I've been reading about McElroy for a few years. Francis is a world-class troll. And the doctrinaire Catholics in DC likely already hate both of them.

The Vatican won't even be curious about any threats or intimidation from Trump. Those few blocks in Rome are worth a lot more than Trump's fake fortune, even after paying off probably a few billion dollars in sex abuse settlements.

Match that, Donald, patron saint of grifters.

8.

Frogs and ---- coming soon.

James Buchanan holds the distinction of being probably the first, and not entirely closeted, gay president in US history. And his lover was a US senator from ... the Deep South.

You can look it up yourself.

And not everything is on the Internet. Read a book once in a while. I'm so tired of Got a Link?

Coulda sworn it would be a Boaz thread.

Tattoos at any age are probably not a good long-term decision.

At nine years old, I was wondering which of the two Steinberg* sisters I was more in lust with. Both had just come into school during the 1969 NYC teachers' strike. Even at that age I was full of self-loathing and knew I had no game.

I'm almost 65 now, and I must admit I find the occasional tattoo kinda hot now.

Although not on 65- or 9-year-olds.

*Name changed to protect ... me.

Fact checkers are often really bad at what they do.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger

How does that happen? Does it happen equally for all parties, or just some of them?

Some posters here don't, for example, understand that facts aren't gauged by what feels right to them.

Antifa, like Woody Guthrie?

$1.5 million. Guy must be a lousy lay.

Gary Gilmore. Nine months from crime to punishment. Unreal in retrospect.

I have two very liberal millennial sons. Both have grown up and lived through enough history to loathe the Democratic Party.

They'll still vote for local Democrats, but are in no way happy with the national Democrats' actions during their lifetime.

I'm south of DC. Supposed to hit around 11pm, with total by tomorrow night of up to 10 inches.

DC radio is all about the confluence of events coming up, with the funeral, the inauguration, etc.

I was in the car earlier, and the traffic reporter said there was a First Amendment action going on at a certain DC intersection, and cars should avoid that area.

Interesting that they didn't identify the First Amendment cause. Maybe it was just a bunch of historical buffs trying to reclaim all the good in the swastika.

"When your heart is sick, your liver is just around the corner."

I'm old enough to remember when any association with Nazism, even if misguided or incorrect, was, shall we say, less than fashionable. Now you can't swing a cat without hitting elements of it being (re)normalized. No thanks.

"Conscious and talking" is a pretty low bar. If only that could limit her potential threat.

"Twenty-five years ago on January 1, despite panic and fear that the world was soon to collapse into chaos, nothing much happened."

Morality tale? I guess we can hope.

Stripped for parts. Priceless.

"Marriage is a great institution. It beats being blind and crippled anytime." -- Dan Jenkins

[I'm married 37.]

Congratulations.

2000 a night? Musk probably p!$$es that amount away in chemicals by sundown.

Brokeback Biggie.

Thanks, Corky. This is about the only source I'd accept, as the Yale Book of Quotations was my source for the assertion. I worked on that book, so saw it in production.

You'll appreciate this. I pointed out that Somebody to Love and White Rabbit were actually written in 1966 when Grace Slick was with the Great Society instead of 1967, etc. Lines from them appeared in the Yale Book (2nd Ed.).

Mofo didn't make the change.

Thanks for the update.

I'm realizing I am proud to say that I shook hands and spoke with both Thompson and Carter.

Thompson at the Huntsville, AL, airport in the spring of '78. Carter in about 2001 after his Sunday school class at Maranatha Bap. My wife went up and gave Carter a kiss, and he said, "Right on!"

Niebuhr also never admitted he stole the Serenity Prayer from his secretary.

Neither here nor there.

In one of his Rolling Stone articles on Carter, the Good Doctor allowed that while he was a fan of Carter's, the one member of the family he could unhesitatingly vote for as president was Miz Lillian.

120.

Regional influence and "friendships" in areas not their own. Like the US used to do. And they deal in areas where the US has not been successful.

Sorry. End of 81:

Now America firsters want to a. bitch about China moving into South and Central America and b. withdraw from the global marketplace.

Magat scum are ------- morons.

China has all this influence cause for the past 20 years while America was fighting the GWoT, China has been investing in third world countries. Their investments are paying dividends in access to rare minerals and markets for their supplies.

81. truthhurts

MAGA has nothing to do with it. Everyone's ignored the China threat. I was editing peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles about exactly this from this perspective 15 years ago. Based often on documents only available in Chinese.

Sooner or later, America will lose to China because we've been outmaneuvered by them. And I'm saying that as a liberal. And I've said this here before.

Oh, and God save us from academia, right? For that you can thank MAGA and its predecessors.