I’m not going to answer the question directly, but rather recall the time in college an otherwise very intelligent classmate excitedly shared that they’d heard a “disco cover of Cake’s ‘I Will Survive’”
I’ve been thinking about it for 20 years
"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me
This 4th of July, take a little time to think about how the Left can try to reclaim patriotism from conservatives. Seems like the story of a country that cast off a king and fought a civil war to free the slaves is fertile ground given our present moment.
boomer relative posted this on Facebook five days ago
(It does not specify if it is the 45th anniversary of the start or end of the war, which lasted more than one day and ended 49 years ago in April)
the Bear is cool and all but if my local sandwich shop closed down and then suddenly reopened itself as an upscale bourgeois fine dining location I would kill myself
It is 4:29pm on July 3rd; if you are working right now you are either inexplicably the most productive you have ever been OR you have been legally dead for three hours. There is no in between
I have no idea whether Biden is going to drop out or not, but I have been through enough college football head coaching searches to know that "a spokesman vehemently denies the anonymous rumor" does not necessarily mean it's not true
rarely has there been a bigger gap between expectations and reality than the dog getting excited that I was getting my shoes on but I was doing it to go to the fireworks store
a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
A big compliment a buddy of mine (who is on here) gives me is when I cook something good, he'll ask if it is an @actioncookbook.bsky.social recipe or a Mark one.
