There's a Flannery O'Connor story about a pregnant woman climbing a staircase. At one point she runs into an elderly neighbor who rambles to her about how this day is the anniversary of Florida becoming a state and he thought she knew that because she's from Florida.
From the Project 2025 chapter on Media.
"As ... lawyer in the Nixon White
House, one Antonin Scalia warned that conservatives were being “confronted with
a long-range problem of significant social consequences—that is, the development
of a government-funded broadcast system similar to the BBC.”
Later, on the subject of PBS
" the percentage of on-air
programming that PBS devotes to educational endeavors such as “Sesame Street”
(programs that are themselves biased to the Left) is small."
It's baffling how many people who are squishy on abortion rights don't understand the driving logic of the pro-life movement. There is no moral middle ground with these people.
I read a short story over the weekend from '89 about a guy telling a story about a blind basketball player. The character (or author) seemed to think he only sees an empty black field and waxes poetic about it.
Thinking about Trump wanting JD Vance to play up “the hillbilly thing” and insisting he give his RNC speech in overalls, with hay bales and wagon wheels on stage, holding a moonshine jug “y’know, like Hee-Haw, everybody loved that show”
Maybe it was poor pathfinding that led the sniper team to going inside the building rather than on top of the roof. I think that's happened to me in X-Com.
Man, that takes me back to my churchgoing days.
What was the deal with the clear box around the drums? I never saw those again outside of Christian contemporary music?
Which is a bit tricky to pull off because it is literally the same kind of wound they made fun of John Kerry for getting Vietnam. Also you can watch him go down like a sack of potatoes in the video before six people dog pile him. Not quite the picture of bravery
