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Mole

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  1. Sorvino, Milano, lets call the whole thing off.
  2. This is this board’s Alyssa Milano ice cream cone thread with the added fun that a sizable number of posters think that she’ll be by later tonight with a gallon of tutti frutti. Any good story needs a certain amount of suspension of disbelief or you’ll miss the fun. I’m ready for the Twitter Nostradamus posting only Seinfeld gifs to lead me to the Urban Meyer promised land.
  3. It’s all corruption vs. communism/Jeremiah Wright/Anti-military preachers right now.
  4. Pluralizing data is the minimum I expect from someone calling themself Dr.
  5. Honestly, this past month alone probably qualifies him for worst president ever. This past month has been the 2000 Pedro Martinez of bad presidencies.
  6. If you don’t have time to listen to all of his symphonies, this is a little more time efficient: It’s surprisingly listenable, although you mostly just hear 3, 5, and 9. Someone did a Haydn version that sounds like Ligeti.
  7. I force myself to keep up with musical trends so I don’t get calcified ears. I tried listening to her new album but found it really boring. It’s really well executed, but I thought it was painfully uninteresting.
  8. A very short and incomplete list of movements by Beethoven that move me right now: Symphony no. 6, last movement — it sounds new to my ears even today; a pretty straightforward sonata-rondo form with nice horn fifths to make the A theme; it always reminds me of a Henry Mancini 80s TV theme song, like the Newhart show’s theme song but not at all Symphony no. 3, 1st movement — so much drama in one note (c#); just one tense note and you have a whole movement String Quartet no. 14, 1st movement — fugues, man; I’m not crying, you’re crying GroßeFuge — more fugues, man; Beethoven was a time traveler from the future apparently, Schoenberg before there was Schoenberg and much more listenable and enjoyable; still challenging enough for our lazy ears
  9. I’m adding investment purses to my portfolio to diversify my current collection of Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Dolls, and baseball card gum. Financial independence here I come!
  10. Remember the Maine.
  11. Someone posted the showboating that went on in 2000 in one of these threads. It looks like the same will happen on 1/6 — sound and fury, signifying nothing. Nothing new under the sun.
  12. Yep. Documented proof of Michigan voter fraud right there. Checkmate Democrat party. DO SOMETHING!!
  13. All of them.
  14. I think the legal term of art is firstsies, as articulated in the landmark 1952 SC decision, Shotgun vs. Girlfriend.
  15. It’s obviously biased towards the winners as far as the status quo goes, but every writer (not to mention every historical person) has a perspective, which is just the more positive side of bias. The 1619 Project is biased, or it has a perspective worth exploring. The Trump patriot response has a perspective, or it’s biased. Some highly biased materials have great educational value; some less biased materials are garbage; everything has a perspective, even if it’s just the inherent bias of the status quo. We need to do a better job of reading and learning about perspectives and bias in a way that gives a rich understanding of the world. Bias is a reality, not the problem. How we deal with it is the problem. As to religion in schools, my middle school was very religiously diverse, with adherents to all of the major world religions and then some. We learned about various religions in class with kids adding their own personal experience. We sang Christmas carols, Hanukkah songs, etc. We participated in each other’s religious and nonreligious lives. It was a very humanizing way to learn about beliefs. It absolutely wouldn’t work in many communities, but it was a great way to learn. Be honest, how many of those discussions were on Zoom calls with Bill Gates and Fauci? You can’t fool me. I’ve seen Strange Brew like 50 times.
  16. I’m not sure that biased info is necessarily quite the problem. The problem is more in learning how to deal with bias. The answer isn’t the triangulation/syncretism that has become so popular (the truth doesn’t have to be in the middle). If you’re talking about education, history, for example, is on some level a study of the bias of each author. This can be rejected for “Patriotic Education”,accepted as some kind of historical solipsism, or it can serve to provide a rich and nuanced understanding of history. The same goes for any other subject. Beyond the surface level in any field or subject, bias is inevitable, but we’ve collectively done a terrible job of handling and understanding that bias. Of course, like winning, it’s actually really, really hard.
  17. No snark, moderate Christians need to condemn Christian terrorism.
  18. Even still, they need to take it as one tiny model of leadership.
  19. “We can’t sanctify idolatry by labeling a leader our Cyrus. We need no Cyrus. We have a king. His name is Jesus.” Good line. I think it’s called parler.
  20. The right thing would be to impeach him again. Doing so is also probably a huge politics loser, just like the president. It just feeds into the delusion that this “massive fraud” is being covered up. The wise play is probably to let the presidential tantrum burn itself out. You don’t get out of this situation without damage either way.
  21. 1. Donald Trump’s America 2. The DT thread is pretty quiet. I guess that means that this is a protest and not a riot. 3. The flag desecration capes are a nice touch.
  22. I know spelling and all, but every time I hear the term, I can only think of: It’s an uncanny resemblance really.
  23. Keep the Urban Meyer thread out of here.
  24. I’m late to this show but: 1. good for you in putting up with the parents for the sake of the kids 2. fundamentals and fun are key 3. you should teach the kids at least one play. It’ll be fun for them to signal and run and even more fun for you to watch. You could probably use it as a means to teach more fundamentals as well.
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