Politico was referring to the Broadway version of Urban Cowboy, not 9/11.

Y'all's crate is in the next flyover. But our ability to land them on trains is often exaggerated.

Found it!

Empty soup into pan. Stir in 1 can of water. Heat to boiling, stirring occasionally.
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1971

*looks for my Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup canapes recipe*

Otto squeezes his back theatrically & hands Shaftoe the hacksaw. Then he hands him a bottle of benzedrine for good measure. Shaftoe eats a few tablets, strips off his shirt to reveal splendid musculature, does a couple of USMC-approved stretching exercises, grabs the saw, and sets to work.

1484 A message came from Rohan to Buckland that King Eomer wished to see Master Holdwine once again. Meriadoc was 102 but still hale. He took counsel w/his friend the Thain & they handed over their goods & offices to their sons & rode away over the Sarn Ford & they were not seen again in the Shire.

'Halflings!' laughed the Rider that stood beside Éomer. 'Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children's tales out of the North. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?'
'A man may do both,' said Aragorn.

*grunting through gag*

"The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets. Organic markets, carefully styled ‘black’ by the professionals, spring up everywhere.' Epstein flourished in the shadows of those organic markets."

"At one point, the narrator of Gravity’s Rainbow reflects on how war allows traffickers of all sorts—in luxury goods, in sex work, in refugees—to thrive: 'Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. >

I'm just glad I was in a small fraternity in a mostly commuter uni. It wasn't as demanding of our time and money. Many of us were working blue collar jobs, and not living it up off daddy's money...
Oh shit, I've become one of the Four Yorkshiremen.

Was the first 50 pages like a free-climb on the Hoover Dam?

> There was something about the Edharian contingent that impressed people. Orolo had made us into stars. Lodoghir had seen the Plenary as an opportunity to take one of us down a peg.
#Anathem

Hey that's Sardukar singing!

HIRO: Of all the ~me~ and all the gods and religious practices that predominated in Sumer, only Asherah is still going strong today. A viral idea can be stamped out - as happened with Nazism [wrong], bell bottoms [wrong], and Bart Simpson T-shirts [under investigation].