Mark Roddy

What idiotic proposals are you pushing this time?

Well that is a problem, but that is not why Congress has done nothing.

Um - it’s utterly useless. It doesn’t need replacing, it needs disposal.

You cannot reform a goon squad.

We might have failed at democracy. Democracy is a concept, not an entity.

I’ll take a guess that 2/3 of the House Senate and States was a bit of a barrier.

You are doing great work Rep Thomas. The people have your back. We can do this!

Met with ACLU lawyer yesterday. We have some new leads to look into. Information that needs to be requested and legal challenges that will be considered.

Leavitt says NH needs an ICE prison in Merrimack.

We say NO.

The Waterford greenway was a delightful ride. Well the second half was drenching cold rain and hypothermic, but no cars trying to murder us.

The garment tried to resist but they made short work of it.

Just don’t buy new tech. What you have is fine.

Been thinking about this since around 1967. ‘Hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today’.

Here we are nearly 60 years later.

Top right: Kalypso ΚΡΥΠΤΩ (2012). An assemblage sculpture depicting the goddess Calypso from the Odyssey. The sculpture consists of a colander painted in various patterns mounted vertically above a Primus stove sitting on a wooden plinth. Top right: A photograph of a Primus 96 camping stove. Below: A photograph of an aluminium colander with black handles.

Top right: Kalypso ΚΡΥΠΤΩ (2012). An assemblage sculpture depicting the goddess Calypso from the Odyssey. The sculpture consists of a colander painted in various patterns mounted vertically above a Primus stove sitting on a wooden plinth. Top right: A photograph of a Primus 96 camping stove. Below: A photograph of an aluminium colander with black handles.

Mycenaean disk depicting an octopus with spiraling tentacles, c. 1600-1500 BCE. Gold. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Homeric similes are often characterized by comparisons of wholly dissimilar things (a kind of discordia concors). While the nexus in discordant similes appears ‘trivial’, a complex conceptual abstraction emerges upon analysis to illuminate themes of particular significance to the epic as a whole.

Why is it that only the Democratic Party has to appeal to these ‘swing voters’? The other party keeps getting more extreme right wing.

They learned nothing.

The party leaders are stuck in the 90s. Ideologically they cannot accept that the neoliberal system has failed. They despise their left wing, their base, so they can only court the right to win elections.

The population is very engaged with their corporate controlled screens. The problem is a bit more complicated than apathy.

Pepitas are my favorite mixin. I might have to try the everything seasoning.

Is this the part where the royal goes to the tower while the executioner sharpens his blade?

The evolution of mass media over the last 120 years or so, coupled with the evolution of persuasion techniques (advertising) has brought us here. Huge segments of the global population are enthralled by their screens and manipulated by the owners of media production.

This is going all over the country. A gulag is being constructed. Long term detention of deportees is an oxymoron. Wake up!

Netanyahu has approved the plan.

Anyone can code sober.

The veneration of the ancient charter of a clearly failed system is part of the problem.

There is some evidence that increased CO2 levels decrease human intelligence.

The sister in law of his sister in law, obviously.

Mamdani policy proposals are social democratic, centrist, just barely left, nowhere close to ‘extremely far left’.

It is possible that Matty is disgusted with himself for constantly gooning on trans porn and attempts to atone by promoting the erasure of trans people.

Oh yglesias. Never mind.

Better to ask what a dollar is worth, and then discover that value is just turtles all the way down.