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Why didn't Thompson jump up and say, "Fight, fight, fight?"

FTA: Mangione, 28, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges stemming from the Dec. 4, 2024, fatal shooting of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel. If convicted, he could face life in prison.

I might be a Luddite in a lot of respects, but I just have no application for vast swathes of tech.

Privacy isn't the issue. I presume my life is an open book. I presume that between the government and whoever else has cameras (Do you have a doorbell Ring device?) could track me right now through existing facial technology, going back months if they wanted to, and I live in comparatively small-town America.

If I gunned down a healthcare CEO, that is.

Put cameras on everyone's faces? Not on mine. That's a personal choice. Lotsa things I don't need to experience in real time, or at all.

Baywatch. Oh my god.

The Dodgers and the Giants left New York in 1958. People got over it.

"Suddenly the show was at risk of becoming the wrong kind of symbol."

Yeah, when The Hoff showed up.

Lewzer can't even find plausible lie composers.

I've posted it recently, but if you've not yet enjoyed: Nina Simone, "Mississippi Goddam."

2. G7 leader cage fights. Right along with the World Cup.

China is ancient. Communist China is synthetic. It has no reason to exist, and can't without oppressing the Chinese.
And Communist China is a lot younger than USA. When was the Cultural Revolution?
Also, how old is Western Civilization? I'm going with "since the Helenic era", so 4,500 years. That was the start of Greco-Roman civilization, or at least its roots.

#86 | Posted by HeliumRat

Cultures and peoples go on and on, regardless of politics.

We are not the United States of Greco-Roman.

And much of the US doesn't like the culture and people it's becoming.

So who's gonna stick it out for the long haul? I'm not saying whose approach is better. Who is making international friends of any stripe now? Who seems stable now?

Damn. I think Cor had CutiePie nailed a few months ago.

You have time.
You just ran out of facts.

#16 | Posted by snoofy

Just effin priceless. Thanks, Snoofy.

America will trudge along, leaving imploding China in the dust,

A. Agree
B. No. You don't think we're imploding now?

China has all that socialist crap like 5-year plans. We have elections every few months of one kind or another to keep people distracted. Who's gonna tank?

We're celebrating 250 years. When did China do that? 3000 BC?

I'd argue about this:

A willing people and a willing government. I don't think the US will have that for a long time.

#73 | Posted by Dbt2

But then again, quoting yourself is the last bastion of [fill in the blank].

I'm not saying anything. I mentioned the report and the main takeaway people are going to see if they click the link.

Sorry for not arguing.

Being a Yankee, Moynihan likely didn't focus as much on the racist hells of the Northeast like Boston.

^ clip from the link

Just to make sure the second part is included in people's takeaways:

Moynihan argued that the rise in black single-mother families was caused not by a lack of jobs for men, but by a destructive vein in ghetto culture, which could be traced back to the slavery era and the subsequent racial discrimination in the American South under Jim Crow laws.

Gee, remember the Moynihan Report?

Was someone going to get in the cage and beat on Qusay?

That's entertainment.

6. Kickbacks from reconstruction expenses paid to US contractors that Iran can bleed from us?

How many Americans got wealthy building hugely in Iraq after the conflict ended, and not to US benefit?

Doesn't the paragraph following the headline usually relate to the headline?

Low energy.

Let's not forget that Wm. S. Burroughs used antihistamines to get off heroin.

I experienced antihistamine overload one time after ingesting a pill and then adding topical cream for a bad case of poison ivy.

I couldn't pick up my head for hours. I can only imagine that antihistamine overload might take one's mind off heroin withdrawal.

A seemingly benign substance.

Who?

Well, he is a high school graduate, so let's give him that.

But maybe he doesn't speak or hear too well, and has taken a few too many hits to the head. Sports the wife-beater nicely, though.

But according to Boaz, Helene killed those drum-circle lefties around Asheville who had it coming.

As much of a pinata as Boaz was, the DR isn't suffering from his absence.

Bless his heart.

No one on Trump's team has any sense of propriety, and Haberman will end up with a Pulitzer.