Have we already settled which other armed US functionaries or court orders can kill American citizens?

I'd frankly expect no less from certain members of the TN National Guard.

I've said it before here: East TN has much to offer, but a generally enlightened population isn't high in the rankings.

At age 66, I am by no means an old man these days. Nor do I feel like one.

But I remember being caught up short years ago when I realized how close my birth year of 1960 was to 1945.

And I went to college and found out that one of my friend's uncles was on the flight crew that bombed Nagasaki.

Like Ray Davies sang, "I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't want to die here."

His sons were on either side of me in school by a year, and we lived around the corner in the County of Kings. He would give us all rides to school some days.

I was not surprised to see this man still alive. He showed up in the news every few years until his death, although it was never bad news.

Always a smile on his face. I think he was rescued around age 12.

8. The father of two kids I went to school with had a tattoo. Numbers on the forearm.

I asked my stepfather, a good friend of his, about it. The answer was no more than three words.

Sweet man. He passed a few years ago at age 101.

I mean the people being hired by the current administration based on God knows what criteria to replace the institutional knowledge that's been lost during his administrations.

We're gonna be floundering in a stocked and yet to be drained swamp for awhile. These folks will suck on the teat too, as long as they can, if they can avoid the craziness once Trump dies.

18.

There's more credible history in posts 20 and 21 than would fill a room of the garbage you've swallowed.

Ohio: Almost Kentucky.

Without which we wouldn't have Fernwood 2 Night, one of TV's moments of genius.

Like the garbage industry, the food industry, and a few others, the people in NYC construction sometimes answer to a higher authority than building codes and government enforcement.

They are too well dressed for shuffleboard down by the cabanas.

To me, that looks like patience and hope backed by a show of strength.

#6 | Posted by BillJohnson

Stunning, those qualities coming from Trump. Wow. I just hadn't looked at it through that lens.

Wow. Thanks.

The question isn't if but for how long he has been.

We recently reunited with some friends from 30 years ago. One couple remains unrepentant MAGA, the other the wife's face is twisted with hate for anyone who dares to think Israel shouldn't be able to do whatever TF it wants.

Both women are educated and Jewish to the core.

Horrifying.

I live within 90 minutes of DC, and these mofos are wrong every day on everything except temperature.

Lots of federalized dummies brought up through the ranks under Trump.

Going to be like COVID. Years of education lost.

Can't change the past. The next minute entirely unpredictable.

That's what.

Takeaway: Stop grabbing -----.

So, and seriously, what do these young people think the point of their lives is?
#17 | Posted by Zed

I read a lot of rehashed dissertations turned into scholars' first published monographs.

Aside from the natural sciences, much scholarship these days, as I saw it once described, falls under the realm of PhMe.

Much knowledge is being refocused into the perspective of different interest groups.

As represented by the author.

Makes for lighter reading than 25 years ago.

Charles Manson is vastly overrated.

Options: Mr. Whipple. Dylann Roof.

Princeton has nice skirts.

--objectivist boomer, who learned everything useful before or after college

MAGAts should start self-sacrificing rites to their god.

Preferably those still young or healthy enough to breed.

Harris pointed out Biden's obvious racism and you clowns still supported him.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at

16: This isn't Whataboutism.

We need a non sequitur flag.

In the long run, the South won the Civil War.

Mostly thanks to a long string of incumbent Democratic senators in the 20th century.

Here we are.

Some more, a little different.

This is sacred steel. I don't know what them white girls are talking about.

Great US characters:

Senator Sam Ervin (D-NC), "Bridge over Troubled Water":