“Cosplaying a Selma moment”. What a great turn of phrase.

I also think that knowing how to shoot accurately would be a great help for a number of saxophonists I've met.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/05/white-rural-rage-myth-00150395 Another guy whose research appears in the book. Basically, he says the book is BS (and he's a Democrat).

Dan Froomkin is a trailblazer in the area of online accountability journalism with more than two decades of experience building, editing and contributing to websites including the Huffington Post, The Intercept, and the Nieman Foundation's Watchdog Project. Over 12 years at the Washington Post, he served as Editor of the website and wrote its enormously popular White House Watch column. He teaches at New York University's American Journalism Online master’s program. He began his career at the Winston-Salem Journal, the Miami Herald, and the Orange County Register.

Crocodile tears.

Plaid flannel are my dress shirts, which I wear with my dress shorts.

...seeing J6 patriots branded as domestic terrorists and political prisoners..... LOL

@jon-nyc said in Would this guy even be nominated today?: As for the question, he’d have as much chance as Ronald Reagan would in today’s GOP. They’d both be lucky not to be booed off the stage. And we’re definitely worse off for it. Agree 100%. The extreme sides of each side seem to have the agenda right now. Unfortunate.

By the way, a Disney and DeSantis settled. So who won?

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Until the world decides otherwise we need to maintain the advantage.

@Mik said in Go To Hell: And I think one worth telling. We tend to think it couldn’t happen again, but we see the seeds everywhere. Absolutely.

@Copper said in Let me introduce you to your public defender: She's not a slave to fashion. In the various comments the Twitteratti are posting are discussions about what is appropriate for an attorney to wear into a courtroom. Many seem to think that this attire is...not courtroom-appropriate.

The Germans made Bouncing Betty's out of mostly glass towards the end of WW2. The mines were harder to detect and wounded soldiers were harder to treat, since glass fragments are harder to find on the x-ray equipment of the time.

@Mik said in Earthquake in Taiwan: 7.4 and 7.5. Those are big shakers. Speaking of which ... https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/04/style/taipei-101-earthquake-design-intl-hnk Check out that 660 ton golden steel ball that helped stabilize Taipei 101.

She’s a sport.

If these rules can be made by executive fiat, what's to prevent them from being unmade by executive fiat. Biden did exactly that with respect to the southern "border."

Just finished that book myself a couple months ago. Actually read it rather than listened. Love Steinbeck. But of course categorical statements like "invention can only occur in a single mind" can be framed as wrong, for anybody motivated to frame the idea as wrong. Which a lot of people would, to the extent the idea was used to glorify the individual over the collective.