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David Pottel
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Just a middle-aged guy in the Boston suburbs.

Grain-fed skeets since September’23
Bondi on the Epstein investigations that Trump demanded: "We're not gonna say anything else on that because now it is a pending investigation in SDNY"
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I think it’s the most likely scenario. Then (as you say elsewhere) he’ll ad hoc and bully his way through the lava raining down.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Is there American gridiron football being played on a Tuesday?!?

God intended the weekly rotation to be:

Thursday - High school JV
Friday night lights - HS varsity
Saturday - College
Sunday - Pro
Monday - Pro premier matchup
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
First appeared in papers 40 years ago today
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I mean, the one Jerry posted is trying too hard and therefore looks bad, and probably is bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It is now!
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We had a dog named Fenway. Always loved that name.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
That alt text is 🔥
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The other option is that the DOJ has opened an investigation (only against the Dems, of course) so they’ll claim they can’t release anything because it’s material to the ongoing probe.
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This the one. Kind of ruined a good song for me.
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Patrick Henry was a real one.
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
He says he’ll step back from public commitments but continue teaching. I’d be amazed if it’s beyond this semester.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/17/m...
‘Ashamed’: Larry Summers to step back from public commitments amid criticism over Epstein ties - The Boston Globe
Summers, a former Harvard University president, said he regretted his association with the investor who moved in rarefied circles with heads of state, titans of industry, and stars of academia.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
FWIW (not much), this annoyance also happens with Edge on Windows 11.

Particularly annoying when you have multiple consulting gigs and a profile set up for each. And you have corresponding email profiles in Outlook, but clicking an email link is a roulette wheel of which browser profile it opens in
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Or (Shakespearen), cognitive baselines he believes are IQ tests
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Jack Lynch gets it!
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This was last night, though?
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM