I was talking with the dude this past week about that whole "hard to make friends in middle age" thing and how we're continuing to meet people because we get out of the house and try new things. If anything, we've made more friends & friendly acquaintances in the last few years.
down the other half of the state too. The only time I've ever seen the swastika and the n-word in bathroom graffiti at a gas station was due west of Columbus.
when we were in Upper Sandusky for a car show last summer, I kept thinking about that homeschool co-op that was just really into Hitler and I had a hard time going "oh what a cute little downtown."
Ukrainian artist 💛🩵
Hanna Sobachko-Shostak
La Nakba du Liban-Sud
Lebanese francophone outlet L’Orient Le-Jour: the Nakba of South Lebanon.
We Lebanese are calling it for what it is: a continuation of the 1948 Nakba.
The photo shows a Lebanese village with an Israeli flag on it, planted by the genocidal army.
as I was talking about yesterday but he says it so much better.
There's a great article about this artwork here.
ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog...
every detail i learn about rod dreher's life is a totally self-contained maniacal part of the whole, like my brain cells are each individual blind guys trying to figure out the elephant
dude was great at like every genre.
I keep coming back to this surprisingly good bootleg (with a long intro of the dude driving there) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWIP...
the Costco sticker on the back!
I am planning on stopping in Muncie on the way back from a thing in southern IL that I'm doing. I've never really driven west all that much besides Detroit.
definitely the worst highways I've ever been on, and a former bandmate called the turnpike over a dude wearing white supremacist flair working at one of the rest stops.
My mom's family comes from down near Terre Haute but I haven't been out there since I was a kid.
I do like the dunes.
Barron and Franklin are truly on a race to the bottom.
I am a blank slate so I'm filing these away!
(the dude has been out there but he's only really been downtown and to the speedway because he works in racing stuff).
any recommendations over there? We're into live music, good food, cozy bars, quirky stuff.
My whole extended family down outside St. Clairsville were union Democrats for decades and it's red as heck down there now and I blame a lot of that on fracking interests and Dems at the state level not even bothering to try.
laughable hearing the mayor (who's clearly angling for the DNC & going all in on big tech) talking about having a "mandate" when he essentially ran unopposed and unprimaried.
There's very little organization by the state-level Dems in the more rural areas (coal country is red now but wasn't always!), party machine gatekeeping in Cleveland, and Democrats in Columbus who really don't want to talk about donations from Les Wexner.
we've always been a swing state, we're just gerrymandered and there were a few years of poor choices and also presidential candidates not even bothering to seriously campaign here.
anybody got good Indianapolis recommendations? I've never been and our show plans this weekend fell through but we're still going out there anyway.
One of my coworkers got me into this band that does the 70's English folk with a nice dash of riffs and they're so good.
This one off the second album is a favorite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=suha...
I saw this post on a facebook group I'm in and I immediately thought of @carpetblogger1.bsky.social
This was definitely the narrative when I was a kid, especially being half Polish and my other grandparents subscribing to Human Events.
This is part of a broader push the Trump admin began in term one (that Biden didn't roll back in any way). First each visa applicant had to disclose your social media handles. Now under Trump 2, the U.S. government demands that you make your social media accounts public so they can scan 'em.
I still can't get over that Scott Stapp played Frank Sinatra in a movie about Reagan. Righty cinema out here is really something.
Workers of the world unite bio but nobody wants you as a coworker because you’re terrible
The irony, of course, is that Originalists used to be the ones banging on about this loudest: You needed a rigorous historically-anchored methodology to avoid the delegitimizing appearance that justices were just unelected superlegislators with life terms.
my old roommate loved that movie and we made a whole inside joke out of "did you take care of that thing."
just googled this and WHOA.