Ah, the classics.

Ah. So this I can help with. Lawyers wear two hats. We are counselors and advocates. Most often, we’re just depicted as advocates. As a result, in conversations like this, people see us explaining how things work, and think we’re saying it’s how things should work.

Very excited for this!

I'm always amused by the way things like this show the cracks in our Federal model.

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"The NSW police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, said that while police had allowed the protest, neither he nor the premier knew it was taking place."

I actually like spiders, but I also never miss a chance to post this because it makes me laugh

Indiana Jones and the Possum of Doom

Poor little zombie mousie

Well, I'd've changed my name too

For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)

"… politics in itself is meaningless. It’s simply the part we see of people’s lives, hearts, spirits. And in times of revolution it can be thrown off in an instant." A beautiful piece from an accomplished writer.

Chilling.

Probably wise. Cassowaries are basically tactical emus, and everyone knows what happens when emus get annoyed.

Its a winning strategy, the ppl protecting the supply lines can focus on fighting

I am to Mamdani’s right on various things, and I would never tell other Jews how to Jew, but: (a) I would absolutely have voted for him happily over Cuomo and Sliwa, (b) the slander that he is anti-Semitic is wholly unsupported by evidence, and …

Every day will mark a point where more unpaid federal employees have to quit and find a job that'll actually pay them. Most aren't in positions where it's quite so obvious as air traffic controllers.

i gaze long into the abyss but it would never gaze back, im built different

"the eremitic life, done well, is self-defeating, in that the exemplary hermit soon attracts company"

This perfectly encapsulates the Administration's aesthetic.

Same old

You know what's surprisingly nice? A glass of cold ginger beer with a teaspoonful of balsamic vinegar.

I love this Inscription from C.S. Lewis, in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, to his niece, Lucy.

"While the country might seem to have a region in front of it to remold, in fact the real debate is actually an unattractive choice between two alternative ways to snatch strategic defeat from the jaws of victory."

#OnThisDay 1956: Victor Weisz cartoon in the Daily Mirror on the Soviet Union’s crushing of the Hungarian uprising. A pretty decent summary of why Eisenhower was incandescent with rage about Anthony Eden’s war over Suez…

National Review declares “Open Season on Jews” https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mamdanis-win-means-its-open-season-on-new-york-jews/

Eventually, the shopkeeper asks him what he's looking for. "Comrade, I'm just checking the obituary." "The obituary isn't on the front page." "Oh, the one I'm looking for will be." /END

Five times a day? That's sallat!

How fortunate a country Israel is, that has never suffered the indignity of being led by a socialist.

“CONGRATULATIONS”, said Cuomo as his voice squeaked and cracked like a crying teenage boy.

I'm gratified Mamdani won but I wasn't aware there were other elections going on and I'm a bit irritated by all the effusiveness about them.

Gift article: '“We could never be 100 percent sure she was done having kids,” says Liz, her third daughter. “Because she’d say she was done, and then she’d be like, ‘Surprise!’”'

Dick Cheney introduced the term waterboarding into the lexicon and if he doesn't seem so bad now it's only because the current vice president is such a terrible person.

I'm not convinced that Jewish Republicans are basically Democrats who fell for a line about 'safety' and got screwed. I think they are Republicans.

[ratherr beautiful image of a radioactive cloud ascending from deep below] "This is the Baneberry nuclear test, and it is not how underground nuclear tests should look."

Klingon High Council, I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails. Worf

I'm sure Chris Pyne sincerely acted in Australia's interest, but these things never look good. I feel that we should always regard these situations as *potentially* corrupt, and open criminal investigations into politicians who take jobs as lobbyists, "pour discourager les autres."

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

I am genuinely flabbergasted by such a humane and generous policy

Oh, FFS

Here's an Old English riddle for you: A wonder happened on the wave: water turned to bone wundor wearð on weġe: wæter wearð to bane

My "I'm not planning nuclear explosions at this time" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

Cosmic Bat nebula

If anything it shows that Mamdani convinced them that he's not much of an anti-Zionist or, more likely IMO, they feel he has an acceptably nuanced view about Israel. The anecdote quoted below worth reading in that regard: jewishideasdaily.com/824/features...