CousinDruce

Mediocrity is not a mortal sin

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@BarstoolBigCat I know Room 40 wings when I see them

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@jtrain56 was excellent on today’s episode @adamcarolla @AdamCarollaShow. Really good guest and you both vibed really well. Would love to hear him on the show more.

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@charlescwcooke True price controls have never been tried

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@damintoell @txiokatu Their you go again dreaming of Gorgonzola cheese when it’s clearly Brie time, baby

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@DerekJGrossman Exceptionally good use of a classic Simpsons joke.

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@adamcarolla How much prep do you have to do before the race? Do you work the car out at a track or some similar car just to get some practice in?

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@neontaster And Mozart's come in many forms, like the mathematician Ramanujan.

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@drabtshirt True. Michigan had a good idea years ago where players would wear a jersey patch recognizing the legendary player that previously wore that number. Seems like a good alternative.

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@chucktodd Sure, FIFA was a standup organization beforehand.

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@JonahDispatch @SamCKx

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@iowahawkblog Fair enough, let’s go by bowl record last year:
Big Ten: 11-5
SEC: 4-10

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@Noahpinion Tie between Stevie Ray Vaughan and Led Zeppelin

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@JoeGumpHappens @ClayTravis Good call. Also Airplane to Airplane 2

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@KTLAMorningNews @KTLA @RachelMenitoff She was either so locked in it didn’t matter or she chose to ignore it. Absolute professional either way.

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@JonahDispatch longtime fan of your writing and the Remnant/Ruminant. I’m also a GLoP devotee.

One submission for the upcoming AMA: what is the greatest single season of television, and why is it Season 1 of 30 Rock.

Keep up the great work!

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Angela Davis is the most famous prison abolitionist of the last fifty years.

She built her name on one rule: no one should be caged for their beliefs.

Then political prisoners in communist regimes wrote to her. 🧵

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”

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@beyondreasdoubt Can’t wait for Italy to be beaten by… oh right, they haven’t made it since 2014

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@charlescwcooke @rkylesmith Is there a less original thought than “let’s be more like Nordic countries”?

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@moneymetalcakes @matt_valdez Solid call from the GW expert as well. You hoping Ho Cakes doesn’t become the new nickname?