Shouldn’t this be in the Senator Trump for SecDef DeSantis thread?

What a great piece, and fascinating indeed.

The puritans banned alcohol, too. Imagine trying to get through all the joy that Christmas brings without alcohol.

For me, David Attenborough. Love the stuff he talks about, but his voice is so soothing. That and Law and Order reruns. All dialogue based so you can close your eyes and listen to it. Out in five minutes or less.

That would be too generous I think. Maga media pushed that hard. The original authors I assume knew they were lying. But most who just heard it repeated over and over probably assumed it was true. I suspect he’s in the latter category.

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Okay. I guess Im not panromantic. 555

I'm tellin' ya, execution is the way to go. Like vinyl, it's final.

@Tom-K said in Eat like Frank: @Mik said in Eat like Frank: I can make an equally good steak at home for a LOT less, even using prime. That I see is a real problem with restaurants. If you (or your wife) can cook you can make a lot better dinners at home. The Fresh Market has a thing called "Premium Choice" that really is indistinguishable from Prime, at 1/3 the cost. As far as having dinner like Frank--I'd be up for that every now and then. For the Frank, not necessarily the food. Fresh Market is my local go to for meat and seafood. Great quality.

@Horace said in On this day: Nice song. +1

More about Kass: https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-cancel-culture-kass-20200729-chokjsdvezbtbokgwy2bc76nty-story.html The angry left-handed broom of America’s cultural revolution uses fear to sweep through the our civic, corporate and personal life. It brings with it attempted intimidation, shame and the usual demands for ceremonies of public groveling. It is happening in newsrooms in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. And now it’s coming for me, in an attempt to shame me into silence. Here’s what happened: Last week, with violence spiking around the country, I wrote a column on the growing sense of lawlessness in America’s urban areas. In response, the Tribune newspaper union, the Chicago Tribune Guild, which I have repeatedly and politely declined to join, wrote an open letter to management defaming me, by falsely accusing me of religious bigotry and fomenting conspiracy theories…. You’d think that before wildly accusing someone of fomenting bigoted conspiracy theories, journalists on the union’s executive board would at least take the time to Google the words “Soros,” “funding” and “local prosecutors.” …. Most people subjected to cancel culture don’t have a voice. They’re afraid. They have no platform. When they’re shouted down, they’re expected to grovel. After the groveling, comes social isolation. Then they are swept away. But I have a newspaper column. As a columnist and political reporter, I have given some 35 years of my life to the Chicago Tribune, even more if you count my time as an eager Tribune copy boy. And over this time, readers know that I have shown respect to my profession, to colleagues and to this newspaper. Agree with me or not — and isn’t that the point of a newspaper column? — I owe readers a clear statement of what I will do and not do: I will not apologize for writing about Soros. I will not bow to those who’ve wrongly defamed me. I will continue writing my column…. We come into this world alone and we leave alone. And the most important thing we leave behind isn’t money. The most important thing we leave is our name. We leave that to our children. And I will not soil my name by groveling to anyone in this or any other newsroom. His posts on X https://x.com/search?f=top&q=Chicago Tribune (from%3Ajohn_kass)&src=typed_query

@jon-nyc said in Two Million?: Seems like we’d see similar ratios on other threads if it were bots? The usual ratio of views to posts used to be about 10, didn't it? Seems like that's changed.

Southern Methodist is a bit of one, too…

It would be funny if math classes, those perfect prototypes of classes you can learn straight from a textbook with no help from a human instructor, and whose material has been the same for 100 or more years, cost more, because they happen to be on the path of the most marketable degrees.

@Jolly said in F you, Joe Biden: Obama wouldn't have to make that call. The Philly precinct captains would make the count, check their sheets and then manufacture however many votes needed. By the way, is California still counting votes?

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