Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:
My mother's name is Marge and every year I post this. Beware!!!
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Before Trump won in 2016, when I thought he’d lose, I told my buddy “if you and nine friends are choosing dinner and six choose pizza and the other four choose ‘kill and eat the other six,’ even though pizza won, you’ve still got a problem.” Then pizza didn’t win.
Who in their right mind would want to come here now?
It turns out this (bad) decision pre-dates Trump and was made in 2024. Sorry for sharing without fact-checking.
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Pete’s knackered after an epic battle with his ferret.
Who's afraid of the big bad CSIS scrutiny? Just Poilievre!
The petition asking for all 🍁federal party leaders to obtain top security clearance needs a fresh boost to reach and exceed 40K signatures.
Leaders with nothing to hide, hide nothing.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill."
What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.
It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
The most honest summation of the entire right-wing agenda:
Lawyer: "What books would you have read that would have informed your opinion on what grants to cancel based on DEI or not."
DOGE-ling: "There were no books."
I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic
Ruin a book or band name with one letter:
Ann of Green Gables
My plan for tonight's Canada-USA WBC game is to gloat like hell if Canada wins and not acknowledge this is a real tournament if they lose.
Welcome to Sucker Punch Spring
Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
1. Donald Trump starts a war with Iran, deeply unpopular with the American people, that causes oil prices to spike.
2. Trump allows Russia to sell its oil at those inflated prices, giving Russia far more money for its war with Ukraine.
3. Trump is Russia First.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
Hey does anyone remember how we had like a decade of near zero interest rates? Thank god the USA spent that time investing in infrastructure! What a calamity if we had just squandered the last best chance of our lives
The guy who bankrupted casinos has caused the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
The team that accidentally invited a reporter to a top secret military discussion was taken by surprise when the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz.
I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
No muss, no fuss: both my daughters received HPV and meningitis vaccinations at school in grade 7 from Ottawa Public Health.
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
*paying $5 a gallon for gas*
I'm making money!
We're boarding. There's a little kid yelling "I'm on a plane" over and over with delight.
I miss that feeling.
