He has a different way of calculating inflation, polls, unemployment and tax revenue too.

...but tells server that it can not exchange vouchers that the server received for cash. So server out-of-pocket $100 tip because Restaurant chain decided it could be reimbursed by the City for monopoly money but server couldn't.

Restaurant chain partners with City and issues "meal vouchers" to tourists for major event. Tourists come in to eat and use all of their voucher "dollars" since they can't be spent anywhere back home. Ask server if they can use balance of voucher for tip. Restaurant gets reimbursed...

Magyar now polling third in the Iowa caucus.

A bad case of chronic dying.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

I finally watched Chernobyl (I'm late to a lot of TV, okay!) and the line, "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid." will stick with me for a while, because holy hell is it more relevant now than ever before.

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet.

This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

Jack Holloway plays his electric guitar on the altar of Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn while, off to the side, a Despair Sanctuary crew member monitors the sound.

“Sing and rejoice, ye children of the day and of the light,” George Fox told his fellow Quakers, “for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt.”

Feeling helpless in the face of evil is understandable—but it shouldn't be the end of the story.

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Reminds me of Band Camp.

If only there was a way US politics could learn a lesson from that.

Footnotes from p. 221 of Ancient Church Dedications in Scotland, by James Murray Mackinlay (1910) 1 Appendix K. Mr. E. P. Evans, in his Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Art, tells us that the skull of St. Peter as a child may be seen in one shrine, while his fully developed cranium as an adult is kept in another; but he does not mention where the shrines are to be found. 2 Barnes' St. Peter in Rome, pp. 6, 69, 81, etc. 3 N. S. A. Aberdeen, p. 105. 4 History of Buchan, p. 311.

My favourite relic, yet to be located … “the skull of St Peter as a child” (from Ancient Church Dedications in Scotland, by James Murray Mackinlay (1910), p. 221)
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Very cool! I found out that my 8th-great-grandmother owned an ordinary in Boston while I was doing research on my book. My 7th-great-grandfather basically grew up there and it got me thinking about all of the things that he would have seen and overheard as a child in a busy ordinary on King St.

*Groundhog Day pitch meeting* You know how some rodents are clairvoyant?

Instead, thousands of voices cry out, including my own, when the patrols are really more dangerous than the people they are supposedly protecting us from.

Tens of thousands of people do not line the streets in 20 degree below weather in order to protect murderers and rapists. Hundreds of clergy do not protest the lawful apprehension of a violent criminal. They would welcome their communities being made safer.

One Friend from Goose Creek Friends was asked about being in fear of the Blacks, and didn't they want the slave patrols to protect them? The Friend answered, "In our neighborhood, among the Friends, there was no fear or uneasiness. The patrols sent out were really more dangerous than the slaves."

Resources were poured into slave patrols which would ride around the countryside looking for trouble... and they often found it. Virginia Quakers had long forbid their members from serving in or supporting the slave patrols (since 1740).

The legislation to end slavery in Virginia was voted down 65 to 58. Just seven votes. Once that legislation failed, the Assembly passed all sorts of legislation forbidding teaching, free assembly, free movement... of all Blacks, free or enslaved.

In the Summer of 1831, about 30 miles from where I live, there was a revolt led by Nat Turner, an enslaved Black. Panic spread among the slaveholders. The Virginia Assembly considered legislation to end slavery, encouraged by Virginia Quakers like those at Somerton.

"If you say we murdered one person, we'll have no choice but to murder you all."

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but today is Thursday.

From bird droppings to holiday kisses: How we ended up under the mistletoe The etymology of mistletoe — a plant with small, oval evergreen leaves and waxy white berries — may strike some as repugnant.

The etymology of mistletoe — a plant with small, oval evergreen leaves and waxy white berries — may strike some as repugnant.

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

The Trump administration believes that the rich and powerful should be pardoned for their crimes, even after judges and juries determined their guilt.

But if you’re a non-white guy in a fishing boat, there’s no need for a trial or even an arrest. Murder from above, no questions asked.

One reason you can’t win over authoritarians with appeals to America’s best traditions is that they hate America’s best traditions.

Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.