I’ll believe it when you start using olde-times candlestick telephones to post from….

How many cammo-wearing thugs firing tear gas at civilians does the Pope have? None. That's the point.

Just because it never worked before, and the reason why is well studied, does not mean some construction company won’t get a nice fat contract to do it. Have faith!

If moving coke is part of a war, then the middlemen/recipients/buyers/users -- many American citizens -- are co-conspirators, and could be murdered at will. That's just ... the thinking of a madman.

This looks awful, but Simak wrote good stuff early on, including Way Station. He was one of the first authors that drew me to SF. (I am old.)

Bookers need to say “Are you familiar with x, y, and z? We’re looking for someone who can talk about them.” If they say yes then backpedal, play the tape. If they say no, don’t book them.

Imagine how hard the staff had to work to keep him from giving Stormy Daniels an award.

I remember reading "The Past That Would Not Die," a book about Meredith's enrollment in UM, by Walter Lord, who also wrote about the Titanic, the Battle of Midway, Dunkirk, and the Civil War. That man loved disasters -- and those who had the courage to rise above them.

Rosencrantz: I have often on been on boats murdering people.
Guildenstern: No, what you have been doing is murdering people on boats.

Where’s the soccer ball? Is this a no-ball peace prize?

Please let it be “stairs to replace ramps in all parking garages so we can pretend every trip to the mall is a chase scene from The Italian Job.”

Makes sense. I myself have already passed away dozens of times just from seeing pictures of cocaine in the news.

Not how an RPG works. Paging Isaac Newton.

RepublicanT

When I lived in Arlington, VA in the '90s there were a ton of Vietnamese and Afghan restaurants, and I always told people "once they were exfiltrated, and their CIA paychecks dried up, they had to find something to do...." (I was speculating. I had no knowledge of any such cryptoculinary schemes...)

Not all heroes eat grapes

He's the cartoon version of Ryan Styles -- an animated lizard who does short-form improv. I think.

White on democracy:
It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in don’t shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles … It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, … of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere…

Did I work my way through college getting paid to weather and wear books for wannabe book displayers, giving their tomes that well-studied, oft-consulted look? No. Another genius idea 40 years too late.