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Well, I’m certainly not going to let on that that’s what I’d like to do.

I strongly suspect that the answer is “never”. I can’t think of a judge whose reaction to receiving such a letter would be anything other than sharing it with the parties, and I can’t imagine EPS counsel sending a judge such a letter (mind you, what they did in this case *was* pretty boneheaded).

Here's how Canadians are talking, FYI.

I feel like nobody makes this big a deal about second place if first place isn’t just completely untouchable.

I don’t know basketball at all, but am I right that the big takeaway from the discourse about Bam passing Kobe for second on that single-game points list is just how good Wilt Chamberlain was?

So…what’s a “race […] land”, exactly?

It’s important to try new things, to deepen our understanding of the vastness of our ineptitude.

we trained an AI model to understand lindsey grahams whole deal and it killed itself

While it always seems smart, sometimes nominating the least likeable person you can find doesn’t pay off—call it the Poilievre Rule.

Look, a big part of effective adversarial cross-examination is not letting its subject anticipate the next question, but occasionally you can also score big with the world’s most obvious followup.

Also, because I was unfamiliar with this fellow and I was about to post something of his from Twitter, I took the precaution of googling “is james surowiecki a nazi” before doing so—this is how it’s done, Graham Platner.

(There is, for the record, zero indication that James Surowiecki is a Nazi.)

This had somehow not occurred to me, but is definitely what happened.

Successful people say to hire people smarter than you. Perhaps nobody in history should have had an easier time following that advice than Donald Trump, and yet, looking at his cabinet, I think he may have fallen short.

"None of that disruptive tanker traffic--just smooth ocean as far as the eye can see."

"He just conceded the election without even trying to incite a mob to violence...total weakling."

Pierre Poilievre is rivalled only by Stockwell Day for the title of my least favourite Canadian major party leader of my lifetime, but that Republicans think that his way of losing is too polite is frankly a point in his favour.

“Americans are going to need to make some sacrifices, in the interests of hold on I’m just stepping on to an elevator.”

Italy may have beat us in Baseball but we’re going to beat them in something they invented: being fascist.

This whole thread is so true. I’ve often wondered why it is so, and my best guess is that they have adopted, as an inflexible first principle, that the President of the United States is by definition a serious, substantial person, and they’re not going to be dissuaded by mere overwhelming evidence.

Well, yeah—that’s why Trump’s so convinced that Carney would win the gubernatorial election.

It would certainly be among the more benign ways that Trump’s continued descent into madness could be trackable.

Actually, I’m saying it because I checked Twitter after seeing your own comment questioning its veracity, and couldn’t find it. I’d have replied to your comment saying so, but I couldn’t find it, either, so I expect the original post was deleted (for good reason).

Accurate, but still kind of fun that Johnson’s talking about passing legislation that Trump would refuse to sign.

Fortunately, he’s a ridiculous man who just says things because he thinks they sound good. But still, “U.S. President threatens to nuke Iran” is…not great.

So if we were to believe Trump, he’s basically threatening to nuke Iran, right? “At a level never before seen” (assuming it means “at a higher level than previously seen” and not “at a specific level not previously seen, though higher levels have been’) must mean “beyond Hiroshima”?

I get dunking on this (on Jay’s post, I mean), but it would have saved me a lot of time on various Douglas Coupland novels.

Johnson's logic seems pretty clear here. He and his political supporters want to implement a variant of fundamentalist Christian law on the US, so it seems natural to them that any other religious group would look to do the same.

It is the fear-laden mirror externalization of their own agenda.

Frankly kind of a mediocre joke in a mediocre episode, but outstanding applicability to current events.