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Unlike Nuncle and Nadder and even Numpire (noumpere) though, I don't think it was originally a Nhistoric occasion.
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Unlike Nuncle and Nadder and even Numpire (noumpere) though, I don't think it was originally a Nhistoric occasion.
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Jaws, obviously. Always good to watch the Great McGinty, too. A history movie, like Blazing Saddles? An immigration saga, like Night at the Opera? I also feel like a movie about how awful the hereditary aristocracy is would be appropriate, so maybe the 1937 Prince and the Pauper with Errol Flynn?
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I also learned it today!
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americanhistory.si.edu/explore/topi...
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“One annual flagship program run by the Smithsonian, ‘Civic Season,’ offers one opportunity to achieve that. It spans the two federal holidays that embody the struggle to realize the ideals of freedom and justice for all: Juneteenth […] and Independence Day (July 4).”
www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/o...
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Now that we are getting a dozen or more really well-filmed stage productions every year, I care a lot less about what the best film adaptations are.
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Yet another story from the alleged minds of Melissa Shaner and me! This one is short and (we hope) amusing and is called "Escape Velocity". ───◆─── “Cosplay,” announced Hellebore, exasperated, as they sat down in front of the monitor. “And they’re doing it in character.”
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See also: Real estate development in Queens, Roy Cohn, etc.
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Marvin Suggs!
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A fourth story by Melissa Shaner and me—this one is a novelette, quite long and (we think) quite sad. Ask me if you would like content warnings of any kind.
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My family, particularly my wife the Art Historian, is in disagreement with me, in interesting detail.
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The vagaries of Greek and Roman influence are also tracked by art and architecture, obviously, particularly in the 19th Century.
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The Greek v Roman thing changes in different eras, for a variety of reasons, which can be more or less tracked by the use of "Democracy" v "Republic" by populist politicians. We've been increasingly Rome for 20 years or so, by my estimation. It as a lot to do with the End of Empire, imo.
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Question, though: are there a bunch of voters with strong positive associations with the Kennedy family who are not also strong Dem partisans? I mean, after John Jr disappointed the QAnon folk by remaining dead.
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My favorite of Mel Tormé's is "Swings Schubert Alley" from 1960, more than 15 years after the formation of the Mel-Tones. But you could make a case for some of the much later recordings as well.
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The written word can only approach the strongest terms asymptotically; each spoken, and thus finite, term in the infinite series "condemnation" is necessarily less strong than the strongest terms. It's just math, David.
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He is risen... into orbit?
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Question—I think I count 19 people given that "up-and-comer" official response slot, and of those, I think it helped only Paul Ryan and maybe Tim Kaine? And was bad for everyone else's careers—is that correct?
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Indeed. But our zoning laws are maintaining the quality of our neighborhoods!
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Hartford has it!
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If "from" means "on the hard drive of"...
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The third short story by Melissa Shaner and me—a story of storytelling, love and rising tide.
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Follow-up: The challenger in that race immediately withdrew, with the highest % of the NH vote for any candidate who withdrew immediately after. Who was that candidate, what percentage of the primary vote supported him, and what was the issue that was the basis for his challenge to the incumbent?
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If, as seems quite likely, either Donald Trump or Joe Biden win in November, their highly-asterisked result will have done significantly worse than the answer to my question, who did significantly worse than the other five.
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Your New Hampshire Primary Trivia question: Only six candidates (so far) had already been President at the time of the New Hampshire Primary and then won the general election in November. Which one of those six had the worst showing?
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Unless the award you're picking to care about is the Hugo. There's definitely something wrong with that.
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Hey, now, that's not entirely fair. He had a few years with the Padres.
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It was George McGovern, who ran again in 84 (briefly, but through Iowa and New Hampshire).
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See, the orchestra conductor said that performing for a live audience, and attending a live performance, were acts of rebellion. My son was skeptical, and rightly so. And yet...
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Strange that this came up recently for me, too, although it was me on the wrong side... we were talking about Walter Benjamin with our teenager, as you do, and I totally got called on conflating the existence of a market with 'capitalism'.
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Bonus question—obviously Donald Trump had the worst showing in the Iowa caucus by any candidate who had previously _held_ the office of President. Who was the previous President whose Iowa win was closest, and what was his percentage of the caucus ‘vote’ in Iowa that year?
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Trivia question: Despite his incredible unpopularity, Donald Trump’s 51% is somehow _not_ the worst showing in the Iowa caucus by anyone who has ever been his Party’s nominee in a previous cycle. Who does hold that record?
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“I thought I was destined to live a meaningless life but not any more,” said a masked figure only known as “Mr. H”, the Chief Ambassador of Hypernation. They are... not making this up?
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For anyone who is here and not in another place, and might not know about it: Tonight at 8 (Eastern Standard) I will be live on the YouTube reading a Ghost Story for Christmas that I co-wrote with my marvelous Brain Trust partner, Melissa Shaner!
www.youtube.com/live/M2LOkGo...
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This is just a personal pet peeve, but it makes me very cross when a business has a lit-up chanukah menorah after the end of the holiday. It's just wrong.
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I spend forty hours a week at a university library, among the students and faculty—and my spouse is a Dean—and I would be very hesitant to make a pronouncement about what Students Are Like, or what Students’ Lives Are Like, even at the institution that employs me.
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Well, not compared to being president of a _midsized_ American university.
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So accurate. Still the case. It turns out, though, completely unexpectedly, that "Oy Hanukkah" is actually a pretty good holiday song, if done correctly (that is, klezmer style, very fast and in Yiddish). This would not have helped the grade school chorus concerts.
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(and, of lesser national but greater personal importance, means that staff at libraries that are not free public libraries have to deal with the assumption that our workplaces are all free public libraries, which, not so much)
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This is where a jerk like me points out that the _free public library_, as distinct from the subscription library or private library, is a major US innovation. Americans tend to think of "library" as meaning "free public library", which, imao, leads to not valuing the free public libraries enough.
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So, I have a question for watchers of _Doctor Who_, particularly those among the older demographic: Is this the first time that we’ve had a Companion with a Kid Back Home? (leaving aside definitional quibbles for "Companion", "Kid" and "Back Home")
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Important question: how should I feel about my local high school theater putting on _Chicago_? I can't imagine feeling anything but hideously uncomfortable watching an underage Velma and Roxie, not to mention... everything else.
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… and then I sometimes find them really interesting in themselves. What people believe (or once believed or claim to believe) is important!
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But the alternative is... not engaging with the texts that are central to people's lives? It's awkward, of course. Mostly I focus on my own Scriptures because (a) they're the most important to me and (2) I can claim some sort of 'right' to them. But those texts exist in conversation with others…
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_The Red Tent_ was part of the conversation, yeah. I (obvs) think that intellectual challenge and rigor, and also creative joy, are totally compatible with both religious respect and actual belief. But I suppose not everyone is brought up to think that, or brought up to think that other people do.
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This is interesting to me—I am often surprised when educated, intellectually-curious people aren't interested in the Bible and don't know much about it. I've never felt at all embarrassed by knowing a fair amount about the Scriptures, but then I may be unaware of how people react to that knowledge.
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Rep. Santos may be one of those cases! It’s not obvious to me whether that's true or not. But the (undeniable and obvious) fact that he does not _deserve_ to be in the House doesn't necessarily mean to me that it's a good idea to expel him from it.
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Not that anyone should care but: my personal opinion is that expelling a duly elected Representative from Congress seems like a terrible thing that should only happen in the most extraordinary of circumstances, where letting the legislator serve would be actually a danger of some kind.
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