GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?"
IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"
Also that exposition box at the top needs a raise, considering all the work it's doing.
A strong candidate for the "Exactly What It Says on the Tin" page at tvtropes.
Definitions of "supposed to" can vary widely, I've found.
He's been a Republican for years. He's just finally getting around to updating his paperwork.
Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
calmatters.org/investigatio...
He's not antivax because vaccines hurt people, he's antivax because vaccines keep people alive.
nature occasionally red in tooth and claw but quite frequently just wants scritches
Watching the captioning saying "United wanting to buy american senators on both sides of the aisle" and thinking "well duh."
He also seems to think that commencement addresses are occasions for dialogue, which . . . has not been my experience.
Him: What would be your dream job
Me: Oh that's easy. Sitting on the back of a motorbike on the Tour de France pushing idiots into the ditch
Him: Oh come off it there's no such job
Me:
Kidnap Ho Chi Minh and cut a deal with Giap. Too bad we didn't have any smart presidents in those days.
Birthdays, anniversaries, things of that nature. Less predictable times too.
I like it when I can get to the bus stop/train station/airport and step right onto my bus/train/plane. It's the dream. But I know it's not a reasonable expectation, because I'm a grown-ass man. I will not be taking questions.
torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"
Famously Sauron's eye never missed any intruders upon his land
Well . . . there were. Maybe not any more.
I'm inclined to read it as a rhetorical "once upon a time, many years ago" rather than a precise historical reference. It's still unfortunate.
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I absolutely recommend Red Harvest as social history of the west. Dain Curse is like early Chandler: some short stories patched together to novel length, maybe with more concern for internal coherence than Chandler had.
Spade is an independent operator; the Op is a company man.
This is important.
That and Bill Kristol. I'm not saying I want the '90s back, but I kinda want the '90s back.
"American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace, and we at Palantir have had just about enough of that."
Oh dip, I'd forgotten she existed. May I soon return to that blessed state.
At first, the signs the Age of Man was drawing to its end were small and subtle.
Which is amazing, considering you've literally never been fed.
