"I don’t know how to describe the last 15 years other than to say most Republicans revealed that they would rather have a white king than a Black president."
Is it good that the Supreme Court is taking seriously claims that a sitting* President could order his** rivals murdered and face no legal consequences, or literally order a military coup and be safe from any possible legal action afterwards?
Lots of campaign stuff to do today (outside of work, obviously). HATE IT. One of the questionnaire questions is "what do you think the hardest part of this job would be?"
I'm annoyed at the question, since I have the job, so it's not speculation, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to answer that the hardest part is actually campaigning. It's another job on top of the actual job, and one you can't do while doing your actual job, because ETHICS. It's sort of opposite of the job, because you're asking people to do something FOR you, which implies you'll do something FOR them...
I don't know. Once again I was awake at 3 with that gagging terror feeling...at least I'm starting to see what the overnighters all get up to, which is cray, bless you all.
... I love Waits, cover a lot of his stuff. Mostly later things, from Rain Dogs and on, when he got more experimental, after meeting his wife and now cowriter Brennan.
’Invitation To The Blues’—together with ‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’—is a rare exception—a thing I do from his earlier work. I just put together my cover recently—this presumably why it’s so high on that list right now. Listened to it a lot trying to get it all to work.
Really pretty happy now with the arrangement I put together. Was able to get lots of the beautiful, wistful dissonance of Waits’ piano into my six plucked strings.
I have just now as of this week performed it twice in total in public—once solo on Monday, then together with the band Wednesday. Both times pretty well received.
1865: Union troops corner and kill John Wilkes Booth, Abe Lincoln’s assassin.
I don't normally do a thing on the history in a new thingy, preferring to keep comments in the thread in which they belong, but I got a fun share on this one.
So supe got a call the other day from an outreach partner saying a reporter wants to know all about the Garret farm. Said farm is where the fucker up there got it in the end, and happens to be on my work place's property (sort of). The reporter /ought/ to know that if they want to discuss the property, they need to contact our PAO guy, because that is all we're allowed to do, refer them to our PAO guy, which supe did.
The thing is, the locals love to tell the tale of how the Army destroyed this Very Important Historic Site (which at the time of acquisition, was abandoned and falling down, but I digress, it is very important) but this is where the sort of comes into play. While the Army sure did nothing to preserve the site, they were not the ones who destroyed it- the DOT did in 66 right before the passage of a law (NHPA) that may have preserved it, when they built a highway right over top of the thing, straight through the middle of the work place.
This is all public knowledge so I can share it, but also something A Reporter should have known about if they did even a modicum of the research. It ain't like road building is not incredibly well documented. A better story would be how the DOT rushed road projects to get ahead of that law in 66, I would think, but whatta I know.
Oh noes, TABS are late! Guess I'll read them later after I get home and walk the dog.
Men are better at..
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2024/04/26
A substack note that just showed up in my feed:
"I don’t know how to describe the last 15 years other than to say most Republicans revealed that they would rather have a white king than a Black president."
https://substack.com/@thecause/note/c-54803035
Seven Day Weekend
https://youtu.be/-NWUfH20nVs?si=n1koskQgdFpn1tB5
https://www.rawstory.com/trumps-supreme-court/
Is it good that the Supreme Court is taking seriously claims that a sitting* President could order his** rivals murdered and face no legal consequences, or literally order a military coup and be safe from any possible legal action afterwards?
The answers may surprise you!
*Republican
**see the first asterisk
morning birb
https://open.substack.com/pub/tek01/p/quiet-morning?r=2lkddo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Kristi Noem bragging in new book about straight-up murdering a pet dog and goat.
Lots of campaign stuff to do today (outside of work, obviously). HATE IT. One of the questionnaire questions is "what do you think the hardest part of this job would be?"
I'm annoyed at the question, since I have the job, so it's not speculation, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to answer that the hardest part is actually campaigning. It's another job on top of the actual job, and one you can't do while doing your actual job, because ETHICS. It's sort of opposite of the job, because you're asking people to do something FOR you, which implies you'll do something FOR them...
I don't know. Once again I was awake at 3 with that gagging terror feeling...at least I'm starting to see what the overnighters all get up to, which is cray, bless you all.
Now we know where to send flowers!
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝘆𝗿𝘂𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗼
Various imaging methods comprised a kind of "bionic eye" to examine charred scroll. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/deciphered-herculaneum-papyrus-reveals-precise-burial-place-of-plato/
Twelfth right now on the autogenerated ‘you streamed these the most so far this year’ list my streaming service puts together for me:
Tom Waits—Invitation To The Blues
https://youtu.be/Ag2hddV1hE4
... I love Waits, cover a lot of his stuff. Mostly later things, from Rain Dogs and on, when he got more experimental, after meeting his wife and now cowriter Brennan.
’Invitation To The Blues’—together with ‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’—is a rare exception—a thing I do from his earlier work. I just put together my cover recently—this presumably why it’s so high on that list right now. Listened to it a lot trying to get it all to work.
Really pretty happy now with the arrangement I put together. Was able to get lots of the beautiful, wistful dissonance of Waits’ piano into my six plucked strings.
I have just now as of this week performed it twice in total in public—once solo on Monday, then together with the band Wednesday. Both times pretty well received.
Watching Claude Rains as The Invisible Man.
https://youtu.be/uSSlYwVEMSM?si=cazgOZrh5HbacZnD
1865: Union troops corner and kill John Wilkes Booth, Abe Lincoln’s assassin.
I don't normally do a thing on the history in a new thingy, preferring to keep comments in the thread in which they belong, but I got a fun share on this one.
So supe got a call the other day from an outreach partner saying a reporter wants to know all about the Garret farm. Said farm is where the fucker up there got it in the end, and happens to be on my work place's property (sort of). The reporter /ought/ to know that if they want to discuss the property, they need to contact our PAO guy, because that is all we're allowed to do, refer them to our PAO guy, which supe did.
The thing is, the locals love to tell the tale of how the Army destroyed this Very Important Historic Site (which at the time of acquisition, was abandoned and falling down, but I digress, it is very important) but this is where the sort of comes into play. While the Army sure did nothing to preserve the site, they were not the ones who destroyed it- the DOT did in 66 right before the passage of a law (NHPA) that may have preserved it, when they built a highway right over top of the thing, straight through the middle of the work place.
This is all public knowledge so I can share it, but also something A Reporter should have known about if they did even a modicum of the research. It ain't like road building is not incredibly well documented. A better story would be how the DOT rushed road projects to get ahead of that law in 66, I would think, but whatta I know.
FUCK YES 4.11 HOURS OF WORK AND IT'S THE WEEKEND!
There’s a free 866! Word Squardle bonus today woot woooot!
"Is there anything so great, that if you added a person in a gorilla suit, it would not be greater?"
A posh banquet.
A bank heist.
An NCAA final.
A high-sped car chase.
A police line-up.
A convention of people in gorilla suits.
.
No. NOTHING cannot be made better than if a person in a gorilla suit is added.
Otterly cute otter get crumbs on her face.
https://youtu.be/G_3tSb8HPlA?si=7j4wIaFIYaI5acIk