So it's a daunting day already.
Anne Heche is being taken off life support, Salman Rushdie got stabbed in the neck, and one of my Kenyon acquaintances died unexpectedly (and I suspect suicide).
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Aug 12, 2022 11:13:43 am PDT #16836 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Amy - Aug 12, 2022 12:28:43 pm PDT #16837 of 30000
Because books.
I'm sorry to hear about your college friend, Hec. That's hard.
DavidS - Aug 12, 2022 12:39:52 pm PDT #16838 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm sorry to hear about your college friend, Hec. That's hard.
He wasn't close. He was somebody I met at the first reunion, and got so notoriously drunk at the event that he had to be bailed out of jail. But he had been a reporter whose job had dried up several years ago. Not married. And I think he was just lonely and hopeless.
Calli - Aug 12, 2022 12:49:54 pm PDT #16839 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry about your friend, Daivd.
I am confident that Garland will act when he has an open and shut case.
I like this response to GOP moaning about not seeing the warrant yet. [link]
Which would not prevent him from running for governor of Florida, however. But, then, they deserve him.
Oh, please let Trump and DeSantis devour one another in a fight for FL power!
Consuela - Aug 12, 2022 12:56:32 pm PDT #16840 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Apparently someone shared the warrant with Breitbart? WTF. Twitter is claiming the statutes referenced on the warrant relate to obstruction of justice and espionage. The mind reels.
Cass - Aug 12, 2022 2:11:13 pm PDT #16841 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Disqualified for federal office works for me.
Theodosia - Aug 12, 2022 2:34:12 pm PDT #16842 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
The Breitbart version doesn't redact a lot of things that it should, like the agent names.
askye - Aug 12, 2022 3:16:24 pm PDT #16843 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Which puts the agents at risk from extremists.
It's interesting to see who of the GOP has been quiet and who is still trying to defend Trump or make this seem like it's no big deal/political persecution. Although I have seen the spin that since the warrant doesn't say the word "nuclear" that means it wasn't about nuclear weapons. It just says "Information, including communications in any form, regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material"
Sophia Brooks - Aug 12, 2022 5:17:11 pm PDT #16844 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
One of my former professors left Chautauqua 2 hours before Salmon Rushdie was stabbed and then shared the news that one of my other old professors (the one who introduced me to Brecht) passed away today.
Jesse - Aug 12, 2022 5:32:29 pm PDT #16845 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It was at Chautauqua? I was literally just trying to describe that to Javachik today. (Due to my current location being "Chautauqua-by-the-sea" [link] )