Beautiful writing, as always, Andrew.
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Beautiful writing, as always, Andrew.
I have a Q&A up today on the Washington Unbound website. www.washington-unbound.com/interviews/e...
It is painful.
And the doctor in "Good Lovin'" who says, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."
That's not the actual choice, though. There is a Republican in office now who is brutalizing whole classes of people. Not voting--assuming we even have a legitimate electon in 2028--will only perpetuate that brutalization.
But doesn't the "save the cat" moment have to be at least somewhat plausible?
The Road to Mordor.
A king of shreds and patches.
From the transcript: ICE Agent: Those mayonnaise stains are deadly, I tell ya. Deadly.
They could shorten it to Centers for Disease.
It's aggressively ugly.
In this version, there is no Cordelia.
Mr. President, if I may...Slurp, slurp, slurp.
These lackeys are also nude.
The sprayed matter would become a new fetish object for his worshippers, like the fake ear bandages.
Only one party currently has National Guard troops occupying DC and is threatening to do the same to other cities.
Same.
I think he can seep under the door like a noxious gas.
Do you know what a non sequitur is? Your post is a good example of one.
This is exactly what Adam Schiff warned against in his speech at the conclusion of the first impeachment trial.
Many don't see the difference because they take functional government--the rule of law, clean air and water, vaccines, free expression--for granted, and do not see that we are losing all of that.
There is a world of difference between deeply flawed but democratic governance, which we had until January of this year, and authoritarian, kleptocratic rule, which we live under now. DC would not be occupied by goons if Haris had won.
These idiots don't know the difference between parody and mimicry.
That's where the swastika and the inverted red triangles find common ground.
The racism in the film is so overt and grotesque that it negates the art. Viewing it, I felt a visceral disgust.
The way to get his attention is by using all caps, giving him a derogatory nickname that someone whose emotional and intellectual development ended in 7th grade would find clever and funny, and ending with, "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
I hope not. My wife and I live in a townhouse.
Ironically, back in the 1990s, I saw an exhibit on what the Nazis deemed "degenerate art" at one of the Smithsonian Museums.
I was worried about something like that happening to me before my partial corneal transplant. I said to my wife, "What would you do if I got corneal cells from a sociopath and began seeing the world through a sociopath's eyes and behaving like one?"
Wait until you get to the editing stage.
If Harris had won, DC would not be subjected to a hostile occupation, as it is now. That's just one of the legions of differences between the two parties.
Who are you to decide who's a real Jew?
I was more struck by how limited his vocabulary is.
And that when he alters the representation of the path of a hurricane on a map with a Sharpie, the hurricane accordingly changes its path.
There are three reasons I can see for their canceling it. 1. The survey will show that morale is in the toilet. 2. The response rate would be embarrassingly low because people fear retaliation. 3. They don't care what federal employees think.
He's one of my favorite painters. I love his self-portrait in the Rijksmuseum. He seems to look out at his viewers with an expression that says, "Who let this rifraff in here?"
Millions of Americans will buy them.
I have not. Nor have I considered the possibility that the earth is flat or that the sun rises in the west.
Perfect! It captures the horror and grossness of Trump II.
Thoughts and prayers for Big Balls.
Why am I not getting paid when I fill my prescriptions?
A few weeks ago.
Yes. I just saw that painting a drew weeks ago at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
As long as AI can circle back going forward, no one will miss the consultants.
I thought the worm filled that one.
I would say that she should be disbarred, but who would dare get between her and the bar?
We have all the authenticity in the White House that you can ask for--an authentic madman. The stakes in the election should have been clear to anyone who lived through his first term
I hate to be the one to tell you, but...
She was running for vice president six months before her nomination under President Biden's platform
And you alter reality with a Sharpie.
He never reached the object permanence stage of cognitive development.
Or putzes when we're not being nice.
I hope you realize that from now on, he will be barking for a second dinner every night.
That's a beautiful cover.
It's also perfectly normal--in a dictatorship.
I hear that Frederick Douglas is doing great things with batteries. Many people are saying.
American murderers first!
For half a second, I thought that "his in ring stuff was incredibly boring" was a comment about the Ring Cycle.
The Executioner's Song.
I don't trust a language mechanic who doesn't know where the parts should go.
I think it will be mostly prepositions.
And for a hundred other reasons.
If they recolonized us, we would only have a figurehead monarch, and we would be better off.
Mine,from a student essay: "You might think I'm too particulate."
There was a time, not that long ago, though it seems like forever, when federal officials used to communicate with the public in a restrained, professional manner.
It's also really obnoxious in a middle-school way. It has become routine for government spokespeople to issue statements full of juvenile insults.
Many are elderly and/or disabled in long-term care.
A great World War I movie is Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion.
Which is good for fertilizer.
And then, when the savings are gone, Medicaid pays the nursing home. Most long-term care patients end up on Medicaid. I wish more people knew that.
That would include a lot of disabled nursing home patients.
When I was in Little League, I only had one multiple RBI game. I drove in my first run when I walked with the bases loaded and my second when I got hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. I earned that second one. It hurt.
The title of the musical would be America, Party!
The anchors would have to do some preparation in order to ask intelligent follow-up questions. I guess that's expecting too much.
In order to push back, they would have to be sufficiently prepared for the interview to counter the inevitable lies and evasions. There is nothing in that clip to suggest any preparation on her part.
My wife gets confused with those forms, too. She's from Kenya, and she is Black, but somehow, not an authentic "African American," according to some.
It feels to me like the birthday I had that fell on the day after my father's funeral.
They're certainly being overly optimistic in their estimation of the likelihood of canine compliance.
It is hard to believe, but this is our reality now.
I struggled mightily not to rob that bank, and in principle, it shouldn't have been robbed, but what are you gonna do?
Me, too. My wife is a naturalized citizen from Kenya.
So close. Maybe it will happen someday.
In any administration prior to the one that began on 1/20/2017, this would have been a major scandal, and she would have had to resign at the very least.
I would join.
Where they were wrong was in thinking one had to grow up to be president.
I visited nine years ago and am still haunted. I remember a chart showing the badges worn by different categories of prisoners and where they ranked in the camp hierarchy. I was struck by how much planning went into making that place a hell on earth.
Neutered.
Especially him.
Cold, too.
I have had some of those, too
He was a felon, but at least he had some manners.
Yes.
Ten thousand cuts over 60 years.
I think the caption could use an em dash: "Cheerful pic of me--and the offspring on the day of her graduation."
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the futire.--"Fly Like an Eagle," Steve Miller band
When we watched it, my wife said, "They must have fired all the writers before those last two episodes."
For most people, that's not hard.
No, you were not wrong. I see it as more or less the same as waving a swastika flag, which, of course, is illegal in Germany.
That's what houses do.
That's what I used to wonder when I worked for a regulatory agency and had to respond to public comments.