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Was it a case of a - salt?

(go ahead, beat on me, I swear I couldn't resist)

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I use color-changing outdoor path lights and it looks festive all year.

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Sydney has a contact us page, just saying. I asked her to rep me in a case against antifa ham sammiches.

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ANTIFA HAM SAMMICHES!!!

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In olden days, we used to refer to the Salk vaccine as the polio vaccine, but the mumps-measles vaccine as MMR.

Of course it's a stupid-ass idea, look where it came from.

It does lead me to wonder whether it'll cause the anti-vaxxers to split from the QANON/Trump crowd.

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No but yeah, we had to remember to do diligent adulting.

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...And half of them are going: "SIGH, EXACTLY AS WE EXPECTED" and the other half is going: "THAT IS WHAT EXCEPTIONAL 'MURICAN LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE!!! STOP THE STEAL!!!!"

Sadly, we're well past the days when people might've actually learned something from all this.

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Oh, wait, is this Wonkette?

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Lou came to coach at the University of Minnesota. It was such a big deal, they built a huge new indoor practice facility for him. He was going be their dedicated football coach for years to come. Instead he quit and went to Notre Dame.

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Or, you know, outraged enough NOT to vote in the GA runoff. Oops!

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Reminds me of a story from the Edward Tufte seminar on visual representation. Princeton sent a congratulatory letter to successful applicants that consisted of one word in yuuge letters: Yes. Who wouldn’t treasure a letter like this?

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Please do! Such a close call.

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I thought of the mnemonic device: ‘laches’ means ‘lapses.’ D’oh!

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I worked in central Wisconsin on a big civil project. I knew at least one equipment operator who mentioned stockpiled weapons and ammo “in case the [Blacks] from Milwaukee came a-callin’. This was circa 1992.

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I couldn’t believe it either. Chicago sportscaster Bruce Wolf actually wrote a parody song about Lou’s hairdo, the “Lou Do.” It was hilarious.

Presidential Medal? Uh, no.

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