Why You’ll Get Addicted (The "Just One More Time" Syndrome) We’ve all been there. You tell yourself you’ll play for five minutes during your lunch break. Suddenly, it’s 2:00 AM, you’ve forgotten to eat dinner, and you’re screaming at your monitor because you missed your Personal Best by 0.001 seconds. Speed Stars thrives on this competitive loop for a few key reasons: Zero Loading Friction: You can jump into a race in seconds. No 10GB updates, no long intros—just pure racing. The Leaderboards: Nothing motivates a human being like seeing a stranger’s name above theirs on a list. You will hunt down those top scores. Low Barrier, High Ceiling: Anyone can play it, but only the elite can truly master the rhythm required for world-class times. Humorous Survival Tips for the Aspiring Speed Star Before you head over to Speed Stars , take these survival tips to heart: Warm up your fingers: We recommend "The Spider Dance" on your desk for at least 30 seconds. Carpal tunnel is the only enemy we can't help you defeat. Don't blink: In the 100m dash, a single blink is basically a retirement announcement. Apologize to your keyboard in advance: Your "Left" and "Right" arrow keys (or your screen) are about to undergo a structural integrity test. The "Focused Face": You will eventually make a face that looks like you’re trying to solve a complex calculus equation while eating a lemon. This is normal. This is the face of a champion.

The worst government waste of 2026 - and we gave out trophies for it | Teddy Waste Awards! Plaques for dead raccoon. Fake soccer balls. An agency that gets tax questions right 17% of the time. Welcome to the 2026 Teddy Waste Awards — where the Canadian Taxpayers Federation hands out golden pig trophies to the worst government waste offenders of the year. 🐷 MUNICIPAL AWARD — City of Toronto Heritage Toronto spent nearly $2,000 on a plaque to memorialize a raccoon that died in 2015. 🐷 PROVINCIAL AWARD — B.C. Premier David Eby The B.C. government spent $354,000 on three “wood-leather soccer balls” for display purposes. You can’t kick them. They’re not round. But you paid for them. 🐷 FEDERAL AWARD — Canada Revenue Agency The Auditor General found the CRA answered personal income tax questions correctly just 17% of the time. For business taxes: 54%. “Completeness of response:” 31%. You might as well ask a Magic 8 Ball for tax advice. 🐷 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council The SSHRC costs taxpayers $1 billion a year and funds studies on the life cycle of a grocery cart, casual sex in Jasper, erotic video games and disgraced rodeo princesses. The government calls this research into “issues that matter most to Canadians.” The Teddy Waste Award is named after Ted Weatherill, a federal bureaucrat fired in 1999 for submitting dubious expense claims — including a $700 lunch for two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCXUELQhOO0

Sufferers of Kennedy Derangement Syndrome (KDS) pathologically reject beneficial policy prescriptions if they are recommended by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Mr. Kennedy challenged toxic dyes in children’s food. He seeks to improve soil health. He will be conducting more thorough studies of pesticides (and novel drugs). He wants to restrict pharmaceutical advertising and restore the integrity of captured regulatory agencies. He is working on enhancing the quality of school lunches, and undertake a host of other initiatives to improve Americans’ health.​ These should not be controversial or partisan in nature -- but then democrats -- they never really had any common sense . . . https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/kennedy_derangement_syndrome_running_rampant.html

The Americans are eating Canada’s digital lunch. Why are we letting them? 🇨🇦#MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted🇨🇦 🇨🇦#SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud🇨🇦 🇨🇦#JustSayNoMore🇨🇦 🇨🇦#CarneyLies🇨🇦 https://open.substack.com/pub/michellerempelgarner/p/the-americans-are-eating-canadas

How sad. I hope Bobby Kennedy can put a stop to this and start preparing HEALTHY meals for American children in school . . . A few decades ago, many U.S. school cafeterias prepared meals from scratch for hundreds of students each day. As years passed, some kitchen staff watched fresh ingredients like flour and eggs disappear, replaced by boxes of pre-packaged, processed foods.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/us-last-lunch-line

Update (1530ET): Moments after Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky left the White House following an explosive argument in front of the press (scroll down), and President Donald Trump shredded any chance of a Ukraine deal to end the war (anytime soon), two things happened. 1. White House staffers reportedly eating the lunch initially prepared for Zelensky after President Trump kicked him out of the White House. “The lunch he was supposed to have was sitting right out in the hallway… and staffers will now be eating that lunch,” per Fox. 2) Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated US support for restoring Ukraine's energy grid, which was funded by a USAID initiative that had invested hundreds of millions of dollars, NBC reports https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-meets-zelensky-says-minerals-deal-be-signed-today-will-use-ukraine-rare-earths

Wow! Who knew that actual common sense would be a good thing? Florida School District Banned Cell Phones and the Results Have Been Wild A Florida school district that banned student cell phone use this school year is reporting fewer problems and better grades. Broward County Public Schools banned any phone use, including at lunchtime. “I’ve noticed a lot more creativity with students, I think their attention spans are a little longer, they have excellent conversations in their groups, those conversations are lasting longer, our class discussions are definitely a lot longer and they’re a lot deeper because no one’s really focused on checking their phone,” Dan Katz, who teaches drama and law at Fort Lauderdale High School, said. School board member Allen Zeman said fights are down 17 percent from the same point a year ago. According to school administrators, he said, “the lack of cellphones is taking away an ability for people to organize fights and organize big numbers of people to get together and fight during or after school. Zeman said academic achievement has improved throughout the schools because of the policy. “This year, at the halfway point, our gains are greater than they were, the gains, from last year,” Zeman said. “I had a teacher write to us and say for the first time in 10 years, for each student in her classroom, she had two eyeballs watching her give a lecture,” he said. A Broward County Schools news release said that banning cell phone use, even during lunch, led to “[p]rioritizing school as a place for learning that is distraction-free. This can help students stay focused on academics and maintain a learning mindset throughout the school day.”

The number two at Canada’s central bank just made it clear she isn’t a policy cheerleader, like the Governor has been in recent months. Bank of Canada (BoC) Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers addressed finance professionals at the Economic Club of Canada last week, explaining the usual mortgage market risks. It got more interesting when she trekked into the rarely discussed issue of cheap credit and extended amortizations and how they actually erode affordability, even though politicians claim otherwise. The Deputy Governor warned policymakers that “there’s no free lunch,” and tinkering with the mortgage market can have the opposite impact while amplifying longer term risks to households, and the greater economy. https://betterdwelling.com/bank-of-canada-warns-policymakers-against-tinkering-with-mortgages/

Joe Biden is not available for duty anymore. The “out-to-lunch” sign hangs permanently on the doorknob of the Oval Office now. The USA does not have a functioning chief-of-state for the first time in 235 years. After 2021, some sort of unelected, informal Politburu that self-assembled in the White House, like a clot from a Covid vaccine shot, is running our affairs . . .

California’s Latest Ban Triggers Major Shift in School Lunches https://www.lifezette.com/2024/09/californias-latest-ban-triggers-major-shift-in-school-lunches/ via @lifezette