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Bart Barry
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Rolled in to Nazareth,
Was feeling 'bout half-past dead
The Pope leaning in to a microphone
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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A sign reading "Thank You for your attention to this matter"
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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"The message of this book, and of Chomsky's nearly 100 others, is: we are citizens of a lawless, violent superpower that has wrought incalculable harm but that nevertheless leaves its own citizens (for the time being, at least) extraordinarily free to protest, organize, and change policy. What we do with that freedom is all-important." If the American public continues to be deluded and manipulated by the myth of American idealism, there is very little hope that it will wrest control of its fate from the institutions that have always shaped and continue to shape American foreign and domestic policy. Everyone can make his or her own calculation of the odds of that happening, and consequently of our civilization's survival. In my view, the odds are daunting. I would say, though, that if the world does burn or blow itself up in the next century or two, Noam Chomsky will be wholly blameless. Very few of us can say as much.
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Some early hour sky above the Santa Cruz Harbor mouth
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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The Who Was President Back Then Challenge.

Episode 5: January 6, 2021
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A communiqué from President Donald Trump reading: THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT
October 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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This dropped out of the long ago last night.
Ticket stub. San Francisco Giants Division Series Pacific Bell Park $21.00
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Aussies are the best!l
Nell the Aussie. 12 years old.
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Olivier as the legendary Willy Adames in an early biopic:
Laurence Olivier San Francisco Giants Legend Willy Adames
September 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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He invented Captain America!
A sword and shield welding behemoth with an headband that says "America" fights off wraiths labeled Death, Pestilence, War, Starvation. The center of the shield our hero bears has a complex stars and stripes and eagle motif, surrounded on the wide outer rim of the shield by the words LIBERTY LOAN in all caps
September 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Type like a pirate day
A pirate keyboard. R, exclamation point, shift and enter are the only keys
September 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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When you practice politics the right way, you're sure to come up with some real bangers bangers
September 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Andy and Barney from Mayberry
September 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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This is what it looked like from my backyard at 5p.m. In the evening that day:
A deep orange sky above the patio of a house
September 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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An Immaculate Grid of guys I remember
September 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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A measured response
A Trump Truth Social post praising tariffs and the Supreme Court, which will surely see things Trump’s way, he says.
August 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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A Gadsden flag with the rattlesnake on top of a Cracker Barrel. The slogan reads, “DON’T SEASON MY FOOD. “
August 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Tell it to Cuomo
Painting a a blindfolded man with the text, “life’s too short for groping. Choose an objective and go after it
August 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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A screenshot quoting California Republican lawmakers, who write,"We will continue to challenge the unconstitutional power grab in the courts and at the ballot box. Californians deserve fair, transparent elections, not secret backroom deals to protect politicians."
August 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Yep
The cover of the book Calculus Made Easy
August 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Willie Mays statue
August 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Here you go:
Crazy Crab Action Figure
July 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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"Celebrating Elizabeth Cotten who was born over 125 years ago this week. Jerry Garcia was a big fan of Cotten's, so much so, that he did his own rendition to her song 'Shake Sugaree'. Although the Grateful Dead played their version 'Sugaree' for years and recorded it on a few different albums, Miss Cotton never received royalties for her work. In Miss Cotton's later years she worked as an in-house maid and nanny for a man who was a dead head. When the man figured out just who Miss Cotton was, he did everything possible to try to get Miss Cotton royalties for her work. The man wrote the record companies, the Grateful Dead organization and anyone else who could possibly help get Miss Cotton some royalties for 'Sugaree'. He finally wrote Jerry Garcia. To the man's surprise, he received a response from Garcia within days. In the letter Garcia was delighted to hear that Miss Cotton was still alive and he explained what an influence she had been on him and his guitar style. Garcia went on to explain that the royalties for "Sugaree" were under the record label's control so it was out of his hands but if Miss Cotton would allow him to record 'Oh Babe it Ain't No Lie' he would make sure that she received 100% of the royalties. From then until the end of her life she received a monthly check. One of Miss Cotton's friend asked her 'How you getting this money to buy all this new stuff?' Elizabeth Cotton replied, 'Some dead people out of San Francisco send it to me."
July 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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SF Giants logo surrounded by statements “I get my hopes up” leading to “I get disappointed “ leading to “I start to believe again“ leading back to “I get my hopes up.” The vicious cycle of fandom.
June 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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San Josè Giants at home.
Excite Field, home of the San Jose Giants
June 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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It’s a fun read, too.
The cover of Jan Potocki’s novel The Manuscript Found In Saragossa.
May 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM