Presented without comment, observed earlier today, this flagpole combo (on private property) at the border of Lee County and Scott County, Virginia maps.app.goo.gl/zmqaowDpPw4z...

Man, Tolkien is never gonna let C.S. Lewis hear the end of this one.

My tiny triumph today was sucessfully using, for the first time ever, the Jenny phone number loyalty card hack, at a grocery store in southwest Virginia.

The other big thing to remember about DHS founding is that the primary "business case" was '9/11 happened because CIA & FBI didn't talk to each other' and then neither was folded into DHS.

Two nights ago.

We went here Friday because we're in the area for a wedding this weekend, and these pics do not capture that absolutely everything is Alpine German themed, including the Huddle House.

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[Slaps hood of today's economic engine] "You can fit *so much* malaise in this bad boy!"

Except oddly enough at the various flavors & levels of "bootcamps" where you're not supposed to use either "I" or "you" E.g. from Full Metal Jacket "Sir, it is the private's duty to inform the Senior Drill Instructor that Private Pyle has a full magazine and has locked and loaded, sir!"

One of the world's first all-news stations was a thoroughly unconventional, shoestring operation that broadcast to Los Angeles from just outside Tijuana. Here's an excerpt from Fowler and Crawford's 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰:

He started the Iran war from Mar a Lago.

Every sub i was ever on had period of time where someone put together a few issues of an 'underground' publication. (I think the most common name was 'The Bilge')

"I know cover designers that use subtext, and they are all cowards"

a genuine DC bike commuter tip is to make friends with people who live to the west of you and checking their tweets for “DOOM” before you set out

And this is why I can’t get this graph out of my mind.

I'm less sold on gay Lincoln but maybe and if it's the case how it is possible it was the best one and the two worst

how is it possible the US has had two LGBT presidents and they were the worst two

I was going to be annoyed because I thought someone was attempted to start Discourse by recycling a years' old post - but no, this was from about 4 hours ago. So, entirely and rightly within the Discourse playing field. (even if it's a bit venerable by now as a subject)

Ah, now I see how my dad failed out of there after about a year.

Air friars have become quite popular in recent years.

This could have been us.

"May serve briefly as a boat, and rather longer as a shipwreck" Hilariously the driver has been charged with not having a valid boat licence. Didn't have a valid boat either, mate.

So much of the kvetching about fare free is that you could use $ for higher frequency instead- which isn't always politically realistic without higher ridership FIRST.

And as an economist, my gut is that if theres no incremental cost (and on our system where buses, though heavily used, are virtually never at capacity) then the optimal price is zero. The flip of why free parking is often bad - same principle.

I’ve got you:

Now if we could just fill in some of this gap on the Arlington side.

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Seriousl tho, the reporters could use the drywall contractor stilts.

How frickin dire must have been the conditions in Oklahoma that it shocked the conscience of Mark 'WW2 "Collectibles"' Fuhrman?!

imagine dying and your legacy is being the widely accepted worst guy at a guilty dude's murder trial

The only difference between this and an August is the humidity is still holding off a bit

Alas, James Earl Jones isn't with us anymore to make an Americanized version of this. He would pretty much own the first act, and theater people would probably just start naming it after him.

Who ruined the shipping industry? (It wasn't me) Made my hometown so sad? (It wasn't me)

the poster’s pilgrimage

fwiw the part that might make him mad is the contention that we should take a lesson from trump-- "you can just fire people"--and apply that to the trumpified civil service. a genuine New Pendleton Act reforming the civil service would be good... but we gotta get these nutjobs outta there first

If mid June 2016 had come to a point where Sanders had clinched the Dem nomination, and Trump the GOP one, Michael Bloomberg would have launched an independent '3rd way' campaign, and Trump probably still wins (and this time with the plurality vote in addition to electoral college)

... I suddenly want to write an eldritch horror financial crimes story.

sometimes I forget how silly 'Hercules: The Legendary Journeys' would get and then I see a fire farting purple dragon in all its 1990s CGI glory

As if one needed further proof that your spouse's/ex-spouse's career in no way transfers onto you.

What is the whole odyssey if not a penelope cruise

Black and white TV is dying. Color TV struggles to be born. This is a time of Munsters.

They did once stop Yglesias's blog for like a day.

HELEN OF TROY MUST BE PLAYED BY THE SEXY GREEN M & M

Almost literally designed in a lab to give @rachelnotrebecca.bsky.social an aneurism.

Mine was "command, helm, science, medical, engineering, and security." ❤️🖖