Dashiell Hammett really was operating on the porn star naming formula level: "What should I call this detective? He's an Op, but needs more. What's the name of that building I worked in 5 years ago? Ah right The Continental. I seem to recall there were metal bird statues above the door...falcons?"
You could follow in the footsteps of another Baltimore Pinkerton, Dashiell Hammett: quit when they ask you to break a strike, become a writer, and name your two most famous literary properties after features of a building on Calvert Street
Very interesting to me that only 38% of White Biden supporters believe that the legacy of slavery still impacts Black people today and only 35% believe in White privilege
This was 4 years ago and 81% of Americans surveyed for Pew's American Trends Panel indicated that they do not answer the phone for calls from numbers they don't know. On the one hand polling hasn't seemed completely broken the past few cycles but on the other hand how can it really still work idk
Homicides in Baltimore are down 36% and nonfatal shootings are down 30% year over year through June. In 2022 there were 334 murders for the year, in 2023 there were 263 (one was added after year-end), through the first half of the year 2024 there have been... 89
By the slimmest of margins, the 1980s beat out the 2000s for the next top 1,000 players of the decade countdown. Should be able to start the countdown next week.
This was the basis of the apportionment scheme for seats in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1867 to the 1960s. The function of this scheme was to greatly empower the Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland gentry of racist right-wing freaks while denying representation to the metropolitan areas.
Point of order Delaware is not below the Mason-Dixon line. The Mason-Dixon line separates the western edge of Delaware from Maryland. The Transpeninsular Line separates the southern edge of Delaware from Maryland. The Mason-Dixon turns down at the corner near the Twelve-Mile Circle
