Obligatory podcast recommendation: Behind the Bastards did a two-part episode on the popularization of adoption, and how the modern adoption industry was basically created whole cloth by stealing children from their parents.
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My favorite LotR adaptation was always the BBC radio verson. Ian Holm was Frodo in that; when he was announced as Bilbo in the movies I couldn’t have been more pleased. You defined the Lord of the Rings, for me, Mr. Holm. See you in the West.
Oh jeez, yeah, your entire second paragraph there is spot on. I work with a couple of women from Thailand, both of whom are married to police officers. Through them I’ve come to realize that quite a few of the local cops, in our and nearby towns, are married to women from southeast Asia. Like, not all or most, but a…
Oh jeez, yeah, your entire second paragraph there is spot on. I work with a couple of women from Thailand, both of whom are married to police officers. Through them I’ve come to realize that quite a few of the local cops, in our and nearby towns, are married to women from southeast Asia. Like, not all or most, but a…
Oh jeez, yeah, your entire second paragraph there is spot on. I work with a couple of women from Thailand, both of whom are married to police officers. Through them I’ve come to realize that quite a few of the local cops, in our and nearby towns, are married to women from southeast Asia. Like, not all or most, but a…
Oh jeez, yeah, your entire second paragraph there is spot on. I work with a couple of women from Thailand, both of whom are married to police officers. Through them I’ve come to realize that quite a few of the local cops, in our and nearby towns, are married to women from southeast Asia. Like, not all or most, but a…
Nice try, Herb, but you will not get me to click over to the reanimated corpse of Deadspin. Re-enable comments and take your punches, coward.
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She knows if she gets us up against the virus, we can attack its weak point for massive damage.
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Our carbon gods, you say?
Beyond that, with any loud-n-proud Trumpist, there’s a chance he’s not racist, there’s a chance he’s not misogynist, there’s a chance he’s not homophobic, there’s a chance he’s not xenophobic, there’s a chance he’s not uneducated, there’s a chance he’s not proudly ignorant, there’s a chance he’s not flat-out…
Don’t worry! Give it a day or two, and I’m sure QAnon will have a perfectly sound, grounded and reasonable explanation for the full quotes. Probably something about ‘globalists’.
Streisand Effect. The Good Squire Tayloe don’t have any fuckin’ choice, now. Excelsior!
Holy shit. Brother Jed?! I remember him coming to my campus and setting up his little hate-spewing circle out on the quad once or twice. I can’t imagine anyone actually taking the good Brother seriously. Students pretty much showed up just to jeer.
“a vain and vicious and relentlessly exploitive nullity.”
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This is the problem with these grinding multi-year campaign cycles. We are still over a year out from the election, but everyone just wants this bullshit over with. I worry about voter fatigue.
Always, and forever.
It doesn’t help that Stallman is basically seen as a demigod by a certain type of comp sci nerd. This isn’t going to end well.