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True, although Brown Jackson has been pretty obviously on he trajectory for years.

That said, if Thomas's mystery illness suddenly goes south, I do not know who is next up.

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Please let it be another non-Catholic.

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Catholic though I be, I say "endorse" to this.

Catholic thinking is increasingly weird these days. I mean, surrealistically weird. Reading even the left wing Catholic journals has become challenging. I'm starting to find myself suspect based on some of the people I'm hanging out with.

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Since we're referring to important legal opinions today, please note that the Second Circuit held that disgruntled fantasy baseball players could not sue Major League Baseball, the Red Sox, and the Astros, alleging that they would have done better in their fantasy leagues if the Sox and the Astros hadn't cheated.

Attorneys involved include SulCrom, Boies Schiller, and Cravath.

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Pastafarian.

“We are not saying that Evolution can’t exist, only that it is guided by His Noodly Appendage. And our Spaghedeity is extremely modest. For some reason, He went through a great deal of trouble to make us believe that Evolution is true--masking the prominent role of Pirates in our origins, making monkeys seem more important than they really are, generally keeping behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.”

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

Yeah, if you think that is weird, try reading Vermeule.

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That’s inadequate. It should be an openly atheist person. (How you gonna gird against inherent religious bias better than that?)

But no. That’ll never happen. Because as woke as this country may become, there’s one bigotry that’s always okay: Anti-Atheism.

Fuck micro-aggressions. Even as children, it’s been totally okay to call us immoral, amoral, bad people, bound for hell, people of poor ethics, suspicious, even evil.

Seriously. I still have to bite my lip because many of these people who believe in Men in the Sky will not deal with me if I admit I don’t believe in god.

It’s fucking annoying.

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I'd like to nominate my old law school study partner, the Congressman from Northern California, Jared Huffman. He formed the Athiest Caucus in the House, which I think currently has 3 members.

I found this
 

and it is better than any drugs

https://support.content.office.net/e...300ab3514e.png

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

John Eastman and Ted Cruz both clerked for Luttig the same year. Those chambers must have been a treat.

Song of the Day
 

We’re back. First, fucking yay for RT! Wishing you all the joy.

It’s snowing here, so I’m going with a little taste of the Caribbean. Is it trite to have a popular Bob Marley song for the SOTD? I don’t care.

Kid, what you got in that bag?
What you got in that other bag you got hanging there?
What you say you got?
I don’t believe ya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n6XdnVkOCc

Re: Song of the Day
 

Trivia: why did The Wailers (the actual original band) break up?





They were getting popular and Peter Tosh and Bob Marley wanted to tour Europe. But Bunny Wailer refused to "get on that big silver bird."

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Can you blame him? I try to avoid those flying silver death tubes myself.

For today’s SOTD, we have something to soothe what ails ya. Did you wake up feeling anxious, alienated, full of angst? Well, take a deep breath and let Art Jerry Miller smooth out the rough edges of your psyche with this soulful slice of instrumental mellow funk. You’ll be glad you did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roz9jy2TpDc

Re: Song of the Day
 

Haven't been on one in more than two years. Getting on one Saturday. Wish me luck.

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You're better for not having done so. I flew twice during Covid and it'll spoil you. Airports were empty. Like, almost literally. No lines. No waits.

Now I've heard it's crowded as shit.

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More crowded than pre-Covid IMHO.

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Good luck!

The SOTD is from the gifted South African singer with the beautiful voice, Miriam Makeba. Known for her “hit” song “Pata Pata,” I have instead chosen another song from that album, Ha Po Zamani. I love the lilting melody, and wondered when I head it what she was singing that had her so full of emotion that her voice was almost cracking. So I looked for a translation. Like many of Makeba’s songs, the uplifting music disguises lyrics of defiance:

I am drunk because of the Afrikaner white man
I am homeless because of the whites
I am a hobo because of the whites
Run, white man
We’ll come back
We’ll come back for our homes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNg3l_hTauE

Re: Song of the Day
 

Flew Delta 2x domestically and Jet Blue once internationally to a place with a negative test and vax requirement.

All three times, people were pretty civilized.

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Agree. Have not seen any screamers.

Song of the Day
 

I will admit that the most I ever really thought about Lou Rawls was when I would hear the Pharcyde song “Ya Mama” when Imani raps: “Cause you was beatboxing for Lou Rawls, in some bright red boxer drawers.”

