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Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation. I got this book from a friend in 1990. It has survived over a dozen moves since then! Here is my favorite passage:
You will be visited by 3 spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
You will be visited by 3 spirits.
@profanity.accountant I don’t think I swear much, do I?
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
@profanity.accountant I don’t think I swear much, do I?
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Grateful Dead
Fishbone
Burning Spear
NRBQ
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Grateful Dead
Fishbone
Burning Spear
NRBQ
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Nirvana
Bowie & NIN
Wu
Sunny Day Real Estate
Kendrick
Nirvana
Bowie & NIN
Wu
Sunny Day Real Estate
Kendrick
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
Bo Diddley
Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel
cast of Glee
The Kingston Trio
Bo Diddley
Ani DiFranco
Simon & Garfunkel
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Grateful Dead
Fishbone
Burning Spear
NRBQ
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Grateful Dead
Fishbone
Burning Spear
NRBQ
Clarence Gatemouth Brown
Re Epstein Files:
Representatives who want the files released need 218 signatures on the discharge petition. Looks like they’ll get there tomorrow if no one backs out. Then it needs to pass the House and the Senate with veto-proof margins because Trump PROBABLY won’t sign it into law.
Representatives who want the files released need 218 signatures on the discharge petition. Looks like they’ll get there tomorrow if no one backs out. Then it needs to pass the House and the Senate with veto-proof margins because Trump PROBABLY won’t sign it into law.
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Re Epstein Files:
Representatives who want the files released need 218 signatures on the discharge petition. Looks like they’ll get there tomorrow if no one backs out. Then it needs to pass the House and the Senate with veto-proof margins because Trump PROBABLY won’t sign it into law.
Representatives who want the files released need 218 signatures on the discharge petition. Looks like they’ll get there tomorrow if no one backs out. Then it needs to pass the House and the Senate with veto-proof margins because Trump PROBABLY won’t sign it into law.
This Is Spinal Tap and Repo Man
You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?
2001 (1968) and My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
2001 (1968) and My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
July 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This Is Spinal Tap and Repo Man
Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday ready for a hurricane – but not a summer shower
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
But I built it all the same, just to own the libs
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
But I built it all the same, just to own the libs
July 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday ready for a hurricane – but not a summer shower
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
But I built it all the same, just to own the libs
Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
But I built it all the same, just to own the libs
Standing by the food tent at a Further Fest show eating a bowl of pasta salad. Bus pulls up in front of me and the door opens. Bob Weir steps out with a football in his hand and gives me an absent-minded hand shake. I finish my pasta and he throws the ball around with a roadie in the parking lot.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Standing by the food tent at a Further Fest show eating a bowl of pasta salad. Bus pulls up in front of me and the door opens. Bob Weir steps out with a football in his hand and gives me an absent-minded hand shake. I finish my pasta and he throws the ball around with a roadie in the parking lot.
Waiting for an elevator in the Nashville public library in circa 2006. The door opens and inside is Dolly Parton and her agent. He asks us to wait for the next one, she gives us a cheerful "Hi, y'all!"
The elevator door closes.
The elevator door closes.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Waiting for an elevator in the Nashville public library in circa 2006. The door opens and inside is Dolly Parton and her agent. He asks us to wait for the next one, she gives us a cheerful "Hi, y'all!"
The elevator door closes.
The elevator door closes.
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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Not only that but when Donald's recession hits, the price of oil will go down. Oil is a big source of revenue for Putin.
Russia isn’t winning. They’re burning through men, tanks older than your dad, and begging North Korea for troops. That’s not strength—it’s desperation. We didn’t let them win the Cold War, and we won’t let them fake a win now.
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Still Think Russia Is Defeating Ukraine? Watch This
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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May 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Not only that but when Donald's recession hits, the price of oil will go down. Oil is a big source of revenue for Putin.
Benjamin only gets dry dogfood in the morning and he tries to make me feel bad about it but I look at my bowl of shredded wheat and give him the finger.
April 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Benjamin only gets dry dogfood in the morning and he tries to make me feel bad about it but I look at my bowl of shredded wheat and give him the finger.
Ongoing Market Manipulation.
April 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ongoing Market Manipulation.
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MAGA be like "he has a plan, he's playing chess not checkers" and the whole time he's literally just playing golf.
April 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
MAGA be like "he has a plan, he's playing chess not checkers" and the whole time he's literally just playing golf.
On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/h4tV2h2A
Join me on April 5th
app.sosha.ai
March 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/h4tV2h2A
let him keep talking
Pete Hegseth: "Nobody is texting war plans. Well I noticed this morning, out came something that doesn't look like war plans. And as a matter of fact, they even changed the title to 'attack plans,' because they know it's not war plans."
March 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
let him keep talking
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Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.
March 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.
L'État, c'est moi
February 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
L'État, c'est moi
Spoiler Alert: He’s going to be confirmed by a 51-50 vote.
51 cowardly Republican Senators.
51 cowardly Republican Senators.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the top US health agency, faces grilling from Senate Democrats and Republicans over his views on vaccines, abortion, and potential conflicts of interest reut.rs/3CBFzFS
Trump health pick Kennedy comes under US Senate scrutiny over vaccine, abortion views
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick to lead the top U.S. health agency, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, where he is expected to face a grilling over his views on vaccines and abortion.
reut.rs
January 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Spoiler Alert: He’s going to be confirmed by a 51-50 vote.
51 cowardly Republican Senators.
51 cowardly Republican Senators.
Folks with dog(s) for profile pics will get an instant follow.
January 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Folks with dog(s) for profile pics will get an instant follow.
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Dr. King spread a message of justice and persisted in the face of hatred.
His legacy calls us to serve each other and to continue striving towards a more inclusive and united Minnesota.
His legacy calls us to serve each other and to continue striving towards a more inclusive and united Minnesota.
January 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Dr. King spread a message of justice and persisted in the face of hatred.
His legacy calls us to serve each other and to continue striving towards a more inclusive and united Minnesota.
His legacy calls us to serve each other and to continue striving towards a more inclusive and united Minnesota.
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