Everything posted by Ghost of LL
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The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
- The Supremes
I have that book on my office bookshelf. But I have removed the dust jacket for precisely that reason. It is a great book, though, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. I may have to go re-read it at some point. Nah--fuck that. I'm afraid I'm going to live it soon enough.- The Supremes
I mean, say what you will about the Nazis, but they didn't appropriate the tricolor of the Weimar Republic or steal the flag of the German Empire. Fuck no--they went out and created their own flag with its own design. Which, admittedly, they lifted the Hindus. But still . . . . I wish our Nazis would make up their own fucking symbol and leave the good Revolutionary flags for those of us who actually support the country the Revolution founded. I obviously feel seen.- The Supremes
As someone who is fascinated by flags, I'm totally here for these scandals of a vexilological nature.- 2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
This is 100% true. But the real irony is that they're winners in the present order of things. Tear down the federal government, and they're likely not to be in nearly as good shape as they are today. They'll be poorer, less safe, and less healthy. But they don't get that at all. An amazing paradox of Americans today is that they all think they're in the top 10% of income earners or wealth (if not the top 1%), but they all feel aggrieved by the "system." It's just a really weird dynamic that has developed over the past twenty years.- Brexit shenanigans
British democracy--and democracy worldwide, to be honest--really are on the decline, aren't they?- Brexit shenanigans
If you don't go out to see the canvasing results for Uxbridge and South Ruislip to witness firsthand how Lord Buckethead performs, well . . . you're just not the Penelope Witherspoon I thought I knew and admired.- Brexit shenanigans
General election set for July 4. The Tories are about to get buttfucked.- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
Fuck no--the high temperature in Edmonton next week is probably still in the low 20s. Yeah, it was. That sheet was amazing. That's one thing I hate about the "modern" NHL. The NHL I grew up watching had little idiosyncrasies about each barn. Edmonton had its high-speed ice. Boston and San Jose had their tiny ice surfaces. The Igloo had a retractable roof for some reason. I mean, fuck--the ice at Reunion would famously melt this time of year. Now everything's all standardized. And I suppose that's good from a competition standpoint. But it's just kind of boring.- The 2024 Quest for Lord Stanley's Cup - general NHL playoffs discussion thread
This is a 1-0 ass kicking.- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
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Hockey justice has been served.- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
Had to win that fucker twice!- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
MacKinnon looks a lot slower the last couple shifts.- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
That starts with Seguin’s indirect pass, and that’s just dead sexy.- Abbott being Abbott
As if you’re not going to be asking to use my season tickets.- Abbott being Abbott
Agree completely. They want to turn this into a resource-extraction colony of Eastern capital akin to Wyoming and West Virginia. And for my part, I’m kinda already there, mentally. Mrs.LL is from New York, and that’s where we’re retiring to. I’m a sixth-generation Texan—my family arrived here shortly after the Past Unpleasantness Between the States—but I’ve already started regarding myself as an New Yorker in waiting. I’m just here long enough to extract my share of the state’s wealth before getting the fuck out.- Abbott being Abbott
I was just at a professional conference here in Austin. Talked to a couple of people who are retiring. Talked to a few others about their retirement plans. Talked to many others about their kids and their plans. All of them are outside Texas. i don’t think people are prepared for the serious brain drain this state is going to suffer over the next decade.- The Japan Thread
October 1 on the Silver Nova? Oooooh--fancy. This . . . is really sound advice. I hadn't really thought through the difference between Japan and, say, Rome or Paris. But your thoughts mirror my own.- Official Thread for Abortion Demagoguery
Rhode Island was founded when the Massachusetts dickheads went full dickhead and expelled Roger Williams over his religious and political beliefs. Among other unforgivables--and the Pilgrim dickheads had a long list of things that were unforgivable--he argued that the Massachusetts Bay Charter was unlawful because the Crown had not legally purchased the land from the Native Americans. So Williams established Rhode Island, one of the founding principles of which was toleration of religious diversity. So Rhode Island was kind of a buffer zone between the Dutch of New Netherland and the Pilgrim dickheads in Massachusetts. By pedigree, the Rhode Islanders were themselves dickheads. But often they had been expelled because they either were too big of dickheads or too little. And Massachusetts wanted only those who would be just the right amount of dickheadishness. Even so, it was more closely aligned with Massachusetts than with New York in the Revolution and in subsequent interregional disputes.- Official Thread for Abortion Demagoguery
It actually adds some depth to the New York-Boston antipathy. The Pilgrims were dicks who got kicked out of the Netherlands because they were dicks. So they went to Massachusetts, which was right near by New Netherland. And the New Netherland Dutch didn't like those dicks any more than the Dutch in the old Netherlands. Because just like old Netherlands, New Netherland was a cosmopolitan society built on commerce. And commerce requires tolerance of things like religious diversity. So when the English conquered New Netherland, the Dutch were very "fuck that." The last thing they wanted was to be under the thumb of those Pilgrim dickheads. Because among other reasons, puritanical dickheadishness is bad for business. So the New Netherland Dutch negotiated a pretty favorable surrender by which the Dutch retain their freedoms, including freedom of religion. The Massachusetts dickheads didn't support that compromise, and have always had a different culture from New York. That Pilgrim dickheadishness made another appearance in the late 1760s, with their general freakout over the Quebec Act after the French and Indian War. The Quebec Act allowed for freedom of religion in Quebec, which is to say that the Catholics in Quebec got to stay Catholic. And the dickheads didn't like that. And the role of the Quebec Act in straining relations between Massachusetts/Boston and the Crown is understated in the lead up to the American Revolution. Boston's opposition to religious toleration, and New York's fear of falling under Boston's Pilgrim-dickhead tyrannical rule is a key reason why New York was pretty fucking Loyalist during the Revolution. And you can trace that mutual antipathy down through American history clear through to today. And fuck the Red Sox.- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
Things can change, obvs. But this series just isn’t all that competitive.- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
I actually didn’t have a problem with that call. It was in the crease, and Benn didn’t do much to avoid the contact.- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
That’s the call you make in this game?- The Dallas Stars 2024 Playoffs Thread
So much for cross-checks being a point of emphasis. - The Supremes
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