1 and 4 strike me as "fine provided nothing actively goes wrong because of them, and if they do you're absolutely fucked"

Whatever "de-acing" treatment he underwent should have to include Posting Like Noah Smith in the list of potential side effects.

A good friend of mine is a House (of Commons) Committee clerk and has stories. Being an MP seems *miserable*. Brutal travel schedules, high divorce rates, a job that's 50% "clap/boo at the appropriate time during QP", 50% "sin-eater for your constituents". & I suspect being a US rep is even worse.

I’m frankly amazed that he hasn’t to this point

Turns out “a negroni but you can barely taste the booze and the host made three pitchers of it” is a recipe for a rough morning!

All my worst post-house party hangovers have involved either French 75s or Boulevardiers.

The dog ate my war crimes

That's elite ball knowledge right there.

We’re going to need a McMansion Hell Special Edition on this one.

This is the New York of low stakes, low-quality bowl games

I’m fairly sure Elon’s racist sex pest of a Apartheid elite father furnished him with obscure slurs for southern Europeans that neither you nor I have ever even heard of.

My brain briefly interpreted that acronym as the National University of Singapore and was quite confused

Oh hell yes we’ve reached the “COVID was a bioweapon engineered by Nintendo to sell more copies of Animal Crossing” tier of conspiracy theories.