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We’ve got to bring back the United States Postal Savings System
We’ve got to bring back the United States Postal Savings System
If only the rest of the US could have made it as explicit as Vermont did:
No person ought, or of right can be compelled, to attend any religious worship, or erect, or support any place of worship, or maintain any minister, contrary to the dictates of his conscience.
–Vermont Constitution, Article 3
I like that Romero is bypassing LRG
Is there something wrong with LRG that we should know?
“Drenched from head to toe in the blood of your opponent, you stand over their crumpled body.”
“Sweet! I loot the corpse. What do you I find?”
“A small note: ‘Note to self: get cure for horrible blood plague.’”
“…fuck.”
I’ve been meaning to try that game where you play a hole that gets bigger by devouring everything.
Asteroids are nature’s way of asking “How’s that space program coming along?”
Never listened to OA, but Strict Scrutiny is one I listen to for Supreme Court news and analysis.
Why would the first three make sense, but not Mighty Mouse?
Look at the last handful of democratic presidential losses to see this in action:
Gore gets nominated due to familiarity. He has the charisma of a warm sponge. He loses (barely, and not the popular vote; by the way, FUCK the electoral college) to George W. “I’d have a beer with him and hey wasn’t his dad president?” Bush.
Kerry somehow rises to the top of the next democratic primary, a fact that I will never understand, because he also has the charisma of a warm sponge. Bush is familiar and a wartime president. He is re-elected in defiance of God and nature.
Obama comes along and is a once in a generation political talent. Things are pretty good for a while.
Hillary enters the primary and wins mainly based on name recognition. She presents herself as having the charisma of a warm sponge, when we all know full well that she has the charisma of a wood chipper, and since we’re pretty good at detecting artifice she loses.
In 2019 we’ve got a pretty good set of primary choices, but Biden gets into the ring and that’s pretty much fucking it, because, again, he has name recognition, so he blows past some better, younger choices and manages to leverage his name and Trump’s fuck-ups enough to win.
The pattern is that name recognition will get you a real long way, especially with low information voters, and that is a real goddamn problem when there are objectively better options who aren’t as famous.
So anyway, I think we need a constitutional amendment forbidding members of one’s immediate family from running for president after one has been president. No sons, daughters, husbands, wives, etc. Fuck dynasties. Fucking fundamentally un-American.
/r/vexillology is one of the only things I miss from the other site.
This is the way.
Don’t forget:
Conservatives heard Stephen Colbert say “Reality has a liberal bias” and concluded that the only solution was to declare war on reality.
New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products…
Me: Yo, what the fuck is going on in Colorado?
containing toxic “forever chemicals”
Me: Oh, that makes sense.
I was trying to watch the original Nosferatu but the version I was watching had dogshit Casio keyboard accompaniment. I muted it and had Spotify put on a playlist based on “Danse Macabre.” Much better. That said, a proper silent movie with live accompaniment is fucking fantastic. I saw Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall that way and loved it.
Proverbs 28:27
Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.
versus
Matthew 6:6
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
But they can’t be expected to actually pay attention to their own scripture.
Virtually anything with a Newberry Medal is highly likely to have a traumatizing beloved character death somewhere in it. Maniac Magee and Bridge to Terabithia were good examples from my childhood.
It’s been a process.
I made myself a mnemonic: WICK.
It stands for Wallet, Information device (phone), Cup (I have a habit of leaving my cup of coffee places), Keys.
It’s very helpful to stand at my front door think “WICK” and know, not just think, I’ve got all of my essentials.