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  1. This state already had law enforcement who was willing to look the other way when dozens of trucks with Trump flags surrounded and harassed a bus carrying Democratic campaign staffers. We also have counties where Republican election officials have resigned purely for fear of being assassinated by these yahoos in their own party. Now we’re signing off on *murder*!!!!! How crazy is that? I mean, we had an impartial jury of TEXANS and witnesses and a trial…. And it’s not like there’s some new DNA evidence or a whistleblower reporting prosecutorial misconduct… it’s just, “we’re gonna let the convicted murderer out because we like his politics.” … And he’s free to go to Cabelas tomorrow and buy a fucking assault rifle. Lunacy.
  2. I think this thread illustrates our idiocracy as well as any other. Every time I see it bumped, I know there’s gonna be a story or video that’s facepalm-worthy. For example: a god damn ball coach that doesn’t know anything about anything- expressing concern to the secretary of defense that we might be offending the sensibilities of the country that targets its neighbors’ civilians with missiles on pretty much a daily basis.
  3. The self-described idiot/asshole understands nuance way more than the self-professed intellectual.
  4. I was wearing a CBGB shirt in the grocery store yesterday, and an older woman exclaimed, "Oh, I loved going there!" She then asked me if I'd ever heard of the Fugs (I hadn't) and told me, "I was Tuli's girlfriend then." So I've been listening to some Fugs.
  5. Ha. I had an insurance policy on an SSL console that was about to make a cross-country trip, and I called the insurers just before it left - just to make sure everything was locked in. No response. I then fired off an email that definitely had a “tone” and probably dropped some “totally unprofessional” comments. A couple days later, a woman replied “terribly sorry for how you were inconvenienced” or something like that, and then explained that the office was like ten feet underwater. Turns out they were in New Jersey and this was a few days after Sandy. ——— “Dear Reddit: Am I the asshole…”
  6. Yeah, they make it seem like it’s some deep-in-the-jungle tropical disease, but it’s just a consequence of eating undercooked pork. You could hop on a discount flight to Cancun and get a tapeworm and a toe by 3 o’clock, dude.
  7. Man, I'm impressed and happy for you. Obviously, our stressed-out and isolated modern societies need to get back to having these shared, communal experiences. I've thought of starting something similar in the vein of storytelling - like a "Moth" radio-hour kind of thing, maybe with a musician doing 2 or 3 songs as an icebreaker opening act. Anyway, kudos to you.
  8. Apparently the laws regarding acting as an unregistered foreign agent either need much more aggressive prosecution or much longer prison sentences or both… and yes, I understand that he’s a legislator and not a lobbyist, but I’m fucking tired of seeing these stories affecting both chambers of Congress, in lobbying firms, and in the executive branch (Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, many others). There doesn’t seem to be enough deterrence from doing treasonous things. I also think presidential pardon powers need a serious overhaul - like if your friends are getting fabulously wealthy from treasonous acts, you don’t get to pardon them.
  9. Trivial things that make you surly.
  10. Wait a second. Are we talking about *practice?* We talking about PRACTICE, man. We're talking about practice. What are we doing? I'm supposed to be the franchise player, but we talking about PRACTICE?
  11. I have two Strymon pedals and they are especially thirsty for current.
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