I think I was biased because I started getting into heavy music around the time they were getting soft and doing symphonic nonsense.

I think I have to admit I've been wrong for a few decades about Metallica. Their old stuff kind of whips.

Priest denies MP holy communion over his support for assi... Lib Dem condemns ‘outrageous’ behaviour of Catholic priest who said a vote in favour would be ‘obstinately persevering’ in sin

More of this please.

When my daughter contemplates throwing her food off her highchair tray

Can't decide if this is a Pynchon name or a Bond mistress name.

Don Draper voice: “That’s what the tuition is for”

By all means be vocal about the evil that is taking place with the support of our government, but at some point a narrative of resistance becomes not just intellectually, but morally irresponsible.

Probably my most blackpilled political take these days is that the left needs to come to grips with the fact that Gaza is, for all intents and purposes, a lost cause. The only questions remaining are about the logistics of ethnic cleansing.

Giving Pink Floyd's "The Division Bell" a chance for the first time and digging it.

Also funny when people try to make a disjunction between St. Paul and the gospels given that St. Luke's gospel is the first half of a complete work, the second half of which is the Acts of St. Paul (and the other apostles).

In our age of unmitigated consumerism it really shouldn't be this hard for me to find a decent Rush "Fly by Night" t-shirt for my daughter.

tim tebow the letter

My laptop is just barely able to play Expedition 33 and I’m glad I took a chance on it. I’m not normally into turn-based combat, but the parry system is really fun.

And now I’m once again depressed about the death of good popular music.

Never fully clicked in my head that it was Van Morrison doing the chorus on the “Comfortably Numb” live recording they used in The Departed. I just thought about it and looked up the album. What a lineup of guests. Joni Mitchell, the Band, Cyndi Lauper, etc.

Christ is risen. God bless you all this Easter.

It’s certainly possible, but if he’s alive his return will likely be a PR nightmare for the admin, which is another possible reason for their foot dragging.

Anyways, this is what I tell myself.

And domestically I have to think once the economic impact starts hitting consumers and small businesses it's likely to do a lot of damage to the GOP's ability to pursue their other ambitions.

If Trump is going to kneecap the US in its role as world leader, there were far more violent methods he could have chosen. And now I suspect a lot of those methods are increasingly unlikely given the ill-will he has stirred up across the world.

Not to downplay the real-world impacts of the economic crisis, but I do take solace in the fact that the worst people in the country have lashed themselves to the mast of policies that will have objectively disastrous impacts on the US economy, and all within the first few months of the admin.

Like a record, baby, right round

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"you can't be talking like that priest baby"

It’s been a few hundred years, I think it’s time for us to quietly admit that indulgences are silly and stop talking about them.

Love to be responsible for a billing system that takes in thousands of dollars a day and is built with the code equivalent of chewing gum and popsicle sticks.

The algorithm also has weird cycles. When I first signed up all I saw was posts from aspiring writers. Then it was foodies. One day it was furries. All better than nazis, but still not ideal.

“He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”

Maybe this is too cynical of me, but I can't help but think that Trump going after the people pardoned by Biden might be good for giving the democratic leadership a little skin in the game.

Would be wonderful on so many levels if the current twitter outage was permanent.