Oh almost forgot the homosexuals

The far-right narrative of self-victimization preys on insecure men by telling them that they are no longer honored like they used to be and that’s the fault of women, Jews and minorities.* fixed that for them

DIG THROUGH THE DITCHES
AND BURN THROUGH THE WITCHES
I SLAM IN THE BACK OF MY
LASER DROOOOOOOONE!

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

And now madness!

Playoff hockey. Elation in Buffalo. Electric. Emotional. Engaging. Other e words. Sports are good.

Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119 “People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.”

This quote appears in a Paris Review interview with George Plimpton published in 1990.

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I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

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Opinion | The Warmongers Are Getting History All Wrong

Thucydides alert!

"What made war inevitable, in other words, was not merely the presence of rival great powers, but the fact that one of those powers was abusing the rules of the system that had enabled its rise to greatness in the first place."

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finally watched the netflix show last month. got the audio book, just have to finish up my other civil war book, then it's next on the list.

1865ish - 1910ish has kind been my weakest understanding of a period of American history, but getting into it and there is just so much wild shit.

Top Aides Advise Trump Blasting Iran’s Infrastructure Is Fair Game Officials say hitting power plants and roadways is necessary to cripple Iran’s weapons programs.

🧵Some LOAC observations.

Whether it would be legal to attack a certain target would depend in the first place whether it was a military objective.

Military objectives may be attacked. Civilian objects may not. Attacking civilian objects is a war crime. 1/n

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Not exactly. It’s small town Texas and Hamilton Porter is in it.

A daughter just reconnected with her drunk dad and who learns to see her as a person and he reconnects with the community of parents.

The teacher is from England and introduces kids to a broader, more morally complex, but ultimately richer world.

The bad guys in The Big Green wear black and white, like in Star Wars. They impose a strict and lifeless worldview and seek to dominate the natural game through violence.

The good guys wear green. They embrace life, growth, nature, creativity and connection and are part of the field they play on

Watching a lot of kid movies because I live with a ten year old now.

And I got to tell you the 90s and 2000s, they knew how to make kids morality tales.

The visual language of the films the Hollywood studio system imposed makes for better stories.

He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.

It's not called "the wheel" -

I have an entire PhD in political science and have never been sure what constitutes "The West" in a meaningful, consistent way.

What is the term meant to include - or exclude? Are the differences between "the West" and other "civilizations" greater than the differences within the so-called "west"?

Stahlke talking NTC.

Nature is healing. As is Stahlke

*At the debate between actions and words*

Words: I think one key area my opponent and I differ on is volume. Whereas I…

Actions: SPEAK UP NO ONE CAN HERE YOU BRO

Words, mumbling: they won’t be laughing when they meet my friends Sticks and Stones

*At the debate between actions and words*

Words: I think one key area my opponent and I differ on is volume. Whereas I…

Actions: SPEAK UP NO ONE CAN HERE YOU BRO

Words, mumbling: they won’t be laughing when they meet my friends Sticks and Stones

So Roberts and his team of hack partisans have essentially usurped the powers and roles of the other branches because they are ideologically committed to right wing causes. There is no legal reasoning here--just an exertion of power.
So much for Roberts as institutionalist (that was already dead)

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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Someone else might also say “well and don’t you almost always wear long pants to play baseball”

Which is also true.

A bad faith actor might then argue that in men’s league in his home town shorts are allowed. And now that’s an argument. But it misses the overall fuckery of the moment

And then someone said “that’s not a baseball that he tossed right? The diameter isn’t within regs for a baseball.

And I mean yeah it’s right, but it doesn’t capture how much what happened just wasn’t, from first principles, the game of baseball.

Like if a random guy walked up to the batters box holding a hockey stick and facing the wrong way and wearing basketball shorts and then self tossed himself a softball and hit it into the stands behind home plate and then was saying it was a home run because when you hit a ball into the stands

I do have a law degree and yeah you are not crazy.

But it’s kind of one of those things where there is a whole lot of fucked up things and it’s almost hard to articulate and rank them, because so much is just incompatible with very basic ideas about how we generally think and talk about the law

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.