I think this is the best way to think about being a politician: not just sticking your finger in the wind and doing what everyone already wants, but doing what's best and right and figuring out how to get people on board with it.

HILL HOUSE, NOT SANE, STOOS BY ITSELF AGAINST THE HILLS, HOLDING DARKNESS WITHIN…

I really need follow ups to this question. I guarantee that 35% of people said yes because Trump hasn't fixed the crisis yet, aka getting rid of everyone who is mean to him.

Wait... the only time I've ever eaten at a German restaurant was in Huntsville.

UVA's running backs have been out here trucking people all night.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. Tolkien's legendarium, especially (but not limited to) LOTR 2. Music theory 3. Local history Honorable mentions to astronomy and bourbon

I know literally nothing about Leopold I, but that second picture made me wonder if he was a Habsburg. (Spoiler: he was)

I was there and can confirm that it was indeed awesome and a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

CHOTINER: JOHN CAGE: CHOTINER: CAGE: CHOTINER: ? CAGE: This interview is over.

DJT: I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people WH: this business decision was driven by DJT: No I am using the state to punish criticism and extort people WH: Unitary executive theory implies that DJT: I SAID I AM USING THE STATE TO PUNISH CRITICISM AND EXTORT PEOPLE FOR MONEY

I watched Mississippi Burning for the first time and was struck by a scene where the FBI was arguing tactics. "Don't put me on your perch, Mr. Ward." "Don't drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson!" "These people are crawling out of the SEWER, MR. WARD! Maybe the gutter's where we oughta be!"

"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience." - Mitch Hedberg

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

This is the first post of this thread I saw, and I didn't make it three words before my mind started racing for context. Ira Glass? Philip Glass? Nope. The third Glass that my brain was able to conjure up, thanks to finally reading the rest of the sentence.

FIVE HOURS of Charlie Kirk Memorial in the midst of an NFL FOOTBALL SUNDAY??? lmfao this seals it, conservatives gave up football in the national divorce. the gridiron is left-coded now

These people are acting like we'll never have a Democratic president again. Or they assume Democrats won't do the same thing they're planning to do.

I know a fae trap when I see one

Ok, the Aladdin part got me good

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

Singing morbid 19th-century songs with weird four-part harmonies about death and dying. Paradoxically, they never fail to cheer me up.

i know i have sports brain because every time i hear someone called a man of faith i expect to immediately hear an excuse for something wild and see a nick castellanos home run

Congratulations fellas, we’ve all moved one spot up on the world’s most handsome man rankings

[the voice javert uses when he says valjean at the beginning of "the confrontation" from the smash hit musical "les miserables" based on the novel of the same name by victor hugo] bijan

being online right now feels like being harry and marv just getting walloped by paint cans to the face ... except it is posts

Oh that's good

this city is afraid of me. i have seen its true face.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Incroyable

Here's an interesting little Easter egg from this story.

Good for him. When I marched at Troy, we had an older trombone player named Woody, who always somehow ended up on the 50-yard line in the drill.

If you weren't watching Troy and Clemson before the half, please continue to not watch.

I just scared the cat thanks to that Troy pick 6 against Clemson Let's do this Trojans

Got a feeling it's probably all downhill from here

Didst thou think that the eyes of the White Tower were blind? Nay, I have seen more than thou knowest, Grey Fool. For thy hope is but ignorance. ... Go forth and fight! Vanity. For a little space you may triumph on the field, for a day. But against the Power that now arises there is no victory.

This is extremely my shit

Aww that's just my pet snake Reggie

I am in awe of this absolutely heroic chaw

I literally ordered some Christmas lights 15 minutes ago. It knows.

This but in opposite order

Newsom's office pulling a deep cut on this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0_v...

On the one hand, I think our capacity for cognitive dissonance knows no bounds. On the other hand, people tend to get mad when you point out that when Jefferson wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," it didn't apply to black people or women. So maybe.