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Brian Lyman
@brianlyman.bsky.social
Editor, Alabama Reflector. Podcaster, Becoming Lincoln. 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Past: MGM Advertiser; Press-Register; The Anniston Star; Norwich Bulletin; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Politics, history, science, horrific puns.
His utterly credulous/callous acceptance of a single witnesses testimony that prisoners undergoing lethal injection with midazolam -- a drug *never* intended to create total unconsciousness -- would feel no pain revealed him to be a hack.
January 30, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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BREAKING: After a brief hearing in L.A., Don Lemon was released.
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I love this sketch so much that I got the T-shirt.
"Perry Como: Still Alive" SCTV S4 E10 1981
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January 30, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Wife, teen and I were watching Stripes last night, which has four SCTV troupers (Harold Ramis, John Candy, Dave Thomas and Joe Flaherty) and they're all good. Candy especially seems to be working in a different league than the rest of the cast.
January 30, 2026 at 8:55 PM
She learned the autoharp for that role. Brilliant actress.
January 30, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Maddening how hard it is to get Americans to understand the Kafkaesque impossibility of immigrating “The Right Way.”
January 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Prince, Carrie Fisher, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, Gwen Ifill, Anna Dewdney, Gene Wilder and on and on and on. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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January 30, 2026 at 3:30 AM