@real_dr_roy @McCormickProf Dude can’t even manage to be in communion with his own brother.
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@McCormickProf No he must be in communion with the Church of England
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I have no idea what Prince William really thinks about religion. I have a question, though, for friends who are knowledgeable about the Church of England. If the monarch is an unbeliever (or not a believing Christian or not an Anglican) can he or she nevertheless serve as Supreme Governor of the Church of England?
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So the 12-year-old accused of shoving rocks in the mouth of a 12-year-old girl so his friend could r*pe her was just released by a judge.
This is how you make repeat offenders
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@johngearysquash He acknowledges his genes are adequate. His aim is to seek genes with superior intellect.
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@Tyler_A_Harper The LW saga is a sad “they don’t love me, but neither do I” slo-mo train wreck.
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My Lindy West take was that West was a victim of political manipulation (do poly or you’re basically a slaveholder) and it’s super funny seeing Aham now try that tactic on the public: how dare you reactive negatively to me demeaning a female journalist via email, I support Gaza!
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@kittypurrzog Dude’s ignorant. Friday nights are for Costco, unless it’s high-school football season.
Saturday morning is for gardening, yard sales or the Farmer’s Market.
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100% chance this guy is living in the suburbs and telling his kids he used to be cool in 10 years
Murray Hill Guy@MurrayHillGuy1
How do people in the suburbs genuinely look forward to Friday night on the couch, Saturday morning at Costco, and call that a weekend? Like you really moved out of the city just to LARP as your parents at 34?
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@ChefReactions Smuckers is from Ohio. Sacrilege that they didn’t use a @Tastykake. C’mon Phillies. Krimpets are a Philly legend about to turn 100.
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@CountDankulaTV How is this a win for freedom of speech? Nobody was held liable for these crimes at all. In fact most of the public would of pled out because of the cost of litigation. You are so incredibly out of touch Dankula.
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The Afroman Trial.
-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.
This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.
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@asymmetricinfo @omzidar Princeton been resisting their Mt. Laurel obligation since Barbara Sigmund was mayor in the 80’s.
They don’t mind a Black Lives Matter lawn sign, so long as those Black lives are being lived further south in Lawrenceville.
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Im generally pro more housing, including in Princeton, but I think it needs to be done in conjunction with other fiscal and service expansions. there are a few issues this Washington post story missed - in my view, historic preservation isn’t the main point.
One issue is that many of the new housing units get pilots so they don’t contribute property taxes for something like 10+ years. Adding ~ 1000 people to a small school zone and not increasing any tax revenue to pay for it causes genuine congestion problems. If the schools and staff got twice as big when the local pop doubles, that’d be fantastic. but they don’t, and people reasonably don’t like that the drop off line takes forever bc it’s not big enough to drop off 2x as many kids, their class sizes have ballooned, kids play areas don’t work bc the space wasn’t designed for that many kids, and most importantly, school quality falls as the educational inputs don’t scale with population. Practically it’s hard to expand schools and investments for young people in a town with a large share of elderly people, several of whom tend not to support higher property taxes or increased school spending. So adding more housing beyond the recent increases (which I think increased the overall population by like ten percent again with little new tax revenue) is more controversial for some of these reasons. Moreover, there are also other pressing fiscal issues for the town to deal with - it’s spent a lot on various projects and it’s unclear how much is paid for and how much prop taxes in a high prop tax place will have to go up already to cover deficits - so adding even more people without getting more tax revenue (bc of pilots and the way these things are implemented) creates additional reasons for opposition.
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
In Princeton NJ, where the median home costs $1 million, residents are fighting a plan for 238 apartments on the grounds of a former seminary. Leading the resistance: historian Sean Wilentz. "We are being accused of being racist," he said. @timcraigpost: wapo.st/4rBmPtC
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@razibkhan Imma put Shakira’s 140 IQ above that bloke’s PhD.
The Hips Don’t Lie.
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@jpodhoretz Movies are fine; mini-series are even better.
But Award shows are for olds.
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Oscar ratings down 10 percent. Once it was the Super Bowl. The movies are going the way of vaudeville
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@McCormickProf I think Ehrlich never actually believed his overpopulation shtick. A true believer takes himself out early to make room.
We wasn’t merely wrong, he was a hypocrite.
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Noah Rothman gives Paul Ehrlich the obituary he earned.
nationalreview.com/corner/paul-eh…
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@thechosenberg You thought this was real?
Owns an entertainment law firm…
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@DefiantLs Absolutely retarded take.
You can’t change or influence any party except from within.
Party membership is voting in primary elections to steer the direction of the parties themselves and ultimately the nation.
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"You can’t be a practicing Catholic and be part of the current Democratic Party"
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@BridgetPhetasy Tune out. Watching it live is for Boomers.
GenX & younger: go to a club for live music or comedy. Watch plays, musicals & dance in your local theater. Support the artists, club owners & support staff who create a place to be entertained that isn’t your couch.
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Totally agree, I’m for cutting all the skits—they’re painful. Let the artists have their moment. Choosing to be an artist is accepting a life of endless rejection, let them bask in a victory.
Jada Yuan@jadabird
Hey Oscars producers, if you have time for a lengthy Bridesmaids bit and dumb filler presenter intros, you have time to let the winners give their thanks. It’s the best part of the show. Cutting off the mic after one person speaks (esp that Golden speech) is so, so cold. #oscars
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If you had to pick 3 foods to concoct the healthiest possible diet, what would they be?
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When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
@nytimes has repeatedly - and in a sense forthrightly - told us who they are. Once you accept that identity you’ll never be shocked.
Ian Miller@ianmSC
The New York Times is absolutely beyond saving. Insanity.
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@roddreher @megbasham It’s a dumb dust up over an even dumber premise.
Protestantism isn’t one thing. But more importantly, Wilson is retarded.
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I've spent most of my life as a non-Protestant Christian. I love my Protestant brothers and sisters in Christ, though I think they are profoundly wrong on some important matters. Still, I think what @megbasham says here is obviously true, as a matter of historical fact.
Megan Basham@megbasham
Look, I have and love friends of other faiths, but the United States was built upon a Protestant ethic and outlook. Others have come and contributed to our culture, and I do not deny that. But to claim that America’s founding, its self-understood identity for the vast majority of its existence, had been anything other than Protestant is a lie.
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