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Tue, 15/04/2025 - 03:40

People think of Applebee’s as a safe suburban fixture, a place where people go for an innocuous meal at a reasonable price—but strap in, jagoff, because this Applebee’s is not like other Applebee’s. Instead of license plates and joyful Americana, our walls are festooned with divorce certificates and failed attempts at taxidermy.

Most of the animals are dead, at least.

Other Applebee’s branches have sports on TV. So do we—assuming you consider Czechoslovakian pig-throwing a sport. Those guys can really chuck a hog. If you don’t like it, why don’t you just shuffle across the parking lot to Chili’s? They have all the anodyne comforts your dainty bourgeois sensibilities require, like barstools that aren’t eight feet high.

That’s right, our patrons like it when their feet dangle.

Our servers have tattoos that didn’t go right, medically speaking. They’re bleeding and stuff. But once they heal, you’re going to love looking at them, assuming you like seeing shamrocks beating up non-Irish flowers. It sounds harsh, but the flowers had gotten real mouthy with the shamrocks earlier, insulting the clovers’ cousins and whatnot.

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Tue, 15/04/2025 - 01:00

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My latest book is called This Is How We Love: The Foto-Novel. It’s the story behind the worst movie to have ever won the Academy Award. Have you not heard of this movie?

Let me tell you about it.

But where to begin? Should we begin with the fabled “curse” that afflicted nearly everyone associated with this notorious film, including the gaffers and all three lighting technicians, not to mention the poor thespian pooch, Charlie Boy, the first of two canines to play “Bones the Blind Dog”?

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Mon, 14/04/2025 - 21:00

As a medical professional, I’ve dedicated my career to improving public health and promoting evidence-based practices. This is why I am here today to tell you that one of the most widely used tools for measuring obesity—body mass index (BMI)—is a failure.

Now, as surgeon general, I am proud to declare that BMI’s tyranny over America’s health is dead. And it shall be replaced with a far more effective system—a group of very mean middle schoolers who will tell you whether you’re fat or just ugly and cringe.

The antiquated BMI metric fails to consider various factors that affect weight, such as muscle mass, bone density, and fat distribution. For instance, a bodybuilder can register as “obese,” and a sedentary person could be considered “normal.”

But rude middle schoolers circumvent these concerns by zeroing in on and magnifying even the tiniest flaws. If anyone can truly assess someone’s obesity, it’s a group of sharp-eyed, perpetually judgmental, social-media-savvy twelve-year-olds.

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Mon, 14/04/2025 - 20:46
Apr 01, 2025 Crossposted from “Brave New Europe” At last week’s Paris meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron congratulated themselves on reinserting Europe into the peace process opened up by President Trump. In practice, they have done their best to derail it. Nothing is more foolish than their idea … Continue reading Europe’s Misguided Interventions
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Mon, 14/04/2025 - 18:45
Utrymmet för kurser i ekonomisk teorihistoria och ekonomisk metodologi har stadigt minskat på våra ekonomiutbildningar på senare tid. Detta är djupt beklagligt eftersom det är förödande på sikt för en akademisk disciplin att inte hålla kopplingen till tidigare forskningsmödor levande och att inte ställa viktiga vetenskapsteoretiska och metodologiska frågor om den egna verksamheten. Hur har […]
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Mon, 14/04/2025 - 17:00
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Mon, 14/04/2025 - 16:23
We know that after the Second World War, as nations embraced their major national policy statements (White Papers in many countries) to build their societies after the disruption of the War and the Great Depression, income inequality fell significantly. Since the 1970s, the post WW2 trend has been somewhat reversed in many (but not all)…
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Mon, 14/04/2025 - 14:19

If the popularity of the Squid Game TV series and The Hunger Games film and book franchise are any indication, working people around the world tend to sympathise with characters trapped in a sadistic, unwinnable game.  And why not? In this moment of capitalism, most of us feel that our chances of securing a good […]