I think its just a troll by the current administration, but the employees being told not to respond may be reaction this administration was looking for.

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds

So trolling has become a gauge for popular perception and subsequent policy decisions. Great way to govern.

52. I don't think Laura is here to make this subject more interesting for you. Just guessing.

Copying and pasting other people's quotes and videos doesn't work for you because you don't have enough background or personal experience.

#51 | Posted by BillJohnson

You are judgmental to a bizarre extreme. What's your opinion on grace?

Ed Sanders? The Fugs' Ed Sanders?

Well . . . one more, then back to work.

I've never tried to figure it all out -- and after five or six decades I've not been curious enough to look up the lyrics -- but I don't believe the words "murder mystery" are uttered here, among the four different voices.

Mo Tucker sounding intriguing as always.

Velvet Underground, "The Murder Mystery":

That said, I do agree with you that the mysteries are being revealed to us over time.

#25 | Posted by BillJohnson

I'm just telling you what I read. I don't agree or disagree. I'm a dispassionate though because of my work very curious observer.

One might say I'm agnostic, but like "bisexual," lots of folks don't like to hear that word.

Jefferson Airplane, "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil"

[in honor of Fred Neil]

"After the Gold Rush": Parton, Ronstadt, Harris

(get past the first minute of Letterman jabbering, and it's incredibly beautiful)

Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil."

Zimmer-Man, "Positively 4th Street"

3. Not to mention their six rounds of golf during work hours.

"The two things have little to do with each other; one thing in the bible being accurate does not mean all the rest is accurate."

You are now officially a dork.

#18 | Posted by BillJohnson

And not that you care, but about 150 years of all kinds of Christian and Catholic theologians disagree with you, even the not so liberal ones.

You can live in your own world, just don't try to claim it works for everyone.

If there were one correct approach to the Bible, I'd mostly be out of work.

I was proofing the work recently of an Italian journalist who is very well studied in Catholic orthodoxy. His line?

The New Testament is full of mysteries that continue to reveal themselves.

Like it or not. Dork.

Al Dimeola short.

As a good Jew, Weiner was there for the Chinese food. No rubber chicken dinner.

2. Thx.

Damn Times of India doesn't allow cutting and pasting of text.

Spouse makes sense. Inseminated person, not so much.

"America must have Peaked in High School."

interesting metaphor for our society.

Also, for years in Europe, Alzheimer's is often known as Diabetes type 3.

The brain is a place we will never understand.

My wife is a few years into early-onset Alzheimer's. Began in her late 50s. She's now 71. I'm her caregiver. We went through it with her mother too. It's an amazing process to watch. And even the top docs know what happens, but never really why.

Problem is, when it comes to 2026, too many dumfux will go in there and mash that button for the incumbent.

Little-known fact: Gary Gilmore's last words were not "Let's do it."

AI-generated (originally from Norman Mailer's book):

Thomas Meersman, the Catholic prison chaplain, administered the last rites to Gilmore. After the prison physician cloaked him in a black hood, Gilmore uttered his last words to Meersman: "Dominus vobis---" (Latin, translation: "The Lord be with you"). Meersman replied, "Et --- spiritu tuo" ("And with your spirit").

Sometimes I can't get enough Henry Flynt.

Hillbilly Tape Music (1960)

Or this, not so soothing:

Henry Flynt, You Are My Everlovin'.

Passion and skill? Yes, and soothing.

John Fahey, Fare Forward Voyagers.

#3 | Posted by snoofy

welcome back

19. Hardly. With a twist or turn, I'm rather content with how my life's turned out.

But I'll stand by my statement. Read a book once in a while.

And, yes, life is pathetic. Even nice ones. I'm not talking about you or me.

If you're one of the fake Christians around here, are you waiting for heaven?

Why?