Barton Jacka
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A public service announcement (if I may): A nutty person is a “wack job” (goes with “wacky”); a “whack job” is a Mafia hit, perhaps. “They chose this wack job to do a whack job and he screwed it up.”
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@HistoryNevada Thats my great-grandfather! James Dingle Foster. He wasn’t really a “Reverend” though. Mostly a guy who found interesting ways to make money. 😊
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Per a Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal article of Sep 29, 1933, Reverend J D Foster started the first Wedding Chapel in Las #Vegas, NV at his home at 513 South 5th Street, which is now called Las Vegas Blvd. bit.ly/2yN6DMC
Attached from the Sep 29, 1933 Las Vegas Age.
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Found this by accident today. August 1965 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. That’s my dad, 2d from the right. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is center.
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@HistoryNevada There were Caesar’s patrons, inside, gambling, who didn’t know it even was raining. (It didn’t rain alarmingly in the Valley.) Then they walked outside & their car was garbage, buried under garbage. I was jealous of kids riding inner tubes down the street.
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Thunderstorms west and north of Las Vegas, NV, with more than 3" of rain in places. resulted in severe flooding in town on Jul 3, 1975. bit.ly/2sFqWr1
It is sometimes called the Caesars Palace flood because of the damage there, including to about 400 cars.
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@ProfRobAnderson Look sad toward end of class & ask if anyone has extra lunch they can share.
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Professors: How do you usually handle tipping in your classes? I write my venmo up on the board the first day so students can express their appreciation for an especially well-delivered lecture. Other ideas worked better for you?
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@RexChapman In “The Sound of Music” they dubbed Plummer’s singing voice. Here’s his real voice, singing “Edelweiss”. They shouldn’t have dubbed it - he’s good. youtu.be/obEm1Mqm7C0
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There’s no point trying to have a discussion about what the voices in someone else’s head are saying.
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Sorta misses the point of requiring you to enter a code to use the coffee-shop restroom but I’m not surprised to see this.
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Picture of my dad (on the right) from an old Las Vegas newspaper article - likely late 1950s-early 1960s - that a friend from LV just found and emailed to me.
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Some personal news: This summer I will be leaving @USCGouldLaw and joining the faculty at @BerkeleyLaw. I will greatly miss my friends and colleagues here in LA, but I'm very much looking forward to this new opportunity up north. leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2019/05…
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@emilynussbaum Is it a guy thing that I barely remember the last, romantic, scene? Mostly I remember all the ways he killed himself. 😕
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Who is this wonderful Assistant Set Director who saved Groundhog Day??
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@RBrookhiser Saw this today. It made me realize that you have to be at least in your late 40s (it was 12/31/83 when it all ended) to understand the reference. I wonder where the last of these will be....
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@gabrielmalor If you had quickly to prove you had received all standard vaccinations, could you? I believe I was properly vaccinated but I’ve no idea where such records are located.
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@SethAMandel Because tribalism usually beats ideology. It’s much more fun & requires less thought. And because for the most part, one’s professed “ideology” is more a matter of marketing & tribal membership than of a coherent, authentic approach to law, politics, etc.
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The eternal question. If you ever find out please let me know. Signed, editor of a magazine that likes to debate ideas.
Lois Cayce@LBC1983
@SethAMandel I follow you for your music tweets & I know you or no one on twitter gives any shits what I think. I’ve read the twitter crap today. I’m an independent thinker & voter, I can’t figure out why conservatives, pro or anti Trump, tear each other down instead of agreeeing to disagree!
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@OrinKerr @brianbeutler The “whatif” scenarios are useful only if tribal hackery isn’t so universal as to make it jaw-droppingly remarkable when someone in public life demonstrates a modicum of intellectual & moral consistency.
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@SethAMandel Potential Rule: When you want to preface X with: “I’m not afraid to say” the chances are good that X isn’t so much something you need to be “afraid” to say so much as X is something stupid to say.
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