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Mike from Burke (now Cville)

@mikefrburkecville.bsky.social

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Refugee from the birdsite. Retired commercial real estate attorney. Giants and Yankees; UVA sports. Haverford College; UVA Law. Bourbon and craft beer. Commish of HMMRBL (fantasy baseball, founded 1985). Westie dad. Semi-repentant TK Little.


Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Is there anything sillier than major newspapers and media outlets, who would know better if they thought about it, wetting themselves over interviews with 6 voters?

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He’s a fucking clown.

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Purple drank?

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Also, the idiots who set off fireworks when it’s still light out.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Exactly.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Years ago, I think in ‘84 (Reagan-Mondale), Johnny Carson quipped that, as a boy, he’d been told that anybody could grow up to be president, but he didn’t “think they meant just anybody!”

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youtu.be/XkLqAlIETkA?...

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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“Anybody got a tape measure?”

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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“Investigators were trying to determine the motive and were not ruling out a racial motivation, he said” No shit, Hercules Poirot.

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I saw “Star Wars”-themed Oreos at Costco today, and managed to walk away without them.

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Yeah, leaving Twitter was a positive move for me.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Feeds/Friends is now my default.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Her supporters could meet in one booth at McDonald’s.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Sure, let’s call down the WHOLE apocalypse.

www.mediaite.com/news/a-savio...

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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“Again”?

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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The kids know.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Blair Witch Project made so many idiots think that they, too, could be horror auteurs.

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Bannon goes to jail today, Doo-dah, doo-dah, Is he free? I shout, “Nay-nay!” All the live-long day.

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I had forgotten the majesty of their stupidity.

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Goddess, she is.

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Hilarious, her fave then, and NOW.

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Step 1: Steal the underwear. Step 2: ? Step 3: New nominee.

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“At Tractor Supply, moral cowardice is our most important product.”

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Well, that’s their target audience.

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None.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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“You don’t understand!”

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Just had a guy on FB - a lawyer - try to tell me that there must be some validity to a lawsuit, or the attorneys wouldn’t have filed it. He cited the possibility of sanctions in support of his position. WHAT?

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“Only stupid people, like certain statewide officials, believe that to be true.”

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Can also recommend the “hoppy refreshers” made by some breweries (Lagunitas, Sierra Nevada, Short’s). Zero alcohol; zero carbs - basically, seltzer water with hops added. Not as good as a real beer, but it can scratch the itch.

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I like black butts, and I cannot lie.

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“Let’s go to Snoop Dogg, who’s got Bob’s third cousin to discuss Bob’s tragic childhood case of athlete’s foot.”

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They no read goodly.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Yeah, that’s the alumni.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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One of the young folks at my former gig once asked me if I’d ever heard of Rocky Horror Picture Show. My response was, “I was Frank N. Furter for Halloween TWICE, you punk.”

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It also has “Exhibit A” written all over it.

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The day I deleted that app from my phone AND deleted my account was glorious. Congrats!

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Also, eating and shelter.

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I’m betting Burgum.

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Yeah, that doesn’t hit like he thinks it hits.

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Did you refresh his recollection of his own avarice?

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Mike from Burke (now Cville)'s avatar Mike from Burke (now Cville) @mikefrburkecville.bsky.social
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Are the Indigo Girls touring?

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Oh, Bobo . . .

www.salon.com/2024/06/21/w...

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There’s room for the rest of the Brit journalism clowns in that particular volcano.

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My God, more dead people voting!

www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

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Look, I’m 65. If Bill wants to bang young girls, that’s his thing, though he looks pretty stupid, as old men with young girls normally do. But don’t tell me how they “bonded.”

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“You take one down, you pass it around . . .”

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“Made-up holiday.” I guess that’s what you say when you’ve never thought about it.

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Serious “80s power pop band a few years after the hits stopped coming” energy there.

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Not just mandating the Ten Commandments be posted in the classrooms, they’re requiring some jackleg half-assedversion worse than the KJV.

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