Brett McGill

"No good will come of it."

-- Illinois state Rep. Tom McCracken

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My twitter header is Acadia National Park. My twitter portrait is brickwork at Frank Lloyd's Wright's Kentuck Knob, which is just a short drive from the more famous Fallingwater.

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@roddreher Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market https://t.co/1IFMFXHphZ

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@SeanTrende @dilanesper The Runaways' debut album (1976) lists the band members' ages as 16 or 17.

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Wordle 1,910 1/6

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My second ace. Different words, same letters.

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@Chris_arnade The small vs cap thing came from criticism of postwar British Conservatives who were not conservative. The small-letter thing is real while the cap-letter version is just a party label. In the US, we have Democrats vs democrats and Republicanism vs republicanism.

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@htmldon @tnsecofstate Does the state report results by Grand Divisions?

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@Variety People forget the Soviets had to take the missiles out of Cuba because the US beat them in the Miracle on Ice hockey game. That's why they called it the "cold war."

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Wordle 1,899 3/6

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Turn 3 was pretty much a forced choice. The first two turns cleared the board of possible solutions.

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Wordle 1,895 3/6

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Today was a great example of how eliminating possible solutions beats trying to figure out each letter.

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Tim Curry did the rock.

https://t.co/wl0QMy2DAN

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@SeanTrende Small-c conservatism is the habits and ideas that maintain institutions. Large-C Conservatism is support for a political party in the UK. It's a distinction that makes no sense in the US context.

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@luusssso The chlorine smell wafting through the building.

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Fun game for history buffs

https://t.co/F97igodEt2

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@FreddyLA7 For fun at a football game, it's tough to beat Wisconsin: those cheeseheads know how to have a good time. Autumn in Wisconsin is a bonus. Better than Michigan. And a short drive to Chicago if you can time it to see a pro game Sunday at Soldier Field on Lake Michigan.

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“3 years in and no Captain America or Thor????? What is Kevin Fiege doing 💀”

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@Eliass__Al Might be an etymology or foreign language thing. I see letter clusters in the words. I look for clusters among the remaining letters and try to eliminate them. Testing a lot of letters in the first couple turns can really shrink the pool of viable solutions.

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Wordle 1,867 3/6

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Don't try to find the solution; rule out everything that isn't the solution.

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@RBrookhiser Maybe WV voted for Carter over Reagan because he was a Democrat... or because he was an incumbent pres running for re-election, the pattern thru the 20th century. (Except Bush in '92.) WV voted to re-elect presidents it didn't vote to elect to the 1st term.

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@SidKhurana3607 Back in the 80s, I met a guy from Arizona who said his ancestors were Alaskan natives. He described himself as "Nanook of the Southwest."

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@Tyler_A_Harper It's just a manifestation of Conquest's first law. Faculty and admins conserve the structures and institutions they have learned to navigate. It doesn't make administrators "conservative" in any sense an outsider would recognize.