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Just because it's a dumb joke: "where is the impregnable Isle of Lesbos?"

Not sure I shared this here earlier. My buddies and I had a good time with this one over the weekend. IFKYK about Swan Lake. Really not sure why Xi felt he needed to make this point about their relationship.

This is a hmmm...

We need to lower the temperature in our politics because every weekend a time-traveler arrives to try to... oh wait. Also, the gun strokes will lose it over identifying the long gun that was generated by AI as a shotgun.

FTR, I don't mean it sexually.

spell check got me there. infantilize is the word I was going for. Which for some reason MTF's spell checker dislikes https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infantilize

One part of it to know is that the Anatolian peninsula used to have large Greek populations but they were all driven off after the Ottoman Empire was dissolved following WW1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Minor_Greeks Others can speak to the history of this horrible event better than that. A lot of them moved to Australia as I understand it.

Probably for the best that Europe arms up so there is a democratic bulwark against MAGA and Putin fascism.

Nerf in a professional office initializes the workforce.

Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson were absent unfortunately.

Jack White is a very dry wit. I think Eminem's bolt on appearance was meh. Jeff Daniels was pretty good. Shout out to the two ladies whose show that is normally. They were good. The lady who was serving as his assistant at the show is a cutie. She captured Michigan-chick-stressed-out-by-situation very well. If we are going to have Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Jack White as the go to celebrities, Jack is my favorite.

FTR, I don't think her mom's prostitution prevented her from learning how to hit but it didn't help.

Was going through corporate training and they identified their anti-Human trafficking policy and it stressed that any prostitution was in and of itself human trafficking. Which is pretty interesting. Had a parent of one of my softball players who was a former victim of trafficking and she told me a bunch of her stories. She was a very attractive woman but her daughter was terrible at ball. Her legal record prevented her from joining as one of the assistant coaches but she actually was an expert witness for several anti-trafficking organizations and consulted for the DOJ (when they cared about such things).

If you were the team of hitting coaches for this team... maybe you should be shot into the sun.

6 runs a week is not a Bert.

oh

Its bad here in Northern VA and i wouldn't pay to do anything outdoors in this crap.

Pretty bad but not feeling this is the thing I mean, stroke a check and avoid having to testify. That's fun.

Tulsi out... Still not feeling like the thing though.

But the cowboy hat!

This is bad but I don't think this is it. Damning Pentagon leak reveals huge blow to US defenses

That plan is in the cooker for sure.

Been reading Mark Bowden's excellent "Hue 1968" and that MOP/MOE always comes up. One of the more interesting historical questions I came away with thus far: Walter Cronkite and Creighton Abrams had a conversation during Cronkite's visit to the Hue battlefield in which he came away and did his "war is unwinnable" report. Abrams was friends with Cronkite during WWII and Abrams had good press in comparison to the Westmoreland who was basically every French General during WW1 . Westmoreland sued CBS in the 1980s. I wonder if anyone did a more in-depth book on that Cronkite/Abrams relationship and its impact on the course of the War.

i.e., body count in Vietnam