Me neither. *I* like his books. Everything I know about the British Romantics I know because of the vampire story "The Stress Of Her Regard"

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

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Today I learned that Peter Thiel has read "The Last Ringbearer," the Russian LOTR fanfic where the orcs and Ringwraiths were the good guys all along.

And this of course makes perfect sense.

oh dear lord these really are the worst people on the planet and should all be in prison for the rest of their lives and not sitting in the cabinet and i hate it here

Ed Helms Dont Know What Im Doing GIF Alt: Ed Helms Dont Know What Im Doing GIF

What's correct?

I only know two ways to hold stemware:

--palm cupping the bowl, the stem between my middle and ring fingers, as though I am an anime villain swirling his "fruit juice" while taunting Yu-gi-oh

--pinching the stem between three fingers and thumb as though critiquing the vintage

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Fair point.

This sounds like something Tim Powers would write.

Heck, it’s even right there in “Parting of the Ways.”

When the Dalek Emperor asks if he is "coward or killer," the Doctor responds, "Coward, any day.”

CNN put together a montage of Trump saying as far back as March 9 that his war against Iran "is going to be finished pretty quickly," then him saying that same thing over and over for the past six weeks

The government was behind the moon landing

False prophets without clothes It's not pretty

Doug Wilson’s nonsense, theological and otherwise, is on full display. His bluster doesn’t work without yes men telling him he’s right.
The emperor has no clothes, and it’s not a pretty sight. It is pretty dang funny, though.
This is who he is. This is all he is.”

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"towards people" I think

are any america-first conservatives not funded from overseas

This explains so much about my only experience with it.

You can, apparently!

To the man's face, no less! (Well, virtually, anyway.)

a man in a suit drinking from a cup with the words awkward silence below him Alt: a man in a suit drinking from a cup with the words awkward silence below him

My favorite was the joke he made about socialism where the other three just looked at him like

Right? What did that even mean?!

Thank you, Bill.

An onion will do well for such a shift

Okay, but I'm going to be making lightsaber noises with my mouth the whole time.

He was the one who halfway through the interview make a point to call Wilson "Doug" and then said, "I'm tired of calling a man like you 'pastor,' I'm just calling you Doug from now on."

I’m not a mom but I feel this.

I forget which one Tim is, but not bad? The other two guests very quickly found a tag-team rhythm dunking on Wilson.

“Let me bring a banger from the Bible. ‘Beware of false prophets, who inwardly are ravening wolves.’ That’s for you, Pastor Wilson.”

YES!!! PREACH!!!

“We’re Gonna Have ANOTHER War!” Iran REJECTS President Trump’s Peace Talks YouTube video by Piers Morgan Uncensored

This was worth watching just so I could see Doug Wilson try his slippery word games and just get swatted aside like a gnat.

(Apparently he was on because Morgan couldn’t find anyone else willing to publicly defend the war with Iran.)

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(Actually, what's funny is, some of the tricks I'm using to get my Trinidad Scorpion peppers growing faster were pioneered by indoor cannabis growers. Thanks cannabis growers! I'll probably name a hot sauce after ya.)