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We could use something like this nowadays.

60 years ago LBJ signed the Voting Rights act of 1965.

This was really pivotal legislation before the Roberts Court gutted it.

He usually does.

I’d be satisfied with 220 in the House and 60 in the Senate.

Damn!

I don't know about that… look at who they vote for.

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One of my favorite bits of trivia is that the phrase "Don't Mess with Texas" originated in a 1985 anti-littering campaign.

People think it's really tough-sounding, but it came out of the fact that the Texas Department of Transportation needed to remind bubba to pick up after himself.

I was rooting for Claudia Schiffer.

#Badfinger belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And if your religion is non-proselytizing?

At which point everyone goes dead silent.

Mostly, because they didn’t know that… and they think I'm out of my web-slinging mind.

But a very, very few (like Batman, of course) *DO* know… and Superman Does Not Like To Talk About That.

That's when I woke up, saving myself from further humiliation.

Then again, what would anyone say to Superman that wouldn't be totally lame and fannish?

But, I’m definitely me, because I say in response to that joke, “Well… one of Superman’s powers is shooting duplicates of himself out of his fingers!”

(Which is true, by the way… look it up…)

Someone jokes that if we’re going to be talking about copies of superheroes, Superman’s stories alone will keep us there for days… and there he is: Superman.

So this is a crossover event. Cool.

I'm dumbstruck and don’t know what to say to him: I guess I’m Peter Parker, after all?

So, it turns out that there has been a spate of imposters impersonating superheroes, some of whom have powers, and I’m invited to attend a gathering of superheroes to formulate a response.

I’m a bit ambivalent about this, but I’m peer-pressured by some of the Avengers, so there I am.

I guess I really was Spider-Man because I use Spider-Man powers to stop him.

But through it all, I’m thinking “I am not really Spider-Man”, but I have all his abilities… and besides, what is more Spider-Man than having Imposter Syndrome?

Facebook memories resurfaced this #Superman / #Spider-Man dream.

I’m wandering around in a mask, and I realize it’s not just a mask, but a full-fledged Spider-Man uniform.

After walking around & folks nodding at me with amusement, I see someone ELSE in a Spider-Man costume clearly mugging a guy.

You guys seemed to be having a blast.
Paul Wesley slew me.

Pink Floyd got there first.

Montage of: a dog running in a field (whippet), Superman, the Beatles, Star Trek's original cast, the Fellowship from The Lord of the Rings.

There are a handful of things that gave me joy and lifted my spirits when I was a child that continue to give me joy and lift my spirits as an adult.

What are those things for you?

#whippet #superman #beatles #startrek #lotr

Wait… the Silver Surfer was Ruth Langmore?!?

Asked and answered:

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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

And their base keeps falling for it. Every. Single. Time.

He continued to be booed by outraged folk music purists at concerts, foreign and domestic, for quite a while.

Bob Dylan playing a Fender electric guitar and harmonica at Newport.

On this date 60 years ago: Bob Dylan was booed at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival for 'going electric'.

Setlist:
Maggie's Farm (premiered)
Like a Rolling Stone (premiered)
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (premiered)

Encore:
Mr. Tambourine Man
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

I want the iPhone 17 to be able to tell me when my avocado is ripe.

(And now is when y'all say that Android has been doing this for years.)

It only took six months for Donald Trump to create a climate of fear of political violence. Here in the United States of America.

I overheard this last night at a concert from an elderly couple sitting behind me…

He: [talking about future plans…]
She: "Unless Trump tanks the economy."
He (angry): "We've talked about this. We mustn't talk about politics in public. I've made that clear. We don't know who may be listening."

Yeah, that'll disincentivize corruption. 😏