Then I heard his cover of the Sam Cooke song “Bring It On Home to Me.” It starts with some typical Lou Rawls crooning for the intro, but quickly moves into a propulsive R&B stomp, with the increasingly dense horn lines throughout the song ramping up the emotion until the ecstatic finale. A good way to get Monday morning going. A little trivia - Lou Rawls actually sang back up on the original Sam Cooke version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA59XvgwGyQ

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I flew to TCOTU. Jury is out on the civilized thing, but my expectations are high.

Re: Song of the Day
 

i will say, despite the mandate there were people sitting in completely empty gate areas with no mask. I am not bothered by someone 50 feet away with no mask, but wondered why no one enforces the rule? Also, still lots of "nose don't count" people.

Re: Song of the Day
 

The people who can't figure out how to put a mask over their nose irritate me to no end. So lame.

Dinner last night at an Austrian place south of Prospect Park, Werkstatt, a block from my brother's apartment. Highly recommended! If I lived there I'd eat there every night. I'd be rotund and speak with an Austrian accent.

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What is that called now? I don't think Park Slope is South? All those areas surrounding the Park have been going through repeated renaming.

Anyhoo, I'd love to try it next time there. But be warned, in 2008 we had an exchange student from Wien. In before times we would visit every few years. We hit the jackpot as the family felt indebted and the dad owned one of the top galleries selling to museums in Europe. To say the least the man was connected and took us to amazing restaurants. All that to say, I have fairly high standards AND that cuisine is a sadly underrepresented one here.

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4 times? That isn't even a 3 hour flight. Southwest doesn't have free movies to pass the time?

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Cheeseburger egg rolls were quite strong at a place called the Elgin on 48th at 6th, I think. Recommended.

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Dude is old too, wtf is he taking? https://data.ibtimes.sg/en/full/5657...rity.png?w=980

But I am a big fan of taking people who are disruptive on flights and https://media.tenor.com/images/eea13...65f78002fe/raw.

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Wanna bet the women was hot, like Paigs hot?

Re: Song of the Day
 

I have a partner who does this (despite the firm policy explicitly calling out the issue), and I have tried courteous requests, less courteous requests, and requests through the office managing partner, and ultimately moved on to open ridicule. I am not alone, and every time I call him out in the hall way I get a thank you from three or four of the nearby secretaries.

He seems to think he is making some kind of point, but the only point I get is that he is an idiot.

Re: Song of the Day
 

Except for me, my office has been pretty much mask free since June of 2020, when it reopened for in-person coughing in each others' mouths, I mean work. And only 6 outbreaks.

Re: Song of the Day
 

We did about the same, although sparsely in office from 6/2020 until about 6/2021. Then everyone required in 1 day/week, then late 2021 2 days/week. No "outbreaks" but the odd case from time to time- although not clear if caught here or elsewhere.

Of course, in public, in Michigan, Covid no longer exists as a thing (except in hospitals).

Re: Song of the Day
 

I was in three airports over the last two weeks and 20-30% of the people just had their masks down the entire time. It's not being enforced anymore.

Re: Song of the Day
 

They actually annoyed me more than anti-maskers did. With anti-maskers, you knew they'd be thrown out of the place. With the "Nose Doesn't Count" or "I Can't Keep my Mask Up" crowd, they'd be right there in the checkout line, or across the table at a meeting, and no one knew how to handle them.

Do I tell him? I want him to pay his bill, so I don't want to upset him...

I'm just a security guard. Whole Foods doesn't pay me to be nose-covering policeman.

Re: Song of the Day
 

Part of the problem among the non-deliberate actors in the Naked Nose crowd is those dumb cloth masks people like to wear. They're heavy as all fuck (with an outer layer custom crocheted by someone's niece) and gravity does what gravity does.

They're also disgusting. I favored gaters, using ones that veered from women's hair ties pulled over one's head to actual ski mask gaters, or barring that, those black thin stretch masks that cover the face tightly. They allowed one to breathe, whereas the homemade mask, thick as a pillow, appeared to nearly smother the user, while being weighed down with all sorts of perspiration. It struck me as equivalent to wearing a heavy wool sock on one's face.

Re: Song of the Day
 

We've since learned that they are all worthless. Once vaxed I stopped wearing one outside and now religiously wear a KN95 indoors everywhere but my house.

But I've been told my black KN95 with hooded Denali is a good Vaderesque look.

Re: Song of the Day
 

Jesus, man. We're past the shortages. You should be wearing N95 or KN95 masks.

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I'd cross the room to avoid you if you were heading my way.

Gaters? Cloth? You like to send that "I do stuff half-assed" vibe, do you?

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Yeah, we have a new outbreak. Half my hallway is now out with Covid. I'm not going near the place for while.

This was completely foreseeable, but I guess the country has just given up on fighting it for the time being. Maybe once deaths hit 2 million.