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I'd say it's at least equally about the American decline of vigorous exercise.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd say it's at least equally about the American decline of vigorous exercise.
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David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
And a mule, Josh. They'll all get a mule.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Plus a mule.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Or sleep together for real just once.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Ron, you may want to confiscate the President's Motorola for "repairs" this weekend.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Soon to be a major motion picture!
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Surprised he's getting into the minutiae of the prices behind the allegation rather than standing on the pretextual argument...
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Nostalgia is a powerful and brain-warping drug, man. A step away from "Make Bluesky Great Again."
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Bill Clinton wasn't President in 1992, unless he was a guest of President GHW Bush.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
It's an ancient Chinese secret.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
We should consider the idea that POTUS received some back-channel assurance that SCOTUS won't block him from doing this.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
When you have a cameo in "Inglorious Basterds"...
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Caught a screening of "The Roses" last night. An interesting departure from the DeVito version; much less dark but the relationship is far more layered. My dark heart prefers the original but I get what this one is trying to do. Lightly recommend.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Ask yourself, "What would Dave Roberts do?"
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Payoff didn't quite live up to the buildup IMO, but endorse this completely. A great time at the movies.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
They've agreed on the shape of the table?
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
If given his druthers, Trump would definitely not ask to be called"Mr. President."
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Agree with Zellweger - good call. Disagree with the others.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Trying to think of an actress who's had legit on screen chemistry with him, and coming up empty.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
You're presuming something not in evidence.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Everyone's got a nut.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
youtu.be/wRWCK9zGynA?...
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Roland, the headless Thompson gunner.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
As my mother once told me long ago, "Growing old sucks. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise."
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Tea is VERY slippery.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
He's a pig. But it should've been a decision they all made.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
The credulous framing of this article is like believing those hotel cards that say they didn't want to wash your towels daily because it's better for the environment.
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Slightly diminish a band: Teal Day.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Where have you gone, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young?
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I think about the line in the (very bad) Twilight Zone episode "The Brain Center at Whipples" - "When you're dead and buried, who do ya get to mourn for you?"
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
"These new tariffs set the table with a new way to fine China."
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Constitutionally, the SoS is the "keeper of the seals of office." It's not dissimilar to how a corporate Board chair resigns to the corporate secretary. This is a great party trivia question...
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
It's my favorite piece of trivia... and even more interesting is why.
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David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but what's the password to the (White) HOUSE?
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Wondering if there's actually LESS here than meets the eye - an email encouraging IRS employees to leave an hour early is practically begging to enrage/ bait Trump - and especially Vought.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Just wait until that new Murdoch rag gets going...
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Why couldn't it? And don't underestimate how much street cred a D candidate would get in a primary by pledging to tear down BOTH the physical and legal pillars of Trump's moral and political corruption. What an image that would be - those wrongly detained in ICE camps taking a sledgehammer to it.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Mamdani made sure Slim Slicker was locked down before he made the deal.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Even better, pledge to have all those wrongly incarcerated by ICE take the ceremonial first whack at it with a sledgehammer.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
ADP.
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David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a hamburger stand on Pico what r the owner doubled as the Westside's bookie. If you asked for a "special order" he'd pull you over to the side of the counter to book the action. And he fried up perfect golden crispy steak fries too.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Everyone's fighting to win the immunity speedos in the first elimination game.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like the Doonesbury Watergate-era "ah, the People's business" strip come to life.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes! Pledge to tear down both the legal AND physical manifestations of this presidency.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
An opening for a D candidate to pledge to tear down both the legal AND physical manifestations of this presidency, at least.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
What an act!
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I say "sorry Mom, the mob has spoken" at least once a week.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
As long as the erst is first the while goes to trial.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
"I've seen the future. It's a bald man from New York!"
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Roman Hruska
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Roman Hruska.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
The last time I was truly awed by aCGI special effect was probably the city street-bending scene in Inception, and that was 2010. We're all pretty jaded by now.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I keep thinking of the video of the 1979 Baath Party Conference when I watch these people.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Those poor soldiers were standing around the Federal Building in Westwood in full gear, looking completely bored out of their minds. I felt sorry for them.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
IOW, "In my mag, I'll lede the article with a Rounders quote WHENEVER THE FUCK I PLEASE."
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
This pretty much describes my approach to every blind/first date I've ever been on.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Only if he looks and sounds like Paul Giamatti.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, *theoretically* Roberts carved out a specific exception for firing the Federal Reserve chair, so it would take something special for the majority to weasel out of that language. Likely what the pretextual cost overrun stuff is for.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
As a practitioner or patient, sir?
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I think Lynch tried to pass off The Straight Story as "experimental" to sustain his rep as boundary-pushing, but in truth it's closest to his actual aesthetic and worldview.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Agree with that... and today-though without a doubt it's not at all what they intended while making it-you can find interesting and relevant political/social subtext in their music.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump has been saying aloud "I fixed the border" and that's what R's hear.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Without a doubt their eponymous debut is the most underrated album of the'80s and feels shockingly current and alive even today.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Sincerely, The American Association of Cardiac Surgeons.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Didn't you know that when police fire tear gas at you it's your patriotic duty to just stand there and take it.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I asked an LLM about that, noting that it's incentived by the token model to produce lengthy responses. Let's just say it got defensive...
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Sir, on a separate point, did your staff and cabinet ever consciously try to ape your own words and mannerisms like Trump's do? It's one of the low-key most unnerving parts of watching this farce play out.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
The second act showstopper is "Don't Forget to Duxelles!'
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Rhodesian Finback.
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David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. I'm surprised more literary academics aren't focusing on his work. His short stories, too, are remarkable - "War Fever" has stayed with me for nearly 40 years.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
How did they know my ex-wife's nickname for me?
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I believe in the potential of AI, but after spending the day today in a frustrating back and forth with Claude around code that generates original-sounding synthesis from the answers to 10 basic questions, that faith has been tempered a bit... let alone AGI.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Along with Damnatio Memoriae. Delete his name and works.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social)
@nathantankus.bsky.social declares something to be an immutable truth, insults someone who respectfully disagrees in good faith, and then blocks them from engaging. Classy. I'll try to remember him for his good investigative work around the Treasury payment system and forget that he's a jerk.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Allah Only Knows What I'd Bomb Without You...
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David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Sir, I was wrong thinking that Cuomo support was under-reflected in polls, because I applied 2016-2024 general election logic to a primary. Mamdani has room to grow with independents, if he makes some visible overtures to the business community. Also, why WOULDN'T AOC challenge Schumer now?
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a vewwy gweat fwend in Wome called Biggus Dickus!
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
His cousin Florence, who has lived with the Lovelady family since her parents died of influenza, is bedridden with polio and spends her nights writing short stories even as she and Dicky date whisper about the future.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
He's Elmer J. Fudd, President, he owns a White House and a yacht.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
I still find subtleties in MC even after multiple viewings. Just an astounding screenplay. TWBB alternates wildly between scene-chewing and somnambulance.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Muuurrrrph!
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. They're instead laying the groundwork for a suspension of habeus corpus for deportation.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
The maneuvering is around suspending habeus corpus for the deportation drive. One attack and it'll happen.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Why did MAGA get the works? That's nobody's business but the Young Turks.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
My ex-wife and I watched "Before Midnight" while on a last-ditch let's-save-the-marriage getaway weekend. Poor choice.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Sir, have you been in touch with Prime Minister Meir about today's events? Perhaps the two of you can jointly offer counsel on the best path forward.
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David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Molly, I think the WH has designs of disrupting, if not outright denying, the LA World Cup hosting next year and the Olympics in 2028.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Good review and agree that MacFarlane's writing has become increasingly difficult to digest as he disappears into his own soul. It's why I still like "The Old Ways," which had a wonderful economy and practicality to the writing while still connecting to the spiritual.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
The Bad News Bears had two terrible sequels, a terrible TV series and a terrible remake, so I think that wins the reverse-EGOT.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
This was a core Lee Atwater principle - go after your opponents' strengths, not weakness.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Lee Atwater knew enough to go right at an opponents political strength.
David Berger (@davidberger.bsky.social) reply parent
Sir, I believe the WH has designs on disrupting, if not outright denying, L.A.'s World Cup next year and the Olympics in '28.