That’s what inspired me to write it. Hearing the song on the radio, I could only just imagine what would happen if Frosty ignored the traffic cop now that police have become power-tripping thugs.

There’s 7digital, which has a music store offering DRM-free MP3 downloads, as well as FLAC for many selections.

As legal-bullshit specialists, I wouldn’t put it past 'em to figure out how it’s legal for the Republican Party to spend on federal races, but not Democrats.

No worries, The Best Supreme Court That Money Can Buy™ will find some bullshit excuse legal reasoning to overturn this ruling.

This won’t stop until we abolish first-past-the-post voting, and it’s really simple to explain why: First of all, incumbents have a huge advantage in name-recognition and fundraising. They have a big advantage in their party’s primary just based on that fact. But also, FPTP voting drives people to vote strategically, against the other party’s candidate rather than for their party’s candidate. In most circumstances the incumbent is the best shot at keeping the other party at bay. (And people definitely think this way. I recall well the interviews with Democratic primary voters in 2020 chose Biden over their preferred candidate because he was the most “electable.” Or the people who voted against Clinton in 2016, even though they claimed to dislike the guy they voted for.) Then, in the general election, well, obviously, FPTP means you can’t split the vote by voting for anybody other than your party’s geriatric candidate. Voilà! A gerontocracy.

I mean, obviously, there are other factors (like the octogenarian incumbent has risen to be a real big-wig after decades in the political party structure), and replacing FPTP with a better voting system won’t fix this issue entirely. But it’s enough on its own to keep the gerontocracy going.

I guess I’m the designated article-reader today. TL;DR: Businesses need government approval to process EBT payments for the SNAP program. The regime is strictly interpreting a regulation that’s intended to prevent price-gouging SNAP recipients to inflict maximum cruelty by preventing discounts instead. It could enforce the rule by revoking a store’s SNAP-EBT approval.

Oh god, we’re so screwed. This guy can’t lie even halfway credibly.

I mean, I want to see the genocidal state dismantled, but more important than my anger is the welfare of Palestine. So, Israel just has to accept the Arab League peace offer, dismantle the aparteid state, withdraw to the 1967 borders (dismantling all settlements), recognize the state of Palestine, and co-exist in peace. That’s all it would take to win my support.

So, basically, not a chance. A genocidal, terrorist state doesn’t change its stripes.

Revoking this guy’s visa doesn’t change the fact that Kirk was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash. In fact, it rather of confirms it. If I were to, say, tweet that “Charlie Kirk was an endangered white rhinoceros wearing a bow tie,” they would’ve ignored it. (Hint: People don’t get angry about claims which are obviously false.)

Day-um, The Hard Times is leveling up lately!

Terrible, unspeakable tragedy. How did fucko make it to age 89? TANJ.

I appreciate the gamer aesthetic when scientists need to buy gear with the power to run scientific calculations for relatively cheap. The RGB lights under the case windows bring a bit of pizzazz to the laboratory.

This definitively puts to bed the notion that businesspeople/finance bros/quants are the smartest people in the room. (If anybody besides themselves still believed it.) This was not hard to see coming.

The Cannibal Sandwich, which doesn’t actually use human flesh, but is also not a sandwich. Anyway, you take a slice of rye cocktail bread, spread on some raw, ground beef, then top it with some sliced onion, salt, and pepper. You can’t get it ready-made, because nobody likes e. coli or salmonella poisoning. In fact, you have to make special arrangements to get the beef ground by a butcher in a clean grinder, and pretty much eat it the same day.

The quality triangle format obscures the truth: U.S. health care is only fast and good if you can afford to pay for it. So, for the rest of us, since it’s not cheap, it’s also not fast and not good.

That’s why we’re so pissed off.