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I annually attend Riessersee v. Peiting in German minor-league hockey in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. I like to wear my Riessersee jersey when I'm in Canada, 'cuz it drives Canadians NUTS trying to figure out what team it is.

More importantly, wouldn't "fair weather" use "it" as its pronoun? I can hear it now. "My name is Smith, and my pronouns are "drill sergeant" and "the drill sergeant."

I've been up to 51.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to plead "ign'ant Yank" here. In point of fact, I don't think of Manitoba at all, and moose only occasionally and only for amusement. But the "AHL affiliate" thing answers my question There is a major/minor affiliation in hockey, generally like in baseball.

Good stuff. Is there a formal relationship between the Golden Nights and the Bisons? Like baseball's "farm system" where a major-league team supports and has first claim on minor-league team players? Sorry, I'm a Yank. Kinda ign'ant on this stuff.

Biscuits and sausage gravy. . .

Ryan still hasn't lived down Green Lantern. Still, gotta admit, killing Green Lantern's pretty respectable. . .

If Torchy can have his Great Big Sky Daddy myth, I see no difficulty with the narrative of the stalwart Men of Westernesse bravely fighting an ultimately losing battle against the EEE-vil Yellow Peril that controls Ottawa and wants to Destroy Canada (or take it over, pick your bogeyman).

The CCP likes their Canadian PMs loyal. Dumb is just a side benefit.

Of course. That's where the whispers of "Future PM!" start. . .

And if the "junior staffer" is considered hopeless, they'll move him into the city bureaucracy and out of the political side. I guess we'll see what their score on the loyalty test is.

Of course. But what do you think "junior staffers" are for? They make copies, bring coffee, and take the hit.

So don't say unions don't do any good.

And it's just a zit on the ass of the multiverse.

Well, my take is that you were provided with all you needed to live and thrive, through operation of the same processes that led you to exist. If Torchy wants to personify that as his Great Big Sky Daddy, it's no red off my ass. Tecumseh said "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the...

Yep, that's Northern NJ. The southern half or more of the state is more like Pennsylvania: woods, farms, and (by the way) a pretty pleasant seashore. "Joisey" gets a bad rap because of the peri-NY part. C'est la vie. It's said that Camden, NJ, right across the Delaware River from...

Southern NJ is actually pretty nice. Most of the negative perception comes from the part of Northern NJ that is the poor 'burbs of New York City.

The cost of care for old lifers is a big factor in springing 'em.

I thought that was such a central feature of parliamentary democracy that it didn't need to be considered. It's just there, a major feature.

I'm gonna have to side with Torchy on this one. It was all there, free for your use. It's humans that limited your access to it and made you work for it.