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Hmm. No preview.
Patel and Noem were pictured in the life-size Lego car, as well as on the red carpet with Formula One CEO Stefano Domenicali (AP)
December 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Well, this was a fun word-nerd jaunt. It looks unlikely that Shakespeare minted "manager" in the modern sense, but because he was too *young.* The "words from Shakespeare" list I found put it in Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595 or 6, but
manage(v.) 1560s, "to handle, train, or direct" (a horse), from the now-obsolete noun manage "the handling or training of a horse; horsemanship" (for which see manege, which is a modern revival of it), from Old French manège "horsemanship," from Italian maneggio, from maneggiare "to handle, touch," especially "to control a horse," which ultimately from Latin noun manus "hand" (from PIE root *man- (2) "hand"). The extended sense of "control or direct by administrative ability" any sort of business is by 1570s; the meaning "wield (a tool or object) by hand" is from 1580s.
December 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Missed opportunity for "tails."
Trump playing tennis in white outfit, posterior to camera. Large tush enhanced by twist at waist.
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Turkey frame boiled with veg bits, strained, chilled, skimmed. Turkey bits added back in with brown rice, green lentils, and carrot. Stored in fridge to be doled out as lunches.

I'm not sure if it's "congee" or "congealed."
Solid loaf of turkey shreds, lentils, rice, carrots, and home-brewed gelatin occupying half of a plastic tub.
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I'm going to point to your "most" and remind everyone that it means "not all." There is a wedge that if pounded can take "most" to "some," followed by "a few."

And in some distant someday, perhaps:
"You know, nasty little fellows such as yourself always get their comeuppance." "They do?" "Always." -- The Mummy. Nasty little fellow appears skeptical, but is devoured by scarabs a few scenes later.
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Vectorbelly comic: Every sports interview ever. 4 panels. "You were sportsing pretty hard out there. A lot of sports happened. Why do you think you lost?" "We sportsed our best and scored points, but the other team was sportsing too, and they scored even more points." "What's your strategy for the next match?" "We need to stop the other team from scoring points while we ourselves score many points." "Now back to the studio for ten more hours of sports analysis." "My income is higher than most countries."
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I figured if I was going to be writing Second-Age fanfiction, I should read this, and am enjoying it twice over. (The second is the happy smugness over now having backing for character flaws I had already given Elros.)
J. R. R. Tolkien Edited by Brian Sibley The Fall of Númenor Dark tidal-wave cover art in black, grey, and red
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy did it best.
“In fact, you lucked out amazingly. That schmuck Oswald is going to fry for it. He came along at just the right time. It was a real Fortuna … Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” Banana-Nose sits up straight as the thought hits him. “You mean … you mean … Did Oswald really do it? Did he shoot before you?” “No, no,” Volpe is miserable. “Let me explain it as clearly as I can. I’m there on top of the Dallas County Records Building like we planned, see? The motorcade turns onto Elm and heads for the underpass. I use my magnifying sight, swinging the whole gun around to look through it, just to make one last check that I have all the Feds spotted. When I face the School Book Depository, I catch this rifle. That was Oswald, I guess. Then I check out the grassy knoll and, goddam, there’s another cat with a rifle. I just went cold. I couldn’t figure it out. While I’m in this state, like a zombie, a dog barks and just then the guy in the grassy knoll calm and cool as if he was at a shooting range lays three of them right into the car. That’s it,” Volpe ends miserably. “I can’t take the money. The … Brotherhood … would h Volpe swallowed again, and said, “There’s one more thing I oughta tell you. I went down to the grassy knoll, after the cops run from there to the School Book Depository. I thought I might find the guy who did the shooting still hanging around and tell you what he looked like. He was long gone, though. But here’s what so spooky. I ran into another galoot, who was sneaking down from the triple underpass. Long, skinny guy with buck teeth, kind of reminded me of a python or some kind of snake. He just looks at me and my umbrella and guesses what’s in it. His mouth falls open. ‘Jesus Christ and his black bastard brother Harry,’ he says, ‘how the fuck many people does it take to kill a President these days?’”
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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After an attempt or three to find music streaming services that aren't evil and have the music and podcasts I like, I went back to freebie Spotify and 👎 a bunch of ads as "Offensive." And they haven't returned!

Now I get this:
UroGist: A podcast for urologists.
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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...

Is this supposed to be an improvement?
NYT: Epstein Emails Reveal a Bygone Elite The disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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A worthy read, but don't do this part. Save a bunch of energy, water, and your eyerolls and just go read the good jokes in The Onion.
Q. AI is bad at jokes. A. Go to ChatGPT right now and ask for a joke about what’s going on right now: your eyes will roll out of your head and out the window.
November 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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If anyone else dropped out, wouldn't be the first time Ballotpedia lags a little.
Alcala, Costello, Evans, Favreau, LaFlamme, Mills, Platner, Rodriguez, Wood listed as Democratic candidates on Ballotpedia.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Copied paragraph was in the SmartNews version; the freebie from Nation is the front half of the piece only.

It seemed important.

www.thenation.com/article/envi...
It’s no stretch, at this late date, to conclude that nothing short of revolution, in some form, will be required to salvage progressive visions of a better world. It should be obvious—and always should have been obvious—that climate activists, a mere climate movement, can’t do this alone. What’s required, and always has been, is not simply a broader, better organized, more powerful “climate left”; what’s required is a far more powerful left—a resurgent, revolutionary left—a movement of movements, a popular front in which the total defeat of fascism and of fossil capital are understood as inseparable.
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Define "real job." Wikipedia:
Since 2011, Schlossberg has written for numerous publications and news outlets, including Time, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Politico, and CNN. He has also written op-eds for The New York Times, USA Today, and HuffPost.[18] In 2015, Schlossberg started working at Rakuten, a Japanese internet and e-commerce company, in Tokyo.[19][12] He also worked at the Japanese distillery Suntory.[12] He met Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, while visiting Sendai accompanying his mother on her duties as US ambassador to Japan.[20] Schlossberg returned to the United States in 2016 to work as a staff assistant in the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.[21] He had a cameo role in the eighth-season finale of the television show Blue Bloods in 2018.[22][23] Schlossberg began working for Vogue as a political correspondent in 2024 after graduating from Harvard Law School and passing the bar exam.[24][25]
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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The good news is that we can do this too:
At the same time, the Seven Mountains Mandate doesn’t depend on centralized leadership or formal institutions. It spreads organically through social networks, social media – notably podcasts and livestreams – and revivalist meetings and workshops.
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Painting of inebriated-seeming young man sneering and pointing to his palm in a demanding way.
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Speaking of stunning numbers, Georgia, which already requires voter ID and purges voter rolls on the regular, but which also has electronic/paper ballots to check against each other, just had these statewide results:
Public Service Commission District 2, Democrat won w/ 62.7% of vote. Public Service Commission District 3, Democrat won w/ 62.9% of vote.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Pass it on...
Headline "Pantries flooded with new people"... ... while the President hosts a Great-Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago. There is a large amount of gilt, and no feeling of guilt in evidence.
November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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*chuckle*
Ecosia search results: Unfortunately we didn't find any news for "Joel Osteen Donation."
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I hope he's paying "invasion" extra, out of his own pocket.
'The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’ Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. ‘They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That’s what I say!’ ‘Would you tell me, please,’ said Alice ‘what that means?’ ‘Now you talk like a reasonable child,’ said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. ‘I meant by “impenetrability” that we’ve had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you’d mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don’t mean to stop here all the rest of your life.’ ‘That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone. ‘When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘I always pay it extra.’
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Darn it, I have a hundred things I ought to be doing and instead I'm playing Find The Oil. So far and I'm quitting now:

Since 2023, the US has replenished the Strategic Oil Reserve by 50m barrels.

Wind turbines average 2 barrels/year in lubrication, and
WWEA report on installed wind capacity from 2022 and projecting continued growth to 1 mil megawatts by 2023.
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Well, DAMN, honey!

Via r/LeopardsAteMyFace
Can't copy-paste from this device. 3x Trump voter excoriating Trump.
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Me, when the AI tries to intrude on my characters' dialogue:
Eiwyn declaring "I will smite you if you touch him" to Word AI Nazgul.
October 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Next up: the Treebeard Paper and Stationery Company.
Elrond Cryptocurrency
October 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Row of ninjas holding twigs, explaining "We are a hedge. Please move along" and "Really, we're a hedge," to a boy and a stuffed tiger on a bicycle. From The Tick, Ben Edlund, original comic book series in black and white.
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM