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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. 2 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    They have to be unanimous on guilty or not guilty.  If there are varied manners and means by which the crime can be committed, they may not have to be unanimous as to how he committed it (depending on the charges in question).  

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  2. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee  by Caey Cep (2019) (Audio)

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    I was really impressed with this book.  It goes off in different directions and is sort of like four different long New Yorker articles all mashed together.  But the writing is so swift and spare that the story just moves along.  It's just a good read/listen.

    The idea of her publishers pushing for To Kill a Mockingbird over her finishing Go Set a Watchman - set years after To Kill a Mockingbird with an older and more problematic Atticus is something I never knew of but is a perfect reflection of the race politics of our own time. 

     

  3. Oh yes... Coldman. The "d" is silent in America. It's Cole D'Isle au Man, or Cole of the Isle of Man, in France, where the kid's  chateau is, Cold-e-man in Greece where Papa Coleman's work is, and finally the vulgar Coleman in Texas where the home is is.

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  4. 6 minutes ago, pacman said:

    I was thinking about this today, sitting in a traditional Greek restaurant. They had Fox news on their one TV. I recalled the hotel also had Fox. Then, I try to remember a public place with the news on that wasn't playing Fox.

    I'm not saying you need to pick up your game in terms of restaurants and hotels but have you recently been compelled to go into low company?

     

  5. 1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Same for a lot of works.  Even re-reading Cormac McCarthy, looks way different now in my twilight years, than it did in my late 20s....

    Good old man books:

    The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler (not sure why this is one of my favorite books - just very old school style story, but the way he looks back on his life was very affecting)

    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Cormac McCarthy (no way she was 23 - pure southern gothic, lots of sad wisdom)

    Train Dreams - Denis Johnson (this was frighteningly depressing - novella)

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  6. Finally saw it.  Underwhelmed on the whole.  Loved the family dynamic.  Ended with about 3/4 of the story I wanted to see still left.

    I guess I get the irony of the stupidity of the white literary types as part of the theme of the movie but it could have been lots funnier/interesting if they had been given just a bit of intelligence.

  7. Well what's your issue then?  Is it because he's unknown or he's running the wrong kind of campaign.  I mean, I'd see some advantages to him being an actor or a rock star with instant name recognition, but the Dems don't have the balls to do that.

    I just don't see any advantage in him pretending he's a firebrand progressive, because he isn't, and that's not going to be a big advantage over him just being himself.  

  8. 24 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    That strategy isn’t going to work statewide. 

    I think there is a decent argument that no strategy for any Dem is going to work statewide but a low key one for a black athlete is better than most.

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