Hey Chicago, April 5 at the Daley Center! We're creating the mirror image of Anatole France's adage, "No snowflake in an avalanche feels responsible." Bury the traitors in Spring snow.

1/. Olga, patron saint of Kyiv
Olga was born to Viking parents in Pskov, northern Russia, around the turn of the 10th century. She married Prince Igor young and may have been only 20 when the Drevlians, a neighbouring tribe, rose up against his rule and murdered him.

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@bkevenides.bsky.social Counselor, what's the use of bike cam footage in court/insurance action?
How good does the image have to be?
Can it be used to show how close a pass was?
We all see those posts from British riders who show a close pass and get the driver in trouble.
See you in the street.

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social please let Chris be wrong with the voice of Will Ferrell in Austin Powers, after he’s been dumped into the flames. His off mic voice saying I’m still alive, but I’m rather badly burned.
And this is my second try to inject ‘fake it till you break it.’

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social I scored once with "Do you have to work so brown?" So I'm gonna see if I can get another quip on your show.
Trump, et al., "Fake it til you break it."

Trump has never read [insert anything here] but he's using Machiavelli's recommendation for a prince taking power. If you need to kill people and you have favors to dispense, kill them immediately and dole out the favors slowly.
He's fuzzy on the question, "Is it better to be loved or feared?"

@stephaniemiller.bsky.social "Sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here." That's the line from a trailer for "As Good As It Gets." Close, but no happy ending.

1/4 Time tames rakes
Jack Donne, cynical womanizer becomes John Donne, ornament of Christian apology.

2/4 Enea Sylvio Piccolomini, not completely dissolute but still wild enough to sleep around write erotica, becomes Pius II.

3/4 Is it the waning of testosterone; maybe the kind of late-blooming enlightenment that makes the Torah readable after forty, but dangerous before; or just the silting of great rivers of heedless energy?

4/4Comes now Pete Hegseth, drunk and rutting. His change of life wasn’t a moral struggle. He didn’t have to hit bottom. He just had to be a weekend host on Fox. There, like Lana Turner, he was plucked from the hair and makeup chair to run the most powerful army in history.

Elon is the cicisbeo in the marriage of Mr Vance and Mrs Trump. He is Don's gallant and, said in loud whispers, her lover. Elon is everything JD can't hope to be: vivacious, ferocious, flighty and giggling rich.

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