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Can wait to see someone bring it up in his canonization procedure, decades hence
May 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
That obviously isn't true, because betting markets are how you tell the future. So, clearly, they were saying something else, sir.
May 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“Right now, the music industry is running on nostalgia fumes. 70% of all streams are songs are old catalog and not new—not because they’re all timeless masterpieces, but because corporations see them as safe, predictable profit. Why gamble on the future when you can monetize the past?”
April 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I very much hope to see you support funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services to ensure these programs can continue to benefit communities in Nebraska, and across the country.
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
absolutely vital to the communities served by Nebraska's libraries. And in the case of our many rural/small-town libraries, there's simply no other way these things would exist. The community would simply have to do without, and would be so much poorer for it.
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
IMLS funds target the unique needs of individual communities, such as improving internet access to rural areas, supporting tribal libraries, ensuring libraries can offer interlibrary loan, programs for Veterans, businesses, and entrepreneurs and so much more. These kinds of services are . . .
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
. . . is a state that places high value on community—we take pride in standing together, and supporting each other. Community institutions like museums and libraries exemplify the best of this impulse. They honor our heritage, and give our communities the resources and space they need to thrive.
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My Nebraska-specific response, in case anyone finds it useful:
Dear —,

I want to express my support for federal library funding and to firmly oppose President Trump's Executive Order against the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

As you surely know, Nebraska . . .
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Had to look out up myself to believe it. Holy shit
December 24, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Nebraskan speaking: I had never heard of this until last week, and I had to have it explained to me three times before I understood
November 30, 2024 at 8:14 PM
During the Reagan administration
November 28, 2024 at 3:35 AM
"The modern private enterprise system ingeniously employs the human urges of greed and envy as its motive power.... Greed and envy demand continuous and limitless economic growth ... without proper regard for conservation, and this type of growth cannot possibly fit into a finite environment."
November 28, 2024 at 2:58 AM