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@HistoryNevada Thats my great-grandfather! James Dingle Foster. He wasn’t really a “Reverend” though. Mostly a guy who found interesting ways to make money. 😊

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Found this by accident today. August 1965 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. That’s my dad, 2d from the right. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is center.

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RIP. https://t.co/WQkp2U6dmq

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@HistoryNevada There were Caesar’s patrons, inside, gambling, who didn’t know it even was raining. (It didn’t rain alarmingly in the Valley.) Then they walked outside & their car was garbage, buried under garbage. I was jealous of kids riding inner tubes down the street.

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@ProfRobAnderson Look sad toward end of class & ask if anyone has extra lunch they can share.

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@RexChapman I was always smiling goofily like that, while my sister looked mildly bemused.

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@RexChapman In “The Sound of Music” they dubbed Plummer’s singing voice. Here’s his real voice, singing “Edelweiss”. They shouldn’t have dubbed it - he’s good. https://t.co/WPWyjtK7dU

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There’s no point trying to have a discussion about what the voices in someone else’s head are saying.

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Sorta misses the point of requiring you to enter a code to use the coffee-shop restroom but I’m not surprised to see this.

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@studio4llc Thanks!

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Picture of my dad (on the right) from an old Las Vegas newspaper article - likely late 1950s-early 1960s - that a friend from LV just found and emailed to me.

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@OrinKerr @WilliamBaude @USCGouldLaw @BerkeleyLaw My alma mater. Congrats!

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@emilynussbaum Is it a guy thing that I barely remember the last, romantic, scene? Mostly I remember all the ways he killed himself. 😕

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@RBrookhiser Saw this today. It made me realize that you have to be at least in your late 40s (it was 12/31/83 when it all ended) to understand the reference. I wonder where the last of these will be....

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@gabrielmalor If you had quickly to prove you had received all standard vaccinations, could you? I believe I was properly vaccinated but I’ve no idea where such records are located.

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@SethAMandel Because tribalism usually beats ideology. It’s much more fun & requires less thought. And because for the most part, one’s professed “ideology” is more a matter of marketing & tribal membership than of a coherent, authentic approach to law, politics, etc.

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@OrinKerr @brianbeutler The “whatif” scenarios are useful only if tribal hackery isn’t so universal as to make it jaw-droppingly remarkable when someone in public life demonstrates a modicum of intellectual & moral consistency.

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@SethAMandel Potential Rule: When you want to preface X with: “I’m not afraid to say” the chances are good that X isn’t so much something you need to be “afraid” to say so much as X is something stupid to say.

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@SethAMandel As with all exploration, however, there is collateral damage to the natives. 😕