Manatee

This is my wife’s hometown, population less than 75,000. There's a beautiful Holiday Inn we stay at when we visit. Over 5 unique Starbucks locations. Has 9 strip malls you can visit and get pretty much anything you want. Has a Chili's and a Mexican restaurant. No walkable areas at all. You need a car here. Walmart on the edge of town. Small towns like this are the backbone of America.

There is not a single thing that has happened in American history that even vaguely supports the notion that “black Americans created democracy in this country.” Democracy is almost entirely a creation of white people, going back to ancient times. That’s just a fact.

Mary Beard explains that after Jan 6th, classicists were so embarrassed by the ‘far right’ embracing Greco-Roman civilization that they began pushing the idea ancient sculptures were painted in an ugly way to try to make classical history less appealing to ‘White supremacists.’

Landlords will not see heaven

The juxtaposition of Odysseus holding onto a kore statuette with an Achaean (Ajax of Oileus?) beheading the full statue is a nice touch, contrasting Odysseus' piety with Ajax's offense at the Temple of Athena at Troy. Not all hope is lost for Nolan's Odyssey!

🚨 Jackson County, NC: Rene Pena-Diaz has been arrested of Murder in connection with the death of his brother, Jose Antonia Pena-Diaz. It is reported that Rene Pena-Diaz has an immigration detainer hold. This investigation began when the victim, a construction worker, was reported missing by co-workers, one of whom was the suspect.