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Need some advice on how to handle a college-educated [sic?] employee with work experience who doesn't understand basic grammar concepts. Is sending a draft back with actual red pen edits too much? I get that Gen Z is a little more casual with grammar d/t texting. This, though, is 😱😱😱

Sports commentators saying that a team "controls its own destiny" really grinds my gears. YOU CAN'T CONTROL DESTINY! Destiny is, by definition, predetermined.

AI doing a good job summarizing the podcast.

Frozen sap

Book Review- Julian Against the Apostates

I recently finished M. David Litwa's Julian Against the Apostates: A Translation and Reconstruction of Julian's Against the Galileans. I picked this up on Audible before pausing (and soon to be canceling) my subscription there. If you can find this on…

Podcast update -
Almost done with the next book review. Episodes for March and April (which deal with the Levant and The First Millennium respectively) are recorded. Just need to be edited. We have a new guest and a return guest.
Movie review episodes to follow those.

NJ Legislators introduce "F-CK ICE" legislation As of now with just two sponsors, the just-introduced Bill A4446 is summarized as follows: Establishes "Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act"; permits civil action...

Gotta love NJ.
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'Barely' invited? The POTUS is a f-cking toddler. Which is an insult to toddlers.

If you need something to do this weekend, why not listen to the latest episode of the podcast? It's another movie from me and Victor. We discuss Pompeii and explain why Kit Harrington's agent knew nothing when he signed Harrington up for this one.

Muppet Fellas.

Getting some decent traction with this episode. Give it a listen if you haven't already. It's a fun discussion about a movie that explodes with action at the end.

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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

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YouTube video by Bull City Coordinators Sidequest 30 - Pompeii is an Explosion of Slop

Kiefer Sutherland. Kit Harrington. Jared Harris. Carrie-Anne Moss. A volcano. This movie should have blown up the box office. But it didn't. Listen and find out why.
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YouTube video by Bull City Coordinators Sidequest 30 - Pompeii is an Explosion of Slop

Me and Victor review 2014's Pompeii. Despite an outstanding cast, this movie is [insert volcano pun here]. It's not good.
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Added a link to @profgalloway.com's website on my site in addition to the below. Resist and Unsubscribe, folks!

Just being real - the Clone Troopers executing the droids who help Ashoka and Rex escape is the saddest part of the entire Clone Wars series. That gets me every time I watch it.

YouTube video by Bull City Coordinators Sidequest 30 - Pompeii is an Explosion of Slop

Listen on YouTube
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Sidequest 30 – Pompeii is an Explosion of Slop In this episode, me and Victor test my wife’s theory that a volcano exploding makes a movie better by reviewing 2014’s Pompeii. TLDL – this movie was pretty awful. However, the vo…

What better way to spend Sunday than by listening to me and Victor talk about the explosion of AI slop that is the movie Pompeii. Great cast. Great historical moment. Terrible plot. But an awesome explosion. What did we rank the movie? Listen to find out.
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Sidequest 30 – Pompeii is an Explosion of Slop

In this episode, me and Victor test my wife's theory that a volcano exploding makes a movie better by reviewing 2014's Pompeii. TLDL - this movie was pretty awful. However, the volcano exploding did improve what was otherwise a flaming pile of…

Resist and Unsubscribe

Paused Audible and will cancel when I finish the books in my library. Joined Libro fm.
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SCOTUS just granted cert on this. (I mean, probably.)

New episode drops tomorrow!!!

New episode drops on Sunday!!!

Trump administration says it is ending its immigration surge in Minnesota More than 4,000 undocumented immigrants have been apprehended since the operation began in November, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Keep up the political pressure. Don't be afraid of good trouble. And don't believe the DHS numbers or story about what happened in MN.
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