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“The best historians of later times have been seduced from truth, not by their imagination, but by their reason. They far excel their predecessors in the art of deducing general principles from facts. But unhappily they have fallen into the
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> Six decades ago, Fred Schwed wrote a book called Where Are the Customers' Yachts? The title came from a story about a visitor in New York more than a century ago. After admiring yachts Wall Street bought with money earned giving
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> What's your rap these days? Most of us have one. Is it a disquisition on the stupidity of television, the rapacity of multinational corporations, how the Yuppies had it coming to them, the thrills of motorcycling, the perils of tu
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Now what my mother told me one day as we sat at dinner together, Of when she was a nearly grown girl living home with her parents on the old homestead. A red squaw came one breakfast-time to the old homestead, On her back she carried
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“And yet,” demanded Councillor Barlow …”what great cause is he identified with?” “He is identified,” said the speaker, “with the great cause of cheering us all up.” —Arnold Bennett, English (1867-1931)
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I like this one from a Christian call-in show. “When will people learn that God will never give them up?” https://youtu.be/FnQVkGcn7Vo
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Be seeing you.
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Q: Why is Ohio full of steelworks? A: Because it’s halfway between the iron of Lake Michigan and the coal of the Appalachians.
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“In the eyes of the Italians we Germans are merely low Teutonic swine. They exploit us like charlatans and suck the country to the marrow. Wake up Germany!” - quote by Frantz Funck-Brentano in his book Luther
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A great description from the 3rd century BCE: Now Dissembling would seem, to define it generally, to be an affectation of the worst in word and deed and the Dissembler will be disposed rather to go up to an enemy and talk with him than to s
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After his death, that studio was preserved exactly as it was and moved piece by piece from London to Dublin, where it remains on display. See here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/francis-bacons-preserved...
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Results for international tonsil-removal competition: USA 2 minutes, France 1 minute, East Germany 10 hours. (You see in East Germany you can’t open your mouth so they had to go in the other way)
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A Texas oil man heard that there were cars in East Germany so popular that buyers had to wait years to take delivery of one. He immediately sent a check to the Trabi factory. The directors, sensing a propaganda coup in the making, arranged
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I’ve seen a doctor for this and he mentioned stress and foods containing tyramine (pickled and fermented foods, preserved meats and aged cheeses, asparagus, red wine, chocolate) as possible triggers. See: https://www.webmd.com&#x
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by mjklin 6y ago
Christopher Hitchens had a good piece on why Washington and other politically-necessary cities are so insipid: https://www.city-journal.org/html/search-washington-novel-13...
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Perhaps you will enjoy this article from 1999, during the original dot-com bubble: https://www.newsweek.com/theyre-rich-and-youre-not-168562
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If there was panic, it most have been at the very start when the “news breaks” kept interrupting the music. I listened to the recording on vinyl back when I was a kid and after the aliens emerge the narrator takes off alone across the New J
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For TikTok users, Pat Mandziy plays a Latin-speaking