Turns out “America 250” was a temperature forecast ...
If you're not following me on Bluesky you're missing out on a marathon of fun paired history facts about the countries in every World Cup matchup, featuring once-in-a-lifetime sentences like "In 1893, 200 Australian sheep shearers boarded a ship to follow a leftist labor journalist around Cape Horn and establish a utopian socialist, teetotal, whites-only New Australia on free land in the Paraguayan jungle." Remedy this immediately. ...
t's great that the cage fight at the White House - an almost fatally embarrassing thing in its own right; try saying the phrase out loud - is happening during the NBA Finals, the Stanely Cup Finals, and the Men's World Cup. Unless he dies at ringside, it might be the 4th sports headline on Monday. Emphasis on "might be."
Sure we're auctioning off whatever tiny shreds of dignity we have left as a nation but isn't it worth it to maybe be the top story on Yahoo! Sports for 20 minutes between World Cup group stage results like "Paraguay vs. Turkey" and "Ascension Island vs. Bir Tawil" ...
jon says:
I work in a prison and heard this heartwarming tale from an inmate:
During a volleyball game on the rec field, a group of white inmates were playing against some Mexican inmates (the divides in prison are usually like this.) Anyway, the ball was called out. How far out was it? The paisano held his hands a bit apart and said, "Five dollar."
ben says:
isn't this a perfect example of that most republican of all ideas: the free market?
J. Dryden says:
In my more cynical/realistic moments, I've argued to my gay friends that they will be truly accepted not when they're allowed marriage, but when two guys kiss on a nationally televised ad for Coke. Because once corporate America–which controls *way* more of our cultural values than we care to admit–collectively decides "you're in," *that's* the point at which you've passed your hazing and are part of the gang.
MarilynJean says:
J. Dryden is so right. Since the Obama family entered the White House, the amount of advertising featuring non-white people of various brown shades has skyrocketed. I get my lady-centric commericals AND my "urban" themed commericals!
jazzbumpa says:
Ben –
Free market is a Libertarian idea.
Republicans just want to kill people.