Robert Rice

"Last year saw a doubling of Americans who were hospitalized or killed by contaminated food outbreaks ... Despite that, the new funding bill blocks federal rules designed to trace sources of outbreaks, and to prevent contamination of produce."

Frontrunner for the 2025-26 Sami Salo Award.

Habs CHL update: it was a busy 48 hours for Blainville-Boisbriand's Arseni Radkov, he played Thursday and Friday night as B-B defeated Rouyn-Noranda 6-1 and Val-d'Or 5-2 while he made 35 saves on 38 shots in 2 games. He has a 3.00 GAA and a .900 save % while starting 72% of his team's games.

NCAA overall stats column (relating to MTL)

Michael Hage: 19P, tied for 3rd overall in scoring.

Alexis Cournoyer: .958 Save %, 1st in the rookie and general goaltending categories. (Still only at 4GP though)

Quentin Miller: .941 Save %, 2nd among rookie goalies, 7th in the general category(9GP)

Logan Sawyer had 1G in a 4-2 win over Merrimack. Sawyer has remarkable improvement this year with 5G, 5A in 10GP so far, he had 18P in 38GP last season.

Luke Mittelstadt had 1A for Minnesota in a 6-3 loss to LIU.

Habs NCAA stats from yesterday: 2A for Michael Hage last night in a 7-1 win for Michigan over Penn State.

Quentin Miller continues to impress, he made 29 saves for Denver in a 2-1 OT over Colorado. Teammate Sam Harris had 1A.

Alexis Cournoyer had 27 saves for Cornell in a 4-1 win over Brown.

The speed with which sports betting is ruining sports is alarming.

AI companies like "our product will convince you to kill yourself, then monetize your spouse's grief with microtransactions while it also sexts with both them and your child. We lose billions of dollars a month btw"

And almost half the US stock market is now inextricably tied up in them.

My man looks like Temu Mel Gibson.

Like they microwaved a Stretch Armstrong doll.

Like Peter Parker was bit by a radioactive hobo.

Like a 7/11 hot dog got its wish to become a real boy.

Like a Pixar film about a catcher's mitt.

Like Hoggle from Labyrinth had a court date.

Alberta premier says loss of measles elimination status concerning, urges vigilance
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Because they wanted a slush fund to go to donors and supporters?

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

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Sign him just so he can get somehow have a 3P game against Toronto sometime this season.

We can't have nice things, 30th anniversary edition (if you use the Roy trade as a bookmark for that)

Nice to see Jared Davidson getting the much-deserved call up by the Habs.

He has 9 goals & 2 assists for 11 points in 13 games this season for Laval.

I had tried to get tickets for the Boston game, but it fell apart due to scalpers making any decent ticket about 50% over face value, or more.

I can't get too mad since I'm 3-1 during this rebuild, but it stings as it is incredibly unlikely I see a game until next season.

When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it.

Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.

And Mayor Horwath is in charge of the organization that designed it and has the power to redesign it.

Stop telling us to be more careful and start fixing our dangerous-by-design built environment!

This exasperated me: “This tragedy is a devastating reminder of how fragile life is and how important it is that we all look out for one another on our roads,” the mayor said.

Dammit, NO! Mohawk and Upper Wentworth is one of the most dangerous intersections in the city. It was DESIGNED that way 1/2

Thanks for the shoutout on the podcast @maybeitsian.bsky.social and @theactivestick.bsky.social, but believe me I could have dealt with the score but potentially watching Newhook's season end was what truly ruined it for me.

Nothing sums up the game like that bloody goal.

If you're wondering, this hurts even more to watch in person.

Still can't believe the zebras gave the Stars a PP when they had a 3-0 lead. You can't even imagine that occurring for the Habs unless the other side got hit for delay of game.

Nod to the gentlemen on the upper deck of the Bell Centre for having an Emile Bouchard Hockey Fights Cancer jersey.

This book brings that up. Along with plenty of other horrifying stuff.

Currently halfway into Neurotribes by Steve Silverman. History of autism from discovery, how it was originally studied/treated and going forward from there. One of those "engaging, but enraging" books on how the autistic community has functioned and how it has been continuously failed.

That's a solid one. One of the most harrowing intros I've ever read in a novel.

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

Heading to Bell Centre tonight with the family, we are currently riding a 6-game winning streak on our attendance. Bringing this jersey out for the evening.