“I don’t see how the Republican party or the cause of conservatism can claim the moral high ground any longer.”
Super-duper right right right redstate.com
“We are…the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall, we are writing today to ask for the removal of his statue.”
“Germany certainly has not forgotten anything: There’s just a recognition that remembering and memorializing are two different things.”
A very right-leaning site and byline in case that isn’t clear.
I’m beginning to think we may have picked the wrong president.
I recently finished Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Lincoln biography and am currently reading Ronald White’s biography of Grant. I’ve also been watching Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary in the evenings. It is pretty surreal to have had my head steeped in this stuff for the last few weeks and then pull up the news.
I have no point. Just felt like sharing.
Bravo.
[ed: The original article has moved behind a paywall, so I updated the link to point to archive.org instead.]
Reposting this because it seemed worth revisiting.
“We can not do this. We can’t go backward. We can’t go backward.”
Wuuuuuuuuuuut….
Me: We’ll think about it for a while and then we’ll decide.
Sophia: Ugh. I HATE how patient you and mom are sometimes.
Question for English nerds:
1: It was one of the Jennifer’s birthday that day.
OR
2: It was one of the Jennifers’ birthday that day.
OR
3: It was one of the Jennifers’ birthdays that day.
We’re safe for a while longer.
Maybe you think millennials created all our problems but we created millennials so…
As I understand things, the president has to have memorized launch codes to unilaterally initiate a nuclear strike. I rest a little easier knowing there’s no way trump remembers those codes.
Sophia had to make up a riddle for Humanities class as part of their Beowulf section. I think she did pretty great. Let’s see who can solve it!
Two caves at the base of a hill, Further on, a larger one still. On either side, a sight to see. What must this hill be?
What if a horse whisperer was just a guy who walked around whispering “hoooorse” all the time. That would be creepy. 🐴
One of my favorite passages in Cormac McCarthy’s All The Pretty Horses comes about three quarters of the way through…
The hero has been through hell and he’s about to find out if it was all worth it. In some sense everything in the book has been pointing to what is about to happen.
Things I said when teaching Isabel to drive that I don’t say as much to Sophia: “Assert your right of way. Get out there.”
Things I say to Sophia more: “Whoa…ease up baby driver.”
Do you think trump thinks a “grand” jury is like a regular jury but for one percenters?
It’s nice to know that if I ever do die in a flash flood, my iPhone will buzz a lot to comfort me as I go… 🌊📱🌊
This is super cool. If I grok this fully, these folks are listening to music, audio books, and phone calls without any actual sound waves involved. Just Encoded Digital Audio → Bluetooth LTA → Implant → Cochlea → Nerve → Brain. We are living in the future…
Ahh yes, I remember fondly that time I was plotting treason with a foreign national, got caught, and my dear ol’ papa helped me craft my misleading statement. Just dad stuff.
[ed: This article has been moved behind a paywall so I’ve updated the link to point to archive.org.]
I tried to explain the concept of fast/good/cheap to Sophia and she just shrugged and said, “food trucks are fast and good and cheap.”
I love how republican strategists are calling for Kelly to reign in the White House staff and bring discipline as if the the discipline problem isn’t with trump himself. By all means reign in the staff that works for the poop-hurling monkey.
If only the BSA could have had any inkling that trump might say something inappropriate. But of course there’s no way you could guess a thing like that. Now that they know, maybe next time they’ll … uh … be prepared.
Today’s “news”:
A stranger just walked up to me at this airport restaurant and asked me if the food was good enough for her to eat here.
Lady I don’t need that kind of pressure on a Friday night.
On this day 48 years ago we put a man on the moon.
And then we forgot how to do it.
All the love in the world to John McCain and family. You are a true American hero, and have given so much to the state of Arizona. We are with you in this fight 100%.
I saw Baby Driver last night and, while it maybe got a little lost in the last third, overall it was crazy good. I haven’t had this much fun at the movies since Run Lola Run. I’m not a movie buff but to me it was just completely original, crystal clear in its vision and wildly precise in the execution of that vision. Like nothing I’ve ever seen before. A+
At last our long national nightmare is over.
Wait. What!?
No. I just mean Southwest found my bag.
When I go back to work after vacation my hands always revert to typing older versions of all my passwords for a while. It’s annoying.
I kind of wish the media would stop printing this stuff until after hearings so Trump people would have a chance to perjure themselves.
