South Carolina's 1st Congressional District race for the seat held by Republican Representative Nancy Mace, who gave it up to launch an unsuccessful campaign for governor.

I love that for Nancy Mace.

Also, from Wikipedia:

Without having won any county in the state, and being left on fifth place in her home county of Charleston, [Nancy Mace] stated that she will go "back to the private sector" after the end of her third term in Congress.

lol. lmao even.

Anyway, assuming the projections hold, congrats to Representative-Elect Lacore.

Putting distance between himself and his Chicago rivals (source):

Capone became increasingly security-minded and desirous of getting away from Chicago. ... In 1928, Capone paid $40,000 to Clarence Busch of the Anheuser-Busch brewing family for a 10,000 square foot (930 m2) home at 93 Palm Avenue on Palm Island, Florida, between Miami and Miami Beach.

curling…pucks? Discs?

Curling stone, or curling rock. Jared Leto has indeed slid like a curling stone, unimpeded, across the Great Ice Sheet of Justice. May he one day face the hammer.

Blech, hard pass for me, I can't stand that texture.

It's mostly people streaming into the void.

It's like something Jesse Welles could've written, but a completely different vibe.

It reminds me a little of popes selling indulgences. "Donate money and/or go on crusade, and I'll absolve you of any sins you've already commited or will commit in the future." That sort of thing eventually resulted in a rather significant schism.

Not actually recent, but a while back I learned that what we call the "bottom" of the banana is actually the top, flowering end. Turns out it's way easier to open a banana at the flowering/non-stem end. So many years I'd been opening them at the other end, trying to snap off the stem part, mushing up that end of the banana most of the time.

self-exile

What a strange way to spell "running away like a coward".

Other famous people steal, John Waters appropriates with ✨panache✨.

Just kidding, John Waters doesn't need to steal, I just really wanted to write panache like that.

For etymology purists, "gacha" is the sound made by the hand-crank on a vending machine.

HL2: Episode One, in August 2006. My Steam account was actually created in August 2004, that was just the first time I gave them a credit card number. Probably the first time I actually had a credit card number to give them!