John Lepine Sr.

They had a large family, and they were very improvident and cheerful.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

"For there's nothing as powerful or as great
As when a husband & wife, united by oneness of mind in their thinking,
Keep their home together—a great bane to their enemies,
A blessing to their friends, & their renown is on everyone's lips.”

Odysseus' great praise of marriage.

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Tiffany is a medieval name.

[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

What's an ancient name that seems too modern when you read it?

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

@adesertdryad Literally means “place to be naked”

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Calvin Coolidge’s version is three sentences, max.

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

If Eisenhower delivered the Gettysburg address (published in 1957 by Oliver Jensen).

Hysterical stuff. They need to do this for every president.

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not punishments for Pearl Harbor (or the Rape of Nanjing, or the Bataan Death March, or Unit 731). They were a strategic display of American technological superiority meant to break the will of a foe that would have fought invasion with child soldiers.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the Pearl Harbor attack, what was done to Gaza is grotesquely out of proportion to the evil of the October 7 attack. What begins as a just cause is often corrupted by war’s self-righteous bloodlust.

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Copyright should last 21 years. Let the band make one last payday from a reunion tour, let the movie get a 20th anniversary re-release with bonus features. Then it belongs to the ages.

[VB Knives @Empty_America]

"Intellectual property" seems like a huge civilizational mistake.

I guess some type of brief copyright is appropriate, but certainly nothing beyond the life of the author or 20 years, whichever is longer.

Every book other than new releases should of course be avaliable online.

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Arguing about whether it’s “lucky” to be born in the west just depends on how you define luck. Statistically, more people are born in India than America, but also YOU could only ever have been born to YOUR parents. YOU could not have had worse “luck” and ended up Uyghur or Hutu.

[taoki @justalexoki]

this is an argument i will never get. "it's deserved" i didn't do shit to get born here. it's not deserved. it's luck. and most people are unlucky as hell

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Broke: DeSantis for President
Joke: DeSantis for Chief Justice
Bespoke: DeSantis to spend the next 32 years as a two-term Governor of Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and turn them all ruby-red.

[Chris Loesch 𝕏 @ChrisLoesch]

DeSantis is a gift to Republicans. He structured a plan that used every lever of power that was workable to make Florida more free and more conservative than any other state - then he had the balls to see it through.
I wish he could coach every other Republican governor.

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Not only this, but those declines will hit certain districts much, much harder. Huge swathes of rural America will face more and more closures and longer and longer bus routes to school. Failing urban districts will hemorrhage students while the suburbs tread water.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

I don’t think people have fully absorbed just how big the declines in student enrollment are going to be.

Eight states are projected to experience DOUBLE DIGIT declines by 2031.

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

This is how it's been for decades

If I was lucky in a typical 30-person discussion-format class, there would be two other people besides me and the prof capable of talking about the material

Oftentimes it was only one other person

Sometimes it was just me and the prof

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

@DavidRLepine American Italian food is also good!

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

True for Chinese and Mexican, but when I had Italian food in Italy it was like I was tasting real spaghetti for the first time.

[Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord]

A fact that lots of people have a very hard time dealing with is that the ‘Americanized’ version of a cuisine is almost always better

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

@GarrettPetersen The Arkansas Razorbacks upset the LSU Tigers a couple of times in college football at War Memorial Stadium on Markham St. We call these games Miracle on Markham and Miracle on Markham II.

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Turnpike Troubadors speak of this.

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

United States Counties where selling of Alcohol is completely prohibited

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

A funny little detail here is that while the Mellon Foundation may be ultra-progressive, Andrew Mellon’s grandson Timothy was identified last year as the reclusive billionaire and Republican donor who made sure the troops got paid during the government shutdown.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

The question, even if you are a progressive or agree with Mellon's worldview, is whether a private nonprofit—created by the children of a robber baron—should have a near total monopoly on humanities funding and be able to bend American arts and letters to its political will. 12/

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

💔

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

James Van Der Beek’s final message to the world is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to this! 🥺

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

Very sad to hear about James Van Der Beek’s death. If you never saw him as the Red Ranger in the “bootleg” Power/Rangers short film, today’s a good day to watch it: https://t.co/fafawAlakT

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

@Empty_America Mining the precious metals that she’s wearing, too.

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

@GarrettPetersen Not 2013!

[John Lepine Sr. @johnlepine]

We aborted 70 million babies and now our population is aging rapidly and there aren’t enough workers to support the retirees, so every blue state is going to make it legal for the retirees to abort themselves too. Culture of death.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

I'm starting to realize how rich societies are going to deal with severe population aging, and I don't like it.