Is the classic movie Airplane! now problematic?
“The 69 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1999″. I probably know more of these songs than I can recognize just from the titles.
“Better to have a few rats than to be one“.
“NASA is planning to blast New Mexico chile pepper plants out of the Earth’s atmosphere in March 2020 and grow the fruiting blooms on the International Space Station. Researchers hope it will lead to improved meals for astronauts, as well as a deeper understanding of how to someday grow food on the moon and Mars.”
“But not until I made the biggest mistake of my professional life could I really relate.”
“It’s more accurate to say Trump’s racism and narcissism are both facets of his desire to rule like a feudal lord. If we see Trump as a would-be baron or an aspiring king, then his varied reaction to people of color makes sense: He loves those who pledge loyalty to him and hates those who defy him in any way.”
More than you wanted to know about Alan Dershowitz.
Feral hogs are now a European problem, too.
Some details about that Capital One data theft.
Shooting Bullets At Asteroids is the name of my next album.
RIP, Nick Buoniconti, Hall of Fame linebacker for the Miami Dolphins.
Donald Trump? Never heard of him.
“In this scenario, these goobs just latched onto Denhollander because she’s an outspoken woman and therefore must, in their view, be Bad, and they chose to make her their emblem of demonic opposition to their One True Faith without having any clue as to who she is or what she’s done because, as a rule, they never ever listen to the substance of what any outspoken woman is actually saying and because their stunted, carefully curated media diet does not include Time or Sports Illustrated or legitimate news sources of any kind and the tiny epistemic bubble of Fox/Breitbart/Christian talk radio they rely on never covered the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal and it apparently only registers in their little misogynist reptile stimulus-response mechanism brains as having something to do with #MeToo and therefore with feminism and therefore with the worst and scariest threat they can imagine. And that is the best possible explanation for this.”
“Nationally, hate crimes have been rising across most groups in recent years after bottoming in 2014″.
“This Senate inaction brings to mind Albert Einstein’s infamous definition of insanity as repeating the same behavior but expecting a different outcome. With no beefing up of election defenses and high odds of continuing foreign interference, 2020 will likely see the same problems of 2016: campaigns that sow discontent and play on societal divisions, active efforts to undermine electoral legitimacy, and widespread public doubts following the campaign about the integrity of the election process itself. Americans will wake up on Wednesday, November 4, 2020 wondering how the U.S. electoral process again fell prey to foreign interference and why political leaders failed to defend our vital democratic processes.”
“We have a gun problem. We have a white supremacy problem. They are increasingly intertwined, and we need to respond to each of them legislatively and culturally, without fear or intimidation.”
One thing that hopefully WILL come from the recent tragedies in El Paso and Ohio is that maybe people turn down the rhetoric just a bit, on all sides. We just saw a microcosm of that here, and I apologize to Kuff and the whole gang for participating in it.
Having said that, I’m disappointed with Joaquin Castro, for doxxing folks in San Antonio.
https://twitter.com/Castro4Congress/status/1158576680182718464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
I want Trump to dial it back, but I also want others to dial it back too. Doxxing the other side’s supporters is probably not a good idea right now. Fundraising off the deaths of innocent people is also in very poor taste.
Meanwhile from the Trump campaign
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/08/06/el-paso-shooting-trump-campaign-facebook-ads-talk-immigrant-invasion/1929471001/
Wonder who else uses that word “Invasion”?
It looks like those were ads paid for and run in February of this year, but are listed as inactive. But I agree Manny, in the current climate, I’d prefer that Trump not air those ads going forward.
It’s obviously still a valid topic, but I would hope that all sides cool down the rhetoric.
I would encourage Trump not to use that particular ad again.
Let him know
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