I often think about this Chekhov story about a rural circuit court when I hear about public officials with particularly dreary workplaces.

Publishing a glossy article in The Atlantic called something like "Is it time for Duck, Duck, Goose Diplomacy?" used to be how foreign affairs consent was manufactured. Sad to see so many folks grimly shuffling through the motions.

I'm really enjoying Greg Grandin's new book which does a great job describing the development of a humanist polity in the other American nations as a counterpoint to this kind of assumed necessary racist expansionism.

For a 2010s liberal pundit, receiving this type of remonstrance from Coates probably feels like this.

A lot of you guys still don't get it. You can use your Augustiner yeast on a single Pils and you can now lager three horizontally.

King County is seeing a lot (proportionate) of growth in the context of a generational housing crisis, but otherwise, it's a mostly stagnant population base around the province.

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Bobby: They call it the Kodak Calendar. 13 months, all 28 days.

Silvio: A fangul! How are you gonna mess up three months in a season?

Bobby: It's just interesting, that's all ...

It's a link to the joke review of interstellar they did on the A Closer Look podcast. It reminds me of some friends who were like this and I now chuckle whenever I think about that movie.

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It begins like this, but then one day you are just walking around and feeling very clean, almost like some kind of money machine and then it is too late.

The Jackie Chan ones are the best because it's like two minutes of jovial banter and then a LiveLeak clip.

What is the best coffee maker.