With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. -NO DM's
🚨 BREAKING: The Texas A&M professor who kicked a girl out of class for having a religious objection to transgender rhetoric has been FIRED, per Gov. @GregAbbott_TX
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Universities should NOT be woke indoctrination camps! 🔥
What's better: Jerry Tarkanian looking like a cast member from Barney Miller or his assistant looking like a drug dealer Kojak is about to bust at halftime?
A Waffle House at three in the morning. I ordered hash browns. The waitress, Charlene, turned toward the kitchen and shouted.
"Scattered, smothered, covered!"
I rose from my stool.
These were battle commands. Shouted across a room, fast, in code, the way a captain calls a line into position. Something was happening. I prepared myself.
"Who is under attack?" I asked.
Charlene turned back. "Huh? Oh. That's just your hash browns, baby."
I sat back down slowly. "...The potatoes have their own commands?"
"Mhm. Scattered means on the grill. Smothered's onions. Covered's cheese."
"And there are more?"
She counted them off without looking at a menu. "Chunked is ham. Diced is tomato. Peppered's jalapeños. Capped's mushrooms. Topped's chili. Country's sausage gravy."
I was silent for a moment. Nine words. Nine fates, for one potato.
In my homeland, a man earns a name through a lifetime of deeds. Here, a hash brown can earn nine in a single night. I had badly underestimated this country.
"I want all of them," I said. "Every word. The potato has earned them."
"...You want it all the way?"
"All the way. To give it fewer would be an insult."
Charlene shouted the whole thing back into the kitchen, the full litany, and the cook answered without turning around, and I stood again and bowed to him, sergeant to sergeant. He did not see it. It did not matter. I knew.
It came buried. Onions, cheese, ham, tomato, peppers, mushrooms, chili, gravy. You could barely find the potato underneath, which seemed correct, because by then the potato was no longer a side dish. It was a decorated soldier.
I ate the whole thing with a fork in both fists. It was hot and filthy and magnificent. I have eaten in palaces. I have never eaten anything that was honored this thoroughly.
So tell me, America.
You can shout the same potato into nine different lives.
Who wrote this language, and where can a foreigner learn it?
And the cook who answers in code at three in the morning. Is that a kitchen, or a war room?
"I don't wanna be a lifelong politician. ... That's why I've said that if I'm elected to the Senate I will serve no more than two terms, because I think the value of our system is that it's constantly renewed by new ideas, fresh.... "
@MarkWarner 1996
Dallas appreciation post 🇺🇸
The city completely shocked me. I don’t know why but I went there thinking it was just a huge place of nothing but I couldn’t have been more wrong.
There was so much American culture to see here and I saw loads, but I bet I didn’t even see 1% of it. Thank you to the Texans for your one of a kind hospitality
I’ll be back.
The nicest people in the country live along I-35 and they get progressively less nice the further away you get
This is a theory I’ve developed in years of traveling that hasn’t failed me yet
Last week, Anthony Fauci notified us he will NOT voluntarily testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though he had previously agreed to do so.
Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month.
“Elon Musk killed 4.5 million kids”
“Uh that’s defamatory as hell, bud, see you in court.”
“Hey uh can we just talk I uh just want to talk about this stuff uh let’s not do the court thing please”