Stephen Pell

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

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There’s room for curling here. Or maybe I just like really obscure sports.

Start small with 8-10 teams that all play each other throughout the season. All the games happen simultaneously and in the same arena (like we’re seeing now). Present all the matches in a “Red Zone” format. 1.5 - 2 hours with pre and postgame interviews and analysis.

It feels like there a place for a weekly curling program on American TV. Saturday afternoons from after football ends and until baseball begins.

I want a Red Zone, but for Olympic Curling. There’s exciting stuff happening on those other sheets — I want to see what they’re cheering about!

Getting a little bit of a “Tim Robinson floundering-and-stammering” vibe from this.

“Y’all ever notice how white churches and black churches are different? What’s up with that?”

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance

Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

“No, no, I’m not worried. These are beautiful, clean cigarettes. The Democrats don’t like it when I say that, but it’s actually— it’s really very beautiful. Clean cigarettes. Wow.”

When you’re the Attorney General for Omelas

He’s slurring pretty bad now too

The congresswoman was not out of line here. These questions should be asked of these people often.

Overall, I think their approach to evaluating art was lacking.

Did they talk about the music? No. They simply bisected the lyrical content into 2 categories: “pro-social” and “objectionable” —giving some examples — then wrapped up with a conclusion in the album as a whole, giving a yay or nay to wary Christian parents.

When I was a kid, we had a subscription to “Plugged In” Magazine, which was Focus on the Family’s monthly cultural review of the secular world. Centered in its coverage were the album reviews.

I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

My bedtime reminder just went off on my phone when they hit that pick 6. Yeah, night night

the bushes were people 😂

The Kicker is gonna be the Super Bowl MVP

lol, he hates the new kickoff rule so much though

“Computer, please tell me who has good leadership skills.”

Really jarring for those of us with a Bon Jovi aversion who thought this would be a safe space

Fun fact: RFK jr. loves yogurt so much that he keeps a full serving stored in his esophagus for emergencies.

“Yeah, she pegged me until I went unconscious.”

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Democrats want ICE ABOLISHED. There’s no “commonsense” that would fix what’s wrong with that organization.

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