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Climbing the tallest mountain in the USA.

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I've heard that Russians don't call singularities "black holes" (in Russian) because that term is identical to their common term for "asshole", and it's just too hard to talk to lay folk about astronomy if they're snickering all the time, never mind teaching seventh grade general science.

Are there any Russians here who can confirm that?

I'm sure there is something epic waiting in the confluence of Russia, Trump, singularities, and assholes, but I'm not clever enough to see it.

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Wait, was the subpoena issued to Sam the person, the agent, or the settler?

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Or the excuse given by my falling-down drunk brother in the line for Space Mountain at Disneyland to their rent-a-cops:

Rent-a-cop #1: "Sir have you been drinking alcohol?"Bro: "No way, man"Rent-a-cop #2: "Then how do you account for the fact that you smell like alcohol, Sir?"Bro: "Well, I've been around people who were drinking!"

TBH, that last one was factually correct

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Yeah, it's like they're afraid to call a drunken asshole a drunken asshole.

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When you look at the clown car that is everything in this world associated with Donald Trump, is there any doubt that he had help, and a lot of it, from some competent, sharp, intelligent outside agency like Vladimir Putin? These people would fuck up a two-car funeral procession.

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Yeah, if that was just the warm-up, I'd hate to see the real thing up close without a Psych Team with a Thorazine dart gun handy

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To be fair, I can't find any fault with that logic.

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The Bannon Chronicles. Now there's a Netflix original series I will not be watching.

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Neither does Janice in Accounting when you get right down to it.

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I thought that was a live streaming feed from the White House.

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People of all sizes are just fine; being 'fine' has nothing to do with size or appearance. Let's not go to that place. She is plenty terrible just as a human being.

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Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.

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Nunberg is a shiny object. I keep wondering where the real gold is. I just can't believe this wasn't a deliberate attempt to distract the media.

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You put all these guys together in the same group therapy, and they'll just scream at each other until each one of them is the only one allowed to talk.

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