meed
mmeed.bsky.social
meed
@mmeed.bsky.social
Writer, musician, data guy, in ascending order of profitability. Ex-pat Canadian. Apologies for anything I say in advance.

PS: We laugh to keep from crying. Keep that one close.
ETTD is as real and immutable a principle as gravity.
December 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The only difference between Musk and The sorcerer's apprentice is Mickey had more brains.
December 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I love de Bears, despite being an Eagles fan. I just can't help myself.

That said, Christmas definitely came early for them.

The upside for the Packers is their backup QB seems very much for real.
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It will then become incumbent upon us to remind our lawmakers if the broken window principle.
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Are we actually surprised these people are in innumerate as well as illiterate?
December 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The beginning of all wisdom is a recognition that the world doesn't care who I follow or not, and is only very occasionally interested in my opinion.

It's liberating really.
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Trump's blue sharpie is doing some very heavy lifting here.
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is just me, but I never saw Forrest Gump as a moron so much as an innocent wandering through history. I always thought it was telling that the people around him interpreted his innocence as a mental disability.
December 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Their incompetence might just save us all.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Paraphrasing a line from Gore vidals the best man, it's not that you're a bastard, don't get me wrong there, it's just that you're such a stupid bastard.
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It boils down to a simple question for the Democrats: How bad were our candidates that we lost twice to Donald f****** Trump?
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Executive summary: Forrest, trees.
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Not sure that's a source of comfort given nuclear footballs and things, but I take your larger point.
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Wait. You talk nice?
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I may be a cockeyed optimist but we may be at a point somewhere between things happening gradually then all at once. It could be the great overwhelmer is on the brink of being overwhelmed.
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Start from the position of naked short-term interest, stir in a reptilian sense of survival, and everything MTG does follows logically.
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It is a good song. I had the pleasure of seeing them at a coffee house in the late sixties in Ottawa Canada. They were every bit as good live.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Nah, you are one of the honest few who admit it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Also, as a practical matter, didn't Trump carry the popular vote in the 2024 election? Seems like a magic bullet of very small caliber.
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
In short, why not devolve into a parliamentary system like Canada, which someone accurately described is electing a dictatorship every 5 years. A system in which the two most populous provinces, especially their urban areas, dictate how the country is run all the rest of Canada is basically ignored.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM