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The Andrew formerly known as Prince.

A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?

"If the problems are not addressed, probably with a nine-figure renovation, the building could eventually become uninhabitable or endanger pedestrians below, the engineers said."

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Are you making book on this being the Pulitzer-winning news photograph of the year?

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He was Ann Coulter, but prettier.

Texas Democrats to Leave State to Block G.O.P. From Redrawing Political Map

They could go to the Trek convention in Vegas, this week. Just starting.

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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

The composer has a solid case. It is easy to pull up both pieces on youtube, and the first 15 second of each makes it clear: the "John 1" piece is derivative and the tune and how the words are used are from the earlier "The Word Was God" piece.

That they both use John 1:1 is irrelevant.

Well, that explains the Cybertruck.

Giovani is a stunning achievement because of its ambition, even if the story is craven and evil. Carmen is a bag of diamonds and rubies and emeralds, that never seems to empty. Tosca is a study in storytelling, like E.T. or Les Miserables.

MAGA is so upset about the new Pope, you’d think they’d just watched someone give food to a starving child.

You can get excellent photos of a pissed-off museum curator if you use a strong flash on the camera.

There was some application on the other end, that received the email and farmed out the answers to people who'd offered to respond. The answers would be sent out, voted upon, and a winner would be the response. You were always told what the payment for the advice was, at the end of the missive.

WHAT did we do without the internet, with only email?
Well, there was the Internet Oracle. You sent it a question, and it answered appropriately.
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In fact, there was some application on the other end, that received the email and farmed out the answers to people who'd offered to respond.

Jury Rules Against Palin in Libel Case Against The New York Times (Gift Article) After two hours of deliberation, a jury rejected Sarah Palin’s claim that she had been defamed in the newspaper’s 2017 editorial.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

You can see the SNL sketch. A cottage industry springs up: watching movies for celebrities. It's like writing college essays for rich teenagers, but better pay. Same morals. They brag, I've seen the new Brad Pitt movie 67-1/2 times. That 1/2 was at the Roxie. The butter on their popcorn was racid!

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

What's all this chatter about taking Greenwich and making it part of the US?

You might think we'd at least try for Liverpool or York. But ... Greenwich?

I remember writing to his daughter, who ran the Newman's Organics part of the world. One of the snack-level items was so incredible and so addicting that I felt the need to tell her why I had to buy their other products instead. Oh, it was like cocaine for those of us with meager budgets.

But the two 12-inches provide more crust.
Circumference = Pi * D

So 18-inch pizza has Pi * 18 inches of crust:
Pi * (3 * 6) inches. Roughly 56 inches of crust.

But two 12-inch pizzas have 2 * Pi * 12 inches of crust:
2 * Pi * (2 * 6) inches. Roughly 75 inches of crust.

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke - The Day the Money Stopped - BBC Sounds Alistair Cooke recalls the day in 1933 when every bank in America shut.

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That includes the Supreme Court cases in the 20th century that tell us that the First Amendment (llus the 14th) bind state governments also.

Every university should respond with a mandatory First Amendment seminar taught by the state supreme court justices of the state. The point should be, entirely, that the First Amendment prohibits the government (any part of it) from stopping basic communication and feedback amongst the population.

The graphic is very high quality.

The content presents the trends of their own NY Times columnists, and those in this thread are pissed that DEI and Trans issues aren't taken seriously by those columnists.

Somebody did not deliver for Putin today.

YouTube video by theblindchick Michelle Gomez - Hildegard von Bingen

Oh, I did not expect to find this. No, it’s not blasphemous. Well, not that much.

It’s a comedy bit. You’ll want to have the audio on the good speakers.

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