Tim Bryant

Good at typing

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@nut_history Fenway Park

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@Citizens4STL The absence--not the lack but the absence--of a police response to this lawlessness is unacceptable.

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@lsterman Expired temp tags also indicate that the car's owner has no insurance for the vehicle.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Thoughts from the US

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@MuleskinnerUCM Strom?

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@SMB_Grove Eight wild turkeys spent yesterday afternoon scratching in the leaves along the jogging path near the zoo.

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@urbaninsideout Norman Foster's glass roof at the British Museum is spectacular.

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@truckey @STLCityGov I heard nothing downtown and I live a half block from a siren.

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@stlcsb The Railway Exchange is wide open at 611 Olive. Thieves have torn off plywood that covered a door and--again--have free run of the building.

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@KLShack Studio Gang!

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@publiceyestl If you know, you know.

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@schurchilld @CapeAir Fwiw, our friends at Cape Air were the people who flew me from St. Louis to Boston for the annual Lincoln Institute/Harvard GSD thing. (Hope the White Plains dog gets home asap. Oh, and you, too.)

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@deepblue3378 Learning to Crawl, The Pretenders

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

If Vince Schoemehl were still St. Louis mayor, he'd stand on the chest of Emerson's CEO until the company agreed to relocate its headquarters to downtown.

[Citizens for a Greater Downtown St. Louis @Citizens4STL]

How is this allowed? Forget City government, how can the civic community allow this? #Citizens4STL @JasonHallSTL @GreaterSTLinc @DowntownStLouis @enterprisecares @Cardinals @CommerceBank @stlcid @saintlouisdna @saintlouismayor @MeganEllyia @NealRichardson_ @ahuguelet @KMOXKilleen @GabrielaVtv @carolinehecker @DavidAmelottiTV

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@publiceyestl Yes, it's a great ride except for the trail diversion between Rootwad Park and the McKinley Bridge. Also, Rootwad Park is a mess.

[Tim Bryant @tbry51]

@publiceyestl The granddaddy of all "skyscrapers." Thanks, Louis Sullivan.

[Citizens for a Greater Downtown St. Louis @Citizens4STL]

Bypassing Downtown, the region’s job center, seems ill-conceived. ⁦@JasonHallSTL⁩ ⁦@NealRichardson_⁩ ⁦@journalismjenna⁩ ⁦@ahuguelet⁩ ⁦@KMOXKilleen⁩ https://t.co/ah4Qb4yTig

[Goodable @Goodable]

On this day 78 years ago, 156,000 soldiers landed in Normandy to liberate France during WWII.

Every year, French soldiers take sand from Omaha Beach and rub it onto the gravestones to give the letters a gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 American soldiers buried there.

[Les Sterman @lsterman]

@DanSTL77 And unshoveled sidewalks. It's difficult to sell downtown as a pedestrian environment when the sidewalks are impassable. Owners are not required to shovel sidewalks. This is a particular problem around parking lots and vacant properties.