“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
They worked to build up public support and held it through the early months of the war, before it all turned to shit.
They worked to build up public support and held it through the early months of the war, before it all turned to shit.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
Chicago
Chicago
“.. But Argentina is a different story.”
@colbylsmith.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
“.. But Argentina is a different story.”
@colbylsmith.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
The majority of “family farmers” aren’t working-class strivers. They’re affluent, politically connected businessmen who know when their next bailout is coming.
The majority of “family farmers” aren’t working-class strivers. They’re affluent, politically connected businessmen who know when their next bailout is coming.
Maybe there is a reason so many of us have a real “ichy” response to oysters.
It’s evolution telling us, “Don’t eat that!”
Maybe there is a reason so many of us have a real “ichy” response to oysters.
It’s evolution telling us, “Don’t eat that!”
"Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."
"Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."