L. Russell Allen, IV

@rustyincbus.bsky.social

Cape Codder in Columbus.

The prologue of every Stephen King novel published between 1975 and 1988: Under thy shadow by the piers I waited Only in darkness is thy shadow clear. The City’s fiery parcels all undone, Already snow submerges an iron year...--Hart Crane We've got the biggest balls of them all --AC/DC

the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't understand why this keeps getting overlooked: Joe Biden won in 2020 in the middle of Peak Woke. I'd go one step further than @brianbeutler.bsky.social does here: Biden *defended the BLM protesters!* www.offmessage.net/p/woke-one-a...

I just keep coming back to one question: If being 2 1/2 games out of a playoff berth with 51 games left is a selling position, what is the value of that playoff berth? Why are we letting 40% of the teams into the playoffs, deeply undermining the regular season, if this is how teams act?

Since going to bat for Ken Jennings, I’ve been blocked by three accounts. One which told me I’d never meet god and the 2nd said they were glad the other Lester Russell Allens were dead. (My dad is fine.) These people think they are righteous. (The 3rd account was my fault, I did try to apologize)

One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.

The last two days NBC News has mentioned several times that Lindsey Graham had the second most appearances on Meet the Press behind John McCain. I dunno, feels more like an opportunity for self-reflection than an opportunity to brag.

Keys to the second half for the US: - Paul George???? - How did it go from "We'll trade this guy for Giannis" to "Oh sure we'll trade for a 36 year old guy who can't play 60 games in a season" - Is there even any way to build a sustainable NBA team under the apron rules? - Limit set pieces