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@jimgeraghty Can a rehiring of Adam Gase be far behind?

@jimgeraghty @GregCorombos If there can be ‘hypothetical’ supreme leaders, there’s hope for ‘hypothetical’ pols like Irving Schmidlap (see Times of Israel headline)

Underrated life advice: Stop trying to reason with someone who's operating from emotion. Logic doesn't work on feelings. Wait for them to calm down. Then talk. Or don't talk at all. But arguing with emotion is losing before you start.

@CynicalPublius Bravo! I enjoyed your prose immensely.

@andyfalleur It’s who’s got disposable income.

Why are all the commercials nods to Gen X? It’s all 80’s-90’s references.

Eight o’clock AM on Saturday. Sitting on the back patio. Shorts, bare feet, and T-shirt belie the fact it’s January in the Florida Panhandle. It’s a humid 71° Fahrenheit, the kind where thick droplets drape the furniture, mailbox, and trash bins. It like they’ve been at the gym all night. The bird song rings more loudly than usual, not that I’ve sat here at this time of day for a while. The sun is about to creep over the next house and the pines to the east. Directly north beyond the lot line, a bobwhite suddenly thunders off the forest floor northward. Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal alight on a nearby tree. A cold front is due at midday. Its wind and rain will knock us back to normal morning temps soon enough. For now, feeling that clammy humidity, hearing robust bird song under the thin gray noise from Highway 98, I’m thankful for small, January barefoot pleasures like

Mont Saint-Michel is proof that beauty is objective. It is impossible not to be awestruck by it.

@varadmehta One of the best sketches evah!

This is the Jimmy Smits one, isn’t it?

I cannot emphasize enough the delight @fraveris brings to my timeline.

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." Henry Miller

@haltman 🎶 Out popped the buzzard and the o-riole… 🎵

Ouch

@haltman I remember when we Brewer fans lamented losing him to y’all. 🤷‍♂️

Fire Stearns

@Brewers What a lovely jersey! Is that good? 😊

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IKEA catalogs resemble Old Testament genealogies. Ektorp, Hauga, & Branäs might just be modern Swedish for Ephlal, Hezron, & Boaz. Suddenly I imagine Noah, Shem, Ham & Japheth assembling the ark with Allen wrenches.

Got a text from family wishing a happy St. Patrick's Day. After a brief update, it read, "We know you're so busy so we'll let you go now..." We do have some major life events going on, but we're not too busy for a call. Especially on Sunday. Do you project your own busy-ness onto others to avoid or cut short a call or visit? It's sad because we intentionally create open time. At least this "you're so busy" thing checks our thoughts as we call & message others. Does anyone else get this vibe from people?

Concur 100%. I read Anna Karenina in summer 2024 & consistently think of Tolstoy’s beautiful prose & characters. My wife is reading it now because she was curious at my enthusiasm for it. Same for The Brothers Karamazov earlier this year. Thank you Mr. Bottum for your observation!

@jimgeraghty Okay, is that a good deal on sauce or not?

@haltman Concur without comment.

Great World Series. Crappy outcome.

@jpodhoretz Thanks to your Karamazov references every other day I picked it up & now recognize the tool in this verse: “Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, you will not separate his foolishness from him. ” Proverbs 27:22 Pestles… never a good outcome in scripture or literature.