Dr. Jimbosaur, Esq.

Speed Racer is about an uncompromising artist refusing to play by the corrupt rules of a studio system that reduces his art to a cold, inhuman line-go-up calculation. Speed both winning AND exposing/destroying the bad guy in the end is very transparent wish-fulfilment by the Wachowskis.

The Gale family would almost certainly have come to KS in the same wave of Anglo-Congregationalist settlement that brought John Brown and his family to Lawrence, KS from MA, which means she's saying something VERY specific with "Christian woman" that does NOT allow for gradations, as you said.

LOL. The number of zip codes anywhere in this country, rural, urban, or anything in between, where a sensible person could expect to leave copper pipes sitting unsecured in the back of a parked pickup and still have them there when they get back can be counted on one hand.

I remember shortly after lockdowns ended, there was a bunch of conservative influencers who made videos going around "downtown DC" late at night, filming the 99% empty streets and saying that "proved Biden and crime had killed DC nightlife." They were on CT Ave, near Farragut Sq.

Nah, that would require them viewing the people who live in DC (Black, Federal employees, or Black Federal employees) as their Fellow Americans, or even human.

Hell, Dem staffer Seth Rich got murdered and the GOP reaction was to spin up fantasies of a Dem conspiracy.

"Yes, I think you could say I'm an Accelerationist." [slams pedal to the floor, immediately veers into a light post]

Bertucci's (specifically the original version with a bocce court in the basement). Fresh brick-oven pizza and baked pasta dishes on demand. The 'beetus would kill me in a year, but what a year!

Unfortunately, there's still plenty of people who will watch Harry Potter. But it's also entirely possible that an audience big enough to justify the *enormous* amount of money this thing is going to cost (especially after the actors' 2nd contracts, if it's a hit) just doesn't exist.

It's basically dumb luck that we have a pretty good collection of electeds in Massachusetts. Okay Governor, good Senators, good Mayor of Boston. The House delegation runs the gamut from "best Dems (McGovern, Pressley)" to "badly sub-par Dems (Moulton, Neal)," but we don't have any of the *worst.*

I know everyone's fixated on Gary Brooks and righteously dunking on Black Mold Voldemort, but let us be clear: Michael Jordan left to play baseball because he got caught gambling on sports and David Stern needed to give him a multi-year suspension without creating a scandal.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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It's a big part of the reason I can't tolerate any Dems who voluntarily work with Lis Smith. Second only to her work discrediting sexual abuse victims on behalf of Andrew Cuomo.

black and white still from Rafter Romance (1933) showing a drawing of Ginger Rogers in a jaunty and stylish cap and jacket, smiling pleasantly, surrounded by a horseshoe of sausage tied up with string, which does in fact look extremely phallic on both ends.

For the curious:

It just looks fundamentally wrong to see Johnny in *that* uniform with *that* haircut. They famously were dicks about it and made him cut the hair!

Notice the jump here from "stolen" to "copyright violation." Suddenly we've gone from talking about a broad, philosophical objection to the use of other people's art without consent in training a for-profit LLM to a very narrow (and novel, given newness of current LLMs) question of copyright law.

He's playing to the Fox News crowd with the "Chicago is a scary Black city run by stupid Black politicians"-card, in the hopes that he'll siphon off some of the white racist vote that would otherwise be going to Curtis Sliwa.

Lots of people don't!

Wild what Trump did to the Lincoln Bedroom...

I hope someone opens an anti-woke, MAGA Pierogi stand on the Vineyard, Dersh makes a big show about going there instead, and the pierogis are garbage. Just absolute dogshit. Doughy, bland, underfilled.

There's definitely a version of it that happens on electoral campaigns, especially Federal, where people who worked closely together are suddenly at each other's throats because they're a) without a unifying cause and b) competing for limited post-campaign career-advancing jobs (win or lose).

The fact that it's the same band that wrote the lyric "Some people call me Maurice / 'cause I speak of the pompatus [sic] of love" is extra special icing on the cake.

He NEEDS a chunk of the NYC white racist vote to realize Sliwa doesn't have a chance and break for him to have any shot, so he's banging the Fox News-branded "Chicago's the scary Black city with stupid Black leaders" drum. Probably won't work, since those voters think he's a lib "mask + vax tyrant."

Setting aside the fact that he seems to think Chicago was a more prominent city than NYC before the Erie Canal was built (historically insane), it's also clear that the only thing he knows about Chicago is that attacking it is a good way to court the racist vote that might otherwise go to Sliwa.

But... but... the aesthetics of a mid-late 80s suburban shopping mall are nostalgic to me! That means the show is saying it's good!

Usually with a brief stopover in Roman Catholicism, then Byzantine Rite Catholicism, THEN they make the jump to Orthodoxy, where they can more easily ignore it when the hierarchy says/does something "woke."

When the level of heresy in question is "explicitly and publicly denouncing John 3:16," I'm pretty sure you don't even get a trial.

What do these TERFs imagine would be creepier, a guy walking into the aisle, grabbing the tampons off the shelf and going on with his day, or a man loitering at the end of the aisle, staring at the shoppers, waiting for his chance to strike (buy tampons for his wife/gf)?

I know I, personally, spend a lot of time dunking on these guys, but that first one is almost heartbreaking in how much this tech has completely ruined him. Altman and the rest of these cretins have so much to answer for.

He famously thought he was going to make a comeback! He left to avoid being barred from holding Federal office, *because he intended to hold Federal office again!* If he hadn't dropped the now-John-Roberts-approved "If the President does it, that means it's not illegal." he might've pulled it off!