Posts in the category “asides”

I would rather watch three straight hours of Progressive commercials than another Avatar movie.

Newly published study says now inevitable that ~3% of Greenland ice sheet will melt due to climate change, triggering global sea-levels to rise a foot, an outcome we couldn’t avoid at this point even if world stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today.

I just finished Fed Up from Wondery Media and now I want Casey Rose Wilson to narrate every podcast in my feed. Politics, sports, World War II, true crime, everything.

“They’re espadrilles but they’re flat,” my wife said to me in Rome with the same mistaken confidence it would be understood as if I’d remarked to her that Chamberlain should never have been fooled by the Stresa Conference and appeasement was always destined to fail.

Dave (Warner Bros., 1993, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver) is a perfect movie made even better by Charles Grodin and Ving Rhames. And it even has a cameo by the brilliant Nina Totenberg.

Huge day for The National Ketchup Council.

I’m not terrified of inflation or student loan debt.
I’m not terrified of global warming or tornadoes or hurricanes.
I’m not terrified of nuclear war or Russia or China.
I’m not terrified of COVID or monkeypox or salmonella.
I’m terrified of dropping my son off at kindergarten.

I knew plenty of the bullied and the bullies all through elementary and high school. It was just a lot harder to get an assault rifle back then.

There is no such thing as a responsible gun owner.