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BrickHorn

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  1. “God has blessed Texas” has to be the most tone-deaf closing statement I could possibly imagine.
  2. This asskissing is fucking sickening. Have some goddamned self-respect.
  3. What clued you in? The Governor and a congressman showing up wearing shirts embroidered with their names? The performative disaster declaration signings? Or the prop cowboys lined up behind these fucking clowns?
  4. Cornyn looks like Igor woke him up and dragged him out of his coffin for this press conference.
  5. I’m glad to hear that his priority is saving Texans and Americans. That was an important, useful point and I’m glad he spent time saying it.
  6. I wouldn’t expect to learn much from these grandstanding gasbags.
  7. I don’t know why, but the retainers line got me. The idea that a kid fleeing for her life would think about her responsibilities, probably worried that losing a couple hundred dollars worth of plastic would upset her parents. It’s just… holy shit.
  8. A lot of streets in north central Austin are half-flooded. Shoal Creek is running like a motherfucker right now.
  9. Damn. Sequin is usually so sparkly and shiny.
  10. Damn. So sorry to hear that, man. A close friend of ours also lost a student in this. Fucking heartbreaking.
  11. What a coincidence. My nephew was also involved in a junta that set up camps.
  12. BrickHorn

    Led Zeppelin

    I fucking love that song. Outside of LZ and LZII, it’s the best blues-inspired song they recorded. But I’d lump it in with Bring it on Home (another favorite of mine) as a hybrid. The front half is heavy, reverb soaked blues, but the original parts are pure rock. The first two albums include some straight up blues arrangements, just with a harder edge. Lemon Song, You Shook Me, and How Many More Times are good examples.
  13. Exactly. They don’t even bother with the trickle down voodoo shit anymore. It’s just “Fuck you, this is mine.” You have to at least admire the honesty of the current generation of Republican class warriors.
  14. At its core, religion is a group identity based on its adherents’ collective willingness to believe a particular pile of made-up bullshit. It creates an inherent Us vs. Them dichotomy. And because abandoning any commitment to logic and empirical evidence is a prerequisite, the religious are uniquely manipulable. Laughably childish concepts like “Because God said so” are accepted as legitimate justifications for a lot of fucked up shit. Couple that with pressure or even rules requiring blind faith, and religion is a recipe for bloodshed and general strife. Tl;dr: getting people to bond over mutual belief in fairy tales is dangerous shit.
  15. You could have just said “religion is inherently fucked.” Because that’s the truth of the matter.
  16. BrickHorn

    Led Zeppelin

    Huh. The early days are what I find fascinating. The British Blues scene was an incubator for so much amazing music. Led Zep, The Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, Clapton, Jeff Beck, the Yardbirds, Van Morrison… they all started as young limeys obsessed with American blues, R&B, and rock ‘n roll. And they all matured in different directions to create a sizeable chunk of what many of us grew up with as “classic rock.” Plus, the first two albums are by far my favorites. They include the best examples of British Blues ever recorded, the perfect reinterpretation of blues standards with a harder, fuzzier edge to them. (John Mayall with Clapton and then Green is a close second.)
  17. Okay, so according to the New 3-Day Rule, Israel has never hurt a Palestinian in the West Bank. Sure, it meant to. But it accidentally hurt an Israeli instead. I don’t see why y'all think this whole Israel-Palestine thing is such a big deal. In the grand 3-day scheme of things, it’s really not that bad at all.
  18. Man, some of y'all fall for the stupidest fucking propaganda.
  19. You’re also the same guy who, for fucking years, carried GOP water like a loyal Reaganist soldier on these boards. But you’re smart and you eventually saw the light once you took a breath and actually thought about things. I trust you’ll eventually do the same on this issue, too.
  20. Holy shit, what an obnoxiously terrible take.
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