Richard Nanian

Keats, Calvino, Keaton, and Costello. I comment more often than I post. “I have little to say but much to add.” — Gore Vidal

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“Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. . . . That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.” — Viktor Frankl

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@sum_dude44 @_TruthZone_ @EchoThruMe The “sports casual” and “racist” Venn diagram has a lot of overlap.

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@EDUARDO41514371 @dahni888 @ESPNNBA Because Turturro has been married to the same woman, Katherine Borowitz, for 40+ years, and she’s obviously not the mother.

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@tod_young @SarahLongwell25 @Roger_J_Postma The “deal” in this case — if it is what is being reported — is more like abject surrender. That’s one guaranteed way to end a war.

Cantaloupe Caligula thought Iran was no different from Venezuela. They’re all just places with brown people in them to him.

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@TheManFrom_X @speedyjerry @Acyn Why are you so determined to attack him? Did he turn you down?

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@speedyjerry @Acyn Oh look, a bunch of random photos. many of them badly Photoshopped or otherwise altered. For example, Buttigieg never wore a device to simulate breastfeeding his child. The bottom 80% of that photo is from an ad for that device.

Shut the fuck up, you utter mollusk.

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@AlexChaircheck @dieworkwear As DG has noted, most working men had at least one good suit for attending church and for special occasions. It would not be a “patched hand me down,” just a less expensive fabric with simpler tailoring and construction than the upper class wore.

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@TheMelbFlaneur @dieworkwear Great quotation. Of course, Baudelaire probably wrote it down in a brothel.

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@depressivehacks @dieworkwear What if relationship between dress and depression is symbiotic instead of merely causal in one direction?

(Good luck with your depression. As others have pointed out, struggling with it may be a mark of sanity these days. You’re not crazy, just aware and empathic.)

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@dieworkwear @almac_dev Because A.I. tends to use em-dashes often, some people — and even some school systems — now interpret em-dashes as a sign of A.I. use.

To which, as should be apparent, I say, “You’ll take my em-dashes when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.”

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@CoachAdamP @BillSimmons He was the only guy who could hit a 3. Then he took the ball away. And then he . . . what? Decided that burning clock and then taking free throws to virtually ice the game would be boring?

I’m neutral, but that was the dumbest play since J.R. Smith.

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@DumbAzzHell1 @TheRewatchables @VanLathan I’d have picked this moment. “Hi . . . Joker . . .”

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@KesslerLou @BillSimmons This tweet aged hilariously.

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@Jewelrybotanica @felabayomi @Suzierizzo1 Authoritarians certainly try, and they largely succeed among their own population. The Soviets kept cutting their revolutionary heroes out of official historical photos. Most Chinese now have no idea what actually happened at Tiananmen Square, how many people were massacred.

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@KathyMcQ1 @AlanBalutis @thedailybeast So because 59.38% of voters voted for Cantaloupe Caligula, fuck the other 40.62%?

Where is the cut-off? If a state went blue, 51.5% to 48.5%, does that extra 10.88% blue vote make the whole state more deserving of consideration?

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@seanrguy @TheStingisBack Asking “why?” in this level of 1980s Schwarzenegger film is like asking for nutritional information for a 7-11 hot dog.

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@richwiszardoz @Chris4Perkins2 @cwebbonline I do know some farmers. Granted, I’m on the east coast, where farms tend to be smaller. But personal anecdotes are pointless. Farm bankruptcies skyrocketing, private equity groups (see Thiel & Vance) buying them up , & control of our food supply being consolidated are not good.

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@richwiszardoz @Chris4Perkins2 @cwebbonline Nonsense. Most remaining small farms survive on razor-thin margins. The only way they are “generationally wealthy” is if you count the sale value of the land. But to cash that out, they need to stop being farmers, which increases the corporate monopolization of the food supply.

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@TheStingisBack Also, some years, “M*A*S*H.”

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@TheStingisBack I designed & teach a course in Literature & Film of War. The syllabus includes

Henry V
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paths of Glory
The Thin Red Line
Letters from Iwo Jima
Bridge over the River Kwai or Lawrence of Arabia
Dr. Strangelove
4 episodes of Blackadder Goes Forth (TV)

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@TheStingisBack If we’re only discussing films with battle scenes. Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory.” And I’m generally not the biggest Kubrick fan.

“All Quiet on the Western Front” (1930) is still amazing.

If battle scenes aren’t necessary, Renoir’s “The Grand Illusion.”