Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test

Headspinning

They keep saying that boots on the ground is on the table, and one way or another we really need some new metaphors

This whole thread is a tragedy.

Priam not going to back down.

Stop hectoring me!

That's not true. But Gandalf fought Durin's Bane, a Balrog of Morgoth, from the Bridge of Khazad-dum, up the Endless Stair to the peak of Zirakzigil until Darkness took him and he strayed out of thought and time and wandered far on roads that he will not tell to avoid an interview with Chotiner.

That’s not true. But Achilles sat out most of the tenth year of the Trojan War to avoid an interview with Chotiner.

Dire Straits indeed!

Why a Democratic Congressman Is Supporting Trump’s War with Iran Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East.

Yes.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

icarus would’ve survived if he wasn’t trying to get away from a chotiner interview

As a Classics professional, I can verify this is 100% true!

Chotiner: How long did you stay with Calypso?
Odysseus: Seven years
Chotiner: As her prisoner?
Odysseus: Yes. I was bewitched.
Chotiner: And another year with Circe?
Odysseus: It's complicated.

How about the Linguistics department? They're all talk.

We'd be outnumbered.

Architect and barber supply salesman

A new Chotiner interview means I get to repost this.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

"Resentment is a Passion, implanted by Nature for the Preservation of the Individual."

- Diary of John Adams, March 4, 1776.

Adams was our preeminent Founding Hater.

There is always money for war.

Billy Yank & Johnny Reb Letters For the past sixteen years following my retirement, I have dedicated myself to the transcription of letters—encompassing thousands of Civil War era correspondence and diaries that have remained unp…

Some of the most engrossing 19th century prose I know of can be found on a website run by a retiree who has spent the last 16 years transcribing thousands of letters, almost all of them in private hands, written by Civil War soldiers. billyyankjohnnyreb.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/l... #19thCentury

The Alexandria Forum The Alexandria Forum, through scholarly research and community-driven approaches, explores historical topics related to Alexandria.

I'm scheduled to talk about slave sales on the Alexandria Market Square during the 18th century at the Alexandria Forum on March 21. Several other historians also presenting on Revolutionary Era topics!

www.alexandriava.gov/historic-ale...

US troops who died in Iran war remembered as devoted parents and soldiers Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

College students and Republicans are both worried about midterms

Right now Jasmine's best hope comes from keeping down the margins in Bexar County we literally have another Crockett making their last stand at the Alamo

Is 5 blocks in the first half a lot?

Yemen, it is.

Ok. That is funny