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  1. Fast Times was like a documentary of my high-school experience, even if it predated those years by a few. Especially the bad shit and the Ron Johnson types getting with high school girls. Still give the edge to Breakfast Club as iconic though, and the song "Don't You Forget About Me" gives it something extra.

    Underrated one -- Heaven Help Us (Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson).  Gen X but the era depicted would be boomer. Kevin Dillon is so fucking funny in it.

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  2. Ireland allowed a vote in which the citizens chose to make it legal after a woman died under very similar circumstances as those under which Texas women are, or soon will be, dying. If there haven't been deaths here, it's just a matter of time because a lot of shit that happens during pregnancy that leads to death is not that uncommon. Perhaps publicizing a death will make a difference. But we don't get to have ballot measures like other states... so less freedom than other states.... or even Ireland. Yet the Freedom Flag Eagle Patriot bullshit myth persists. 

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  3. This guy (the victim) was a barber at the Crestview barber shop in Austin before he apparently moved to San Antonio. Gave my son his first haircut and many more thereafter. Nicest guy you could ever meet, and he and his partner were foster parents to a number of kids. 

    Weird, brutal murder.

    https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/04/27/suspect-arrested-nearly-one-year-after-man-was-found-slain-in-stone-oak-apartment-police-say/

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  4. 1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

     

     

    The analysis seems tortured to reach the obvious conclusion they want. Start with the continuous nomenclature of "unborn child" rather than a scientific or medical term. And of course it comes down to "legislation didn't specify or define every last term, so in a battle between ill/dying woman and unborn child, gotta go with the 'child" being equal or more important, i.e. no right to abortion care." Judicial activism continues to run amok.

  5. I found it irritating that the LHN guys -- Fozzy, Robison etc. -- called out the Longhorns' committing so many penalties as part of their problem, without the remotest hint about the lopsided calls/no calls. Did they not actually watch the game or are they just not allowed to say anything like that? It's our hometown crew FFS.

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  6. I am hungover AF today. My mom sits down right next to me with her People magazine and proceeds to start reading to me every single stupid thing in there. Has to comment on it all too, like who looks good for their age, who doesn't... oh and Bad Bunny and Kylie broke up. Seriously. I'm grunting mostly but also remarking here and there like "who possibly cares about those people" and she still can't read the room. Starting to think she is actually trying to piss me off on purpose. Out of here tomorrow, yay.

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  7. 15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    All true, but with that said, the Texas GOP has far better access to polling data than the general public, including social media data, and all kinds of analytics in general drilling down to where new votes are coming from, and who the new voters are, etc.

    The fact that the Texas GOP is pushing things like an in-state electoral college, that Abbott and the Republicans in the Texas Legislature want to take over Harris County elections, that in general Republicans in Texas want to make it harder to vote (limiting polling times, removing polling locations, etc.) means that they are seeing trends that have them scared shitless.

    We are all staring at census information that is extremely broad, but the Texas GOP has data showing what suburbs/towns/zipcodes could flip and when they could flip (within a 2-3 year window).

    atomheart stahp. The GOP are always scared but that's just who they are, it doesn't mean the see a damned thing encouraging for their opposition. They have power and they work to cement it forever, I don't think it's deeper than that.

  8. 2 hours ago, 4th_and_18 said:

    I was right around the corner on the same floor. Didn’t hear the shot but saw people running. The jewelry store I was in dropped their security gate very quickly. Moved us in back of store. Once the cops were outside the emergency exits they let us go out the back. Then the circus in the parking lot. People running and everyone pressing their fob to find their car. Incredibly fast response by all agencies.

    I’m back in the mall now. Taking advantage of no lines. Cop to customer ratio is 1:1 right now.

    This may be the most American post I've seen all year.

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  9. Re: Brisket -- Yeah it's fucking stupid and crazy. The court ruled against Paxton because that's the only result the law dictates. You think the CCA is bad now, wait until Paxton's candidates get in and don't know what the fuck they're doing at ALL. 

    I'd add just as an aside --while Judge Hervey is conservative, she does a shit ton of work for actual innocence projects, along with pushing legit forensic science training and education for the judiciary and bar. A net positive for the criminal justice system. 

    I really can't wait for the finding out portion of the equation for Kenny. I'm really sure now that it must be just around the corner..... 

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