Mitch Modine

He didn’t get out of the cockadoodie car

Incels are already a lot, but chess incels are on another level entirely

If you speak both German and English (as I do), you know that Vienna sausages are wiener Wieners

It’s really not that hard

I don’t drink and I don’t recommend other people do so either, but some biblically-asture home brewer really should create Tiglath Pilsner III.

Thune is too much to ask for, probably, but maybe Adam Schiff?

The harvest is plenty but the workers are few, because ICE raided the place last week

You mean Vance used his cushion

A flower never blooms late, Frodo Baggins. Nor does it bloom early. It blooms precisely when it means to!

So I am learning Vietnamese with the green owl. Today I didn’t know how to translate sth and looked it up on GoogTrans but I told it to translate V to German.

Cheating Y/N/Who Cares?

Important reminder: the tax collector in the parable did not pray:

Of all the things that I could be,
Thank God I’m not a Pharisee

#humility #SidewaysLectionary

By refusing to work with Democrats, Republicans are willing to DOUBLE the health care costs for millions of people.

It’s shameful.

Seen on FB (not OC):

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

1 can read

1 can write

1 can keep an eye on them dangerous intelleckshuals

Conclusion: they screwed us because they confused the ideal with the real

If you asked them about SCOTUS AJs serving for 30 years they would say gtfoh but in a snotty 18tu century aristocrat sort of way

The FFs couldn’t conceive of a Mitch McConnell serving into his 80s, Chuck Grassley into his 90s, Strom Thurmond to gd 100, and Dianne Feinstein being herded away from microphones right up until ahe died

Also life expectancy was <40 so while they had old folx, some perhaps into their 80s and 90s, these were rare exceptions

The “Founding Fathers” didn’t put term limits for POTUS, Congress, and SCOTUS because they naïvely assumed that virtuous*people would naturally give up power when it was time.

*white, male, landowning

Intolerance to criticism or examination of any kind, and refusal to consider that any of the criticism might be true is a hallmark of antisocial personality disorders.

Just sayin’.

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10/19 Movie rental store in a movie

Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) Last Action Hero (dir. John McTiernan, 1993)

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10/18 A political hearing in a movie

Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) defends her experience of space flight before Congress

Contact (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1997)

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10/17 Someone sentenced to prison in a movie

Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan) and Inspector Javert (Anthony Perkins; yes THAT Anthony Perkins)

Les Miserables (dir. Glenn Jordan, 1978)

Bonus: Ian Holm (aka Peter Jackson’s OG Bilbo) as M. Thernadier

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10/16 Something raided in a movie

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (dirs. Jerry Paris and James Signorelli)

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10/15 A frog in a movie

Magnolia (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)

Chess for me is either firing on all cylinders or not knowing how the pieces move. I just blew a nine-point material lead into an insufficient material draw

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10/14 Somebody hit in the face with something not a fist

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (dirs., John Francis Daly and Jonathan Goldstein, 2023)

Forge (Hugh Grant) fails his potato in the face saving throw

Clearer shot at 2:01:00

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10/13 The White House in a movie

Photo 1: Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford)

Photo 2: WH at night, approximate time stamp 1:35:50

All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1976)

Now I know all about WA Amendment 8201 and Toyota Tundras

I absolutely love this. Show them for the clowns they are