Tom Breen

This leaves Auburn, UConn, and Temple as the only three teams in the country who have had 0 passes intercepted.

Exactly. CNG gets nothing extra from me until Halloween at the earliest

I’m very much a “no heat ‘til turkey meat” person myself

A person on the Connecticut subreddit asks if anyone is planning to turn on their heat tonight. Predictable responses follow

Laugh all you want, this plus the AI bubble is all that stands between us and another Great Depression

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

I’m in love with the idea that giving the Nobel Prize to a Hungarian is somehow because of woke

Booking a trip for the spring of 2026 feels like an especially risky gamble with the state of the world

It’s so exciting to hear them announce the Nobel Prize winner in literature and think “Hey, I know who that is!” It happens about once a decade

Trick or Treating in the Burbs by John Phillip Falter, 1958

Baseball Sickos cartoon

When the Yankees get eliminated

it's a warzone

The Blue Jays are America’s team

If Taylor Swift doesn’t keep releasing variants of her new record, the manufacturing sector will completely collapse

I spotted this in a local bookstore the other day. They’ve shelved it with perfect accuracy!

What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions? Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

among other things, a real bummer that podcasts have largely been homogenized into a worse version of daytime TV, just longform video featuring people who know nothing, talking about nothing, for way too long, but also they're ugly and the staging is boring

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

I don’t like going on the GenAlpha subreddit to be told “it doesn’t mean anything, that’s the meaning.” Have these tweens been reading Samuel Beckett or something

Learning stuff on my phone

My friends and I have a running joke that no one has ever read any of his books, they’re just placed in used bookstores as part of some kind of experiment

Excuse me, do you have any Dean Koontz?

Back in August I scheduled today as a day off to do some fun autumn things. “Gee,” I thought at the time. “I sure hope it isn’t too cold on October 6 to eat outdoors.”

Does It Matter What Your Therapist Thinks About Israel? The war has divided Jewish New Yorkers from each other — and from their analysts.

Brilliant and fascinating. nymag.com/intelligence...

I couldn’t agree more. Willington is my pizza place of choice 10 out 10 times

I think most people outside the state see it as a non sequitur; they really don’t associate CT with pizza

Also, I’ll be honest: this sudden Pizza Capital of the Galaxy thing comes across as a little desperate. Like we’re trying to convince ourselves more than anything. I do appreciate that the official map makes it clear that northwestern CT is a howling pizza desert devoid of quality pies

Can we find someone else to quote on this topic