Platner is egregious. El-Sayed, you just lost. Suck it up. It's no different than Abughazaleh refusing to endorse Biss imo.
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"Deserve" and "loyalty" are words that you should not use about countries and politicians generally. Leads to bad thinking.
I think there's a selection of people who believe that certain things are endowed with magical, nay, mystical qualities, and that those things are kept from them by a conspiracy of people with no other goal than malice, and this informs people's takes on Vimes' boot theory.
Congratulations to El-Sayed and I look forward to seeing Stevens' endorsement in the near future.
"Max, this is your lawyer speaking. I quit"
NEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...
People who listen to the PA music at the gym are are most unhinged freaks
Refuse to learn more, but the whole "Polanski supporting neo-Nazis" thing is confusing me every time I see it
Well, you can't say I didn't warn him about bringing that energy into my mentions.
You must kill the part of you that wants to correct count/noncount noun usage
I trust everyone is being normal about Michigan right now
This is the kinda candidate, like Platner, who loses winnable elections, which is why you didn't hitch your horse to this kinda guy
whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation
Dating app where we get to crowd source the picks, which the candidates don't get to select: brilliant, evil, or brilliantly evil
There were around 50–70 million people total in 500 BCE, so something around 10% of the entire human population alive at the time the Odyssey was written have now seen Christopher Nolan's version.
I mean, the Odyssey has $2 million in pre-sales in *China* so I’m gonna say this is true
I would simply have Odysseus to the camera and tell the audience exactly what he thinks should happen to unwelcome house guests
This passage makes me want to just log off and throw my phone in the river. The discourse on this has officially reached its end
This one seemed to be a window into the monitor when it scrolled down the TL.
Once again, the US's problems are red state problems. 9 of the top 10 life expectancy states voted for Harris, and 9 out of 10 of the bottom 10 voted for Trump. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nv...
If you live in London or NYC you actually have about the same life expectancy When you start factoring in people who live 50 miles from the nearest hospital? Things look worse
"Junky," Burroughs "Hell's Angels," Thompson "Kim," Kipling "Moons of Jupiter," Munro "Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," Alexie
James has gone & named two that I'd have put on my list so let's audible to substitutes because bad ppl authors is a deeeep bench to draw from The BFG- Roald Dahl The Color Purple- Alice Walker The Pickwick Papers- Charles Dickens The Executioner's Song- Norman Mailer Hyperion- Dan Simmons
That is one of the worst covers I've ever seen
"We became very close friends, still are. I put my heart and soul into that album. I think Andy’s on record as saying it’s his favourite. I’m a bit of a jack-of-all-trades, but my strongest suit is vocal production." Martyn Ware on #Erasure - I Say I Say I Say buff.ly/Uimnets
If I had just experienced my biggest payday due to a film adaptation I didn't like, I'd probably just shut up about it. But if I did have to air my grievances publicly, I'd probably at least keep it to one screed tbh
It is October 4, 2031. Emily Wilson has published her 100,000th think piece about Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey"
It really sucks that Trump handed Iran a total strategic victory