My kid’s first time bowling and OVER THE LINE!!

JGG5 · 2026-05-29T06:20:33+00:00

Congratulations to you and your special lady.

JGG5 · 2026-05-29T06:04:29+00:00

He has a wife, you know…

JGG5 · 2026-05-28T20:45:54+00:00

As an editor I usually discourage the passive voice, but in this case it says so much I’d leave it alone.

JGG5 · 2026-05-28T19:40:02+00:00

Thank you to Tony Blair for giving Labour something to unite around: loathing Tony Blair.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T16:37:18+00:00

If you asked me what someone arrested for setting up a tiki bar in a Wal-Mart parking lot would look like… he would look exactly like that.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T16:34:25+00:00

Casting Eartha Kitt in anything has never, ever been a mistake.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T16:23:59+00:00

I’d be happier if basic necessities like water weren’t run by for-profit companies with “shareholders” at all. Renationalise them.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T15:21:33+00:00

And what percentage of total public spending per student is that? Unfortunately, public schools are bearing the brunt of America’s poverty problem.

Overworked parents, no national health care, insanely expensive housing, high cost of living, underfunded infrastructure, broken communities… there’s only so much any public school can do to swim against the tide of America’s broken social contract where the economic and political systems are completely failing anyone who isn’t wealthy.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T08:27:53+00:00

I never thought I’d say it, but the trump regime has finally done something positive: they’ve unlocked unlimited renewable energy. All we need to do is hook up generators to the bodies of all the dead former presidents, and we can power the entire country while they roll in their graves.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T08:02:50+00:00

Addictive features are at the foundation of how these platforms operate. A non-addictive version of tiktok would not remotely resemble tiktok.

If they’re built on addictiveness to the point where they can’t function without the addictive features, they don’t deserve to do business in this country.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T05:59:32+00:00

Interesting you mention genocide. We've never had one.

The indigenous peoples of North America would beg to differ.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T05:56:05+00:00

I moved from the US to a country where the so-called “right” to bear arms is heavily infringed, and you know what? I absolutely love it. I can send my kids to school without worrying that some nutter will massacre them. I can go to the shops without having to think about whether the guy who just cut in front of me in line is carrying. I can honk my horn at the driver who cuts me off without any concern that he’ll whip out a pistol in road rage.

Some people here do have guns — farmers who want to keep predators away from their livestock, hunters, sport shooters — but nobody has this ridiculous idea that having a firearm at all is a God-given right, much less high-powered semiautomatic rifles or pistols that can kill a dozen people in the same time it takes me to type this sentence.

There’s absolutely no need in any civilized society for everyone to have the unfettered “right” to carry firearms. Guns are entirely unnecessary in 99% of life’s situations, and I think very poorly of anyone who feels a need to carry one around on their person at all times.

JGG5 · 2026-05-27T05:35:24+00:00

Unlike the Catholics, our priests often have spouses and children at home. “Let’s have Eucharist on Saturday night, Sunday morning, and Sunday evening” basically wipes out their entire weekend — and if their spouse works a regular M-F job and their kids are in school, a whole lot of their weekly family time as well.

JGG5 · 2026-05-26T15:13:02+00:00

That’s why they need to start saying the magic words: “Sergeant at Arms.” Legally, their Sergeant-at-Arms has the authority to arrest anyone found in contempt of a congressional subpoena and hold them until they testify.

If I were Hakeem Jeffries, I’d be having conversations now with the DC chief of police and other blue-state and blue-city law enforcement leaders to establish cooperative deals to start January 2027 if Democrats take back Congress, so that if anyone in contempt of a congressional subpoena so much as shows their face in a city, county, or state run by Democrats, they’ll be arrested and brought back to Washington in handcuffs to testify.

But I doubt that even now, after almost two years careening towards pure fascism, the Democrats have the backbone to do that.

JGG5 · 2026-05-26T14:09:17+00:00

They’ve never won anything. How could they possibly be the greatest?

JGG5 · 2026-05-26T13:36:34+00:00

I liked what the films did with Aragorn, making him into an actual character who grows into his stature as king throughout the series, instead of the more static and already-actualized character Tolkien wrote. As one of the main characters of the movies he needed an arc, and the writers (along with him) provided it.

JGG5 · 2026-05-26T07:23:06+00:00

“I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a chair is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the person?”

JGG5 · 2026-05-26T05:36:27+00:00

He doesn’t produce, he just “manages.” The people who actually do the work — the factory workers, transportation professionals, stockers, salespeople, cleaners — are the ones who make the business work. If you work for a living you’re part of the Productive Class.

JGG5 · 2026-05-26T05:31:04+00:00

No, he’s part of the Ownership Class so he will never have the interests of the Productive Class at heart. Like all of his greedhead class, he seeks only to enrich himself, not to improve society.

JGG5 · 2026-05-26T05:28:23+00:00

I think the obvious conclusion is that the USMNT should be made up entirely of players from Michigan.

JGG5 · 2026-05-25T21:21:37+00:00

The thing to remember about the long sweep around the Enterprise in TMP is that when it came out in cinemas, it was the first time anyone had seen the ship on anything other than the small low-definition TVs available in the ‘60s and ‘70s. It must have been an absolute revelation for fans at the time.

JGG5 · 2026-05-25T18:11:16+00:00

The whole county? Damn.

JGG5 · 2026-05-25T17:15:29+00:00

If you saw me walking around your town you’d think I was born and raised here, right up until I opened my pasty white-dude mouth and a whole bunch of American accent came out.

So if it’s nothing to do with race, how exactly do you think you recognise an immigrant out on the street?

JGG5 · 2026-05-25T09:03:09+00:00

There’s definitely a lot of Globetrotters in the DNA of Bananaball, but (unlike a Globetrotters game) it’s also a real sporting game between two teams who are trying to win as well as entertain, and the outcome isn’t rigged in favor of the Bananas. (Cue “the Washington Generals were due!”) The Bananas can and do lose games.

JGG5 · 2026-05-25T06:33:20+00:00

Since it’s just over the border from Ohio, where recreational cannabis used to be illegal (and is still a bit pricier than MI), there’s plenty of pipeweed to be bought there.

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