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Mole

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  1. Eye'm just hear four the grammer smack-tok.
  2. That Miles picture tells so much of jazz history in a single look.
  3. In this conspiracy (?) world, what should google return instead of whatever it returned? Basically, if this is amazing, what would be the non-amazing result? Also, since this seems to be the appropriate place, why is it so hard to get to various league standings on ESPN.com on a computer? It’s easy on my phone, but the computer version of the website is so hard to navigate. I’ll be back with more questions as things float through my brain. This thread is a real service to our community.
  4. It’s funny to read about what seemed important before the chaos of the last year. I mean, it’s important, but so much absurd and terrible stuff has happened since then.
  5. I have an audio version read by Gilbert Godfrey that I can’t recommend.
  6. It’s been a tough year for musicians. I appreciate Ted’s entrepreneurial spirit in creating work for musicians.
  7. Motto-worthy.
  8. As opposed to do-your-own-research.
  9. For an art form that values innovation so much, there are sure a lot of cats hanging around that think jazz ended in the 1960s. It seems like most of them are writing books rather than playing music though. It’s weird, because Wynton is criticized for being backwards looking yet anything after 1970 is seen as new. It sometimes seems like there’s a very narrow window of acceptable jazz.
  10. There’s something fitting about this and Biden’s quick and apolitical response in contrast with the Republican response. So many Texans despise AOC and Biden yet they still do it because doing the right thing matters. The Republican response has been to lie and politicize this or in Ted’s case, just bail. And none of it will matter on the long run. It’s our current environment in condensed form. It’s normal, decent humanity vs. craven degeneracy.
  11. You should all be thanking Ted. When it’s so miserable, having someone so unlikable to focus your frustrations at can be cathartic. He’s given up himself as the comic book villain to take your minds off of the death and suffering that surrounds you. It’s really quite heroic and may be his greatest moment.
  12. The Babylon Bee does a good job of satirizing the foibles of conservative evangelical culture. They know it well and do a good job of making light-hearted fun. Whenever step outside their comedic comfort zone, it turns into unfunny grievance politics pretending to be comedy.
  13. He was undeniably talented and wildly influential, but the praises I’ve seen for him (and some of the criticisms) look through a very short-sighted lens. His greatest influence wasn’t any set of policies or coherent political philosophy he pushed. His greatest influence was in chipping away at a shared, objective reality. Much like Trump, whether or not you like or hate his views is somewhat beside the point. This brand of conservatism made it impossible to have any rational public discourse. Making our opinion of these types of public figures as dependent upon whether or not you agree with their end result misses more foundational issues. In fact, it buys into the destructive ideology that Rush helped to spread. When reality is subservient to ideology, we can’t actually discuss our shared reality. There’s no real political discussion if there’s no shared reality, Yes, “both sides” do it, but one side has weaponized it to cause far greater harm. The body count isn’t even close. Rush was the spiritual father to a brand of conservatism that has caused massive death and suffering. That’s not a statement about policy but a statement about values and honesty, which have far more direct impact on our lives than any good or bad policy.
  14. I’m glad the SpongeBob look is back.
  15. I grew up in the north. I remember one winter when our fridge went out, we just threw everything in the snow on the back porch. It was a little weird to put on my coat to make hot pockets, but it seemed like a pretty obvious solution.
  16. Donkey is a NowThis sock?
  17. I don’t know anything about the energy industry or have much of an understanding of this situation but I have very strong opinions that coincidentally align with my political views on a small handful of unrelated social issues. Also, all energy matters.
  18. First, that’s the most Midwestern thing I’ve ever seen. Second, I’d love for his vision of the GOP to win out, but I think the current arc of history is bending pretty hard towards madness.
  19. By the time Colt’s injury game came around, I had more or less grown out of feeling the losses so deeply for myself, but I really wanted that win for him. Watching him process his heartbreak in real time during the postgame interview was hard.
  20. There’s always the possibility that the Qs will come up with someone dumber and worse.
  21. I don’t know why they should be expected to actually filibuster when they filibuster. You saw what happened when they almost lost some of their vacation time. They aren’t all that into their jobs.
  22. The church 2nd amendment talk reminded me of the time I was invited to a wild game dinner at one of the local baptist churches. We ate all sorts of wild meat, which was cool. The there was some sort of sermon/Gospel presentation. My vague recollection is that it was some sort of strained metaphor about the meal. Then they gave away a rifle and the kid who won absentmindedly pointed the rifle at everyone there. Good times.
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