David Kissling

On September 7, 2008, 54,000+ fans packed into Dodger Stadium to witness an epic duel between Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux but both pitchers were scratched before the game. Their replacements were Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw!

And they face off again tonight!

yeah I was in Phoenix the weekend after the election and those signs were everywhere

Bro put the US zoning system under control of the Squamish Nation

NHL season can't come fast enough

Endless posts spilled about policy and it turns out all elections are decided on vibes

my “i am not involved in a conspiracy to cover up sexual abuse” banner hanging from the vice-president’s residence has a lot of people asking what the fuck is wrong with me

America is having a housing crisis because it chooses to have a housing crisis. Americans are being displaced because we want them to be displaced. Our cities are world capitals of homelessness because we invest resources in making them so.

Those mining communities had good working class values and a sense of family values. The men did real men's heavy work going down the pit. There were also some very close-knit communities which were able to deal with the few troublesome kids. If they had any problems they would take the kid round the back and give them a good clip round the ear and that would be the end of that. Many of these communities were completely devastated, with people out of work turning to drugs and no real man's work because all the jobs had gone. There is no doubt that this led to a breakdown in these communities with families breaking up and youths going out of control. The scale of the closures went too far. The damage done to those communities was enormous as a result of the strike.[104]

Basically the best synthesis of Economics as Gender comes from the UK, where Thatcher cabinet member Norman Tebbit said he regretted crushing the miners’ strike because they did men’s work and beat their kids.

College towns are stuck in between the almost universal American belief that neighborhoods are sacred where homeowners are purchasing vibes not property, and the belief that college students are the one class of people who deserve as much high density housing as they need

mRNA vaccines are so close to magic as to be basically indistinguishable, and the administration is stopping them because they worship death.

Without exaggeration this kind of completely deranged fake nostalgia is destroying our society

This is the logic of the 19% saying Tony Soprano would vote for Harris

Traditional group schooling is good. You need to learn how to exist with other people. Your oh-so-special child is not that special.

Or we need to ask the question why the Reds aren't able to do what the Padres do and attempt to compete while being in a smaller market?

One reason Canadian transit systems perform better than ours is they use this neat trick where they actually allow people to live near them

Niemöller’s legacy is naturally the poem, but his enduring intellectual presence can be found lurking in the sentence, “Their hostility toward the Church made me pin my hopes on Hitler for a while.”

yeah this has been my assumption, especially as the Senate doesn't vote on actual legislation anymore

I'm pretty sure I've heard Lindsey Graham say this before

Enormous lightning bolt from Texas to Missouri sets new world record A bolt of lightning that shot from East Texas to Kansas City, Mo. is the longest flash on record.

A massive bolt of lightning that flashed across the sky from Texas to Missouri has captured a new world record.

well, it’s a good thing we have nothing to learn from a nation suffering a complete collapse in international standing due to the government devolving into a personalist regime whose one purpose is to keep its leader out of jail

We're getting levels of slop not believed to be possible

Something Awful, 4chan, and GameFAQs are to 2015-2025’s internet what the Mexican-American War was to the American Civil War and the Spanish Civil War was to World War II.

trump take data

"New York, a dramatically safe big city, is still attached to the rest of the United States" seems to be the real story here.

It's really funny learning Trump has had exactly one friend in his whole life. And even funnier to learn who it was.

corollary that this strategy works especially well when the Knicks are good

density is just the secret sauce for everything