Andrew M. S. Boyd

@boyscouts Eagle Scout, @tarletonstate alumnus, tech pro, writer

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

@juliamacfarlane As is often the case, you can blame the English.

https://t.co/sviFkqUF3b

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

You would not believe how much fun it is to pay video games with your kids

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

@politicalmath *They’ve fml

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

@politicalmath You might be playing the wrong one, the’ve only released the first one. Play them in order, you’ll have more fun!

[National Mall NPS @NationalMallNPS]

Beginning tonight through January 5, a narrative projection will illuminate the Washington Monument every hour on the hour from 7pm-11:30pm. It is the opening of a year-long series of events celebrating 250 years of American independence. Learn more at https://t.co/Ooj2t6PII3

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

"Being saturated & satiated with emotion & sensation, I went to bed & slept the sleep of the saved & thankful."

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

How is it possible that @Grokipedia does not have a "random article" button on the home page yet?

[Tarleton State Football @TarletonFB]

YOUR TARLETON STATE TEXANS ARE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 🔥

Texans win in overtime to improve to 11-1 and clinch a co-championship!

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

@21milkman @politicalmath A great example of Disney’s (forgotten) skill of sticking in wholesome wonderful Easter eggs for the adults watching along with the children.

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

The new version of “write a letter and put it in a desk drawer” is “write a post on @X and then spam the backspace key until it’s gone”

[Adrian @blagojevism]

Say what you will about the Obama Center (Templum Obamaeanum), only a few haters would deny that it is a splendid example of the late Harkonnen carceral style.

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

@WACsports @ACUsports @letsgopeay @UCAAthletics @EKUSports @UNAAthletics @TarletonSports @UTAMAVS @UWGAthletics @LRTrojans Very much looking forward to a renewed @TarletonSports / ACU rivalry.

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

@iowahawkblog @MattWelch Likely there are some good options in any of those places.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

Charlie died doing something I greatly admire. He debated anyone in civil, energetic form. It was fun and enlightening even when I disagreed (that’s the point!). It was what college should be and has failed to be for a long time, which is why they needed Charlie to import it to campuses. We now know too well, that came with great risk. Many young people will mourn his too-early death, and if the aim of the murderer was to end his ideology, the effect will instead be to solidify its following. And if that means more young people agree with his embrace of this raucous American form of debate and refuse to be silenced, good. Beyond mere political ideology, I know he loved Jesus, his country, his wife, and his kids. Lord be with Erika and the children, and let that part of Charlie’s life be a model for other young people, too. Rest in peace.

[Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech]

Can we just go back to a version of late night television with Craig Ferguson constantly getting hit on by hot chicks and making dad jokes to a robot?

[Jennie Taer @JennieSTaer]

EXCLUSIVE: I just spoke w/ Coast Guard Petty Officer Scott Ruskan, who heroically saved 165 campers in the Central Texas floods.

Before choosing to serve, he was a finance bro in NY.

This was his first official rescue.

“Honestly, I’m mostly just a dude. I’m just doing a job. This is what I signed up for, and I think that any single Coast Guard rescue swimmer or any single Coast Guard pilot, flight mechanic, whoever it may be, would have done the exact same thing in our situation,” he told me.

“That’s what we were asked to do and we’re gonna do it. Any one of us, if anyone else was on duty that day, they would have done the same thing as us. We just happened to be the crew that got the case.”

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Where to start? The leaflet referred to here—“A Last Appeal to Reason,” by Adolf Hitler—was dropped en masse on August 1, 1940. By that date:

1) Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy the Royal Air Force ahead of an invasion of Britain was already in its fourth week (on July 10, 1940, 21 days before the leaflets, 120 Luftwaffe bombers hit British ships in the channel, and 70 Luftwaffe bombers struck dockyards in Wales—from that date on, raids were staged by the Luftwaffe every day and night);

2) Hitler had already issued Directive No. 16 (July 16), which formalized plans for the imminent invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion); and

3) Nazi Germany had already conquered France, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and had begun (in July 1940) to make plans to invade the Soviet Union—with which it had signed a non-aggression pact!—and to murder tens of millions of its supposedly subhuman people (see: Himmler’s memo of 25 May 1940).

Cooper’s causation is false, too. Five weeks after the leaflet was dropped, Nazi Germany started bombing London and other British cities in a campaign known as the “Blitz.” But this did not happen because, to his great regret, Hitler’s friendly little leaflet campaign had failed; it happened because, by that point, Hitler had realized that Nazi Germany was losing the Battle of Britain, that the air superiority he needed prior to an invasion was going to elude him, and that a new tactic was necessary. In a sense, the Blitz was an updated leaflet campaign: the purpose was to turn the British against the war and leave Nazi Germany with a free hand to do more of what it had done since 1937.

As for the idea that Churchill magically had all the leaflets collected? The Nazis dropped five million of them, in literally every part of the country. So, while efforts were indeed made in cities to clean up, and the British government, indeed, didn’t like it, hiding them all wasn’t remotely feasible—or even attempted in earnest. Even in the 1990s, when I was a kid, there were so many of them in circulation that you’d see them at garage sales and antique shops, and old people would go get them from their attics to show them off.

To cast Hitler as Cooper does here—and, by extension, Churchill—you have to ignore that, when this leaflet was dropped, Nazi Germany had taken over pretty much all of Western Europe, and was in the process of attempting to destroy Britain’s air defenses so that, in Hitler’s own words of July 16, Germany could “eliminate the English homeland as a base for the prosecution of the war against Germany and, if necessary, to occupy it completely.” If you are able to read those words and buy their implication that Germany was merely acting defensively, then you’re a total bloody moron. https://t.co/09d9qZtroJ

[Texas Game Wardens @TexasGameWarden]

Texas Game Warden Command Post Kerrville–we are coordinating the search & rescue efforts of over 60 game wardens from across the state, boats, two helicopters & unmanned aerial systems operators. Rescues continue & we'll be here to serve our community for as long as we're needed.

[Andrew M. S. Boyd @amsb]

@HooverInst @nfergus @aroberts_andrew @uaustinorg Is this not available on podcasting platforms?