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Mole

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  1. So the kid might literally have a million dollar smile?
  2. July is almost over; August seems a bit early for the electronic apocalypse - it’s too hot for tat anyway; September is when all the school kids start really spreading COVID and killing their teachers (no CR); November is already reserved for the civil war after the election (again, no CR); and December has the asteroid scheduled. It looks like we’ll have to pencil in the Chinese EMP attack for October, unless the creepy clown video trend comes back for Halloween. At that point we’d be overbooked. I guess we could move the EMP to concurrently with the civil war, but I really need twitter and Facebook to keep myself angry. Otherwise, why have a civil war anyway?
  3. The speculation about the sounds of the volleys seems to ignore this point. The two volleys clearly sound very different, but a lot changes between the volleys. For the first shots, the cameraman is taking footage of the streets, and the mic seems to be unobstructed and generally pointed towards the action or at least not covered. For the second group of shots, he’s hiding behind something with the mic pointed towards him and there’s even a reasonable change that the mic is obstructed or covered by part of his hand or clothing. Even without an obstruction, there’s lots of soft things for the sound to bounce off of and a big difference in mic placement. If you’ve ever watched a sound guy work, changing the placement can have dramatic results. Unless there’s other videos with sound that I missed, in which case, never mind.
  4. How long until that’s illegal?
  5. Salman Rushdie is one of my favorite authors. I might not have started reading him had Iran not announced that The Satanic Verses was so good that they wanted to kill him. So I guess I can thank Khomeini for being a wonder advocate for the arts. Likewise, I would have likely never checked out the 1619 essay without all of this. So thank you modern GOP for advocating for scholarship like Khomeini.
  6. I support telling kids across the country that this curriculum is banned and they absolutely should not read it. Seriously, don’t read it. It’s banned, offensive, and you shouldn’t look at it. Also, you can easily access it via your phone.
  7. Rakes might work for corralling rolling tear gas canisters.
  8. That sounds a little like the Montessori model, which I’ve heard is excellent.
  9. Username checks out. I have a hard time imagining things being any darker with pretty much any other possible president. In this scenario, the pandemic would have been at least marginally addressed.
  10. I’ve thought about how to point out what’s been stolen from us - very precious family time - without being cruel. Maybe with real leadership we still might not have been able to visit this summer, but it sure would have improved the odds. At some point prior to November, I think it will be good to explicitly point out the obvious, but it’s delicate due to the personal nature of having their life shut down. The lonely and painful death of this thing is a pretty terrifying prospect.
  11. Like many of us, my parents turned from reasonable, thoughtful, caring, educated people to getting their opinions from Tucker. They didn’t go full cult and start flying Trump flags, but they had a Trump sign during election time and started ranting about all the socialists. It was surprising at the time, but Fox is insidious. My family is somewhat scattered across the country, so my parents haven’t played with their grandchildren in about 6 months. Visits were canceled due to our new world. It sucks for everyone. They’ve essentially been locked in their house and yard. They stopped going to church since no one will wear a mask because America. Unwelcome at church due to Christian hospitality. Unwillingness to be mildly inconvenienced for our brothers has become a Christian identity. My dad emailed me recently expressing some disdain for his worthless R governor failing to allow them some sort of outside life with universal mask wearing. No widespread mask usage means endless lockdown. I commiserated complaining about my even worse R governor and of course the absence of national leadership. They’re stuck waiting on a vaccine since that’s our last hope. A mentor of mine that my parents knew well died of it. That really opened their eyes. My dad knew my mentor’s dad well when I was younger. Seeing your friend lose his son can shake you. Parents shouldn’t have to bury their children. This stuff has stolen what should have been a wonderful time from my parents and it’s getting hard to ignore. Most of the issues we get worked up over are theoretical to most of us, even the ones that really deeply matter. This isn’t theoretical and it’s damaged all of us. I don’t know how they plan to vote this fall, but I suspect that losing time with their grandchildren, losing their church community, losing their golden years, and seeing so much suffering might make that old Trump sign look pretty unappealing.
  12. I love a good reckoning and facing up to the way we dehumanize one another is a pretty good one to have.
  13. So he’s unlikely to be as good as KD.
  14. I liked to leave rambling, confused stories in the comments and would sign my reps as Grendel.
  15. On the other hand, we can all unite in laughing at the throw and it gives us something petty and meaningless to care about. It seems like a win to me. Maybe we don’t need W throwing a strike in this moment.
  16. At least we know he was hard at work on COVID and not practicing for this. Vlad Guerrero would have still swung at it.
  17. Counterpoint...
  18. This is motto-worthy.
  19. I just watched that response and it's very thoughtful and compelling. The idea that she's some kind of intellectual lightweight just doesn't hold up when listening to this or much of her other work. She might step in a hole and say something stupid from time to time, but everyone does this and much of that perception is likely due to selective editing. Pretty much anything anyone says can make them look like an idiot if it's edited and framed properly. It's hard to listen to her speak unedited and come to any conclusion other than that the Fox News framing of her is based on racism/misogyny. She's well to the left of me, but she's no doubt smart and thoughtful.
  20. Question for the law dogs: these cats who are solipsism incarnate - Gaetz and the like - is that a product of legal training or is it just self-selecting? Basically, are they born that way or is it a choice?
  21. I bet you feel a little bit foolish calling anything lame now that you know the real name.
  22. It’s kneeling during the National Anthem part 2. Take a wedge conflict that’s dying down and amp it back up to make it into a political crisis.
  23. From MAGA to MOCA. Can we get that on a hat?
  24. How’s that different than MAGA?
  25. What’s fat Jimmy Carter have to do with this?
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