define what “neo-marxist class warfare propaganda” even means.

If Ted Cruz doesn’t like it when Americans do science, he can flee to Cancun again.

I just wish Hunter S. Thompson could organize his eventual state funeral.

I notice there have been a lot more school shootings in the Gulf since the name change.

It’s so precious when Republicans combine a lot of big scary words that don’t fit together in any coherent way to scare their rubes who have no idea what any of the words mean. The United States of America is finished.

Yeah, but it’s not that Bragg. It totally isn’t that Bragg!

I just love the word salad approach, where they throw as many boogeyman words together. Now, “DEI” and “woke” aren’t strong enough apart, so he must combine them for EXTRA STRENGTHZ effect. Soon it will morph to “DEI Soros woke Nazi communist abortionist gay agenda slut porn” and this cannot be topped, so they will…

If the Zodiac Killer and Owner of The World’s Most Punchable Face wants to strip the US of its world-leading researchers and scientists, so be it. We’ve got lots of research universities in Canada (McGill, McMaster, UBC, UofC, UVIC among others) that would be happy to work with them to build out cutting-edge research…

They are capitalist, which adheres to no policy.

So if self-driving cars are woke, isn’t that going to be a problem for President Musk’s current (and fleeting, and drug-addled) focus on robotaxis? I kind of don’t know who to root for in a Cruz v. Musk fight. Team Asteroid?

You know how society advances? By learning more and becoming more knowledgeable as a group. The problem the far-right have with that is that the better educated the masses are, the less malleable they become.

they are whatever moneyed interest wants them to be. cowards. 

Mare Incognitum, or here there be idiots to the north

Funny how people used to think Silicon Valley and Big Tech were liberal.