Sheesh, that bag though

Please send it to her!!

No sour cabbage in “the meal” for us—but that was on regular rotation at other times

Cope’s is the best!!

A lot of PA Dutch ancestors here. Potato bread filling (not stuffing) is a treasure (and a pain in the neck since it’s hard to get the bread stale enough in the PNW)

Death by flag—missed that headline.

Many, many Americans have a very hard time understanding words. By which I mean actual words disappear or become unimportant so that various fantasies can persist unchallenged. Where race is involved, the tendency becomes overwhelming.

All of which is a long way of saying, yup. That surely happens.

I include myself in the bait-taking

So proud of my city, which often takes the bait.

But what’s not missing is killer balance with that weight

The Pips line was especially unruly this week. Too many September birthday folks wanting their free donuts.

Pretending to be serious is so much easier. (I mean, come ON. CY’s statement is so profoundly dumb that it requires a whole new metric of dumbness to account for it.)

He needs to stop with the RC pol theorists at Nôtre Dame and Catholic, and spend some serious time with Augustine. If he wants to be a better Catholic. That this isn’t his aim is likely true.

Here for all the obscure Thomism. Esp any refs to obscure US Thomism!

Plebiscites for all

So excited to watch!!!!!!!

I would have that movie on repeat in a flash!

That’s great—thank you. The full citation is “The Tyrannical Style of American Politics,” American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon (Oxford UP, 2023), 69-104. Although my formatting is surely off some!

Love the hat