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YouTube video by Olympics Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

My great grandpa was a Gustie!

MN! (I have a Knight, not an Ole, but love both schools and the town.)

Seen in Northfield.

FWIW all the 50somethings at this Super Bowl party, none of whom could pick Bad Bunny out of a lineup, all thought that was a great, entertaining show.

I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this. So, fuck you, man.

YouTube video by artfilm33 Midnight at the Oasis - Waiting for Guffman HD

😭

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If these dudes approached my kid like that, my anger would be enough to power four dozen medium-sized cities for 250 years.

If I walk up to you with hammer and say “I could break your knees if you don’t give me $20 but I won’t,” would you feel relieved that I’d ruled out breaking your knees?

I'm so proud of Chicagoans and Minnesotans standing up for their neighbors and their communities.

Always down, never out.

Biological female gives biological male her trophy and assures him that he is a winner.

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

The Somali community, which at least at one point was the excuse for this crackdown, are there because decades ago because Lutheran Social Services and other Minnesota charities invited them, welcomed them, supported them, making MN their refuge as it had been for their own ancestors.

And then you were stuck with a copy of the Joshua Kadison CD but the used record store wouldn't buy it, so instead it just lived in your binder of discs forever, inviting judgement from anyone who came over and fllipped through it.

(Now I'm sitting here choosing which ones I'm going to order.)

Red meat? In this economy?

Target sells Cascade powder (at least in New Jersey).

Wow. Not today, REM.

Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

A ducking annoyance

Boxing Day's been good to me, Howard

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

"What did your family do over the Thanksgiving break?"
"Not much. Ate some good food.. Decorated for Christmas. Watched a 4+ hour documentary about interactive theme park robots."

I'm excited for you to get to the part where he talks about when he played a show at a restaurant in NJ

The funny thing about this is the main reason the Boy Scouts opened up to girls in the first place wasn't because they were caving to pressure from the left. It's because they were having major recruitment issues. There weren't enough interested boys alone for them to stay afloat as an organization.

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.