Canada Sends Polite Regards to the United States on Its Semi-Quasi-Bisequi-Whateverennial (opens in new tab)

Dear United States, Please accept these civil and cautiously optimistic congratulations on achieving a quarter millennium as a nation. We hope this reaches you in time for the celebrations. We didn’t realize that a “semiquincentennial” was an actual thing. Sorry. It’s become really hard to tell when you’re trolling and when you’re being sincere with an alarming amount of confidence. Our invitation was addressed to the “51st state,” so we assumed it was some kind of Trojan-horse-style scheme a...