holy shit the nea really canceled creative writing grants?!??

I’m more of a “quiet wheel encourages the owner to do some preventative maintenance” kind of guy.

Watching doc about Assyria and how mass deportation was used as tactic of terror, which then goes into how Stalin expelled 20+ ethnic minorities and "foreigners" and eventually just anyone labeled "enemies of the people" and sometimes living through a history book creeps up on me and makes me tired

Sign of the times: You know how the animated weather radar normally is in 10-minute increments, covering about a 2-hour period? It’s now from 8:00 am yesterday to 8:00 am today (same number of increments) with no data on it.

Which is troubling, since I just got a tornado warning alert.

A quote carved into the halls of the United States Supreme Court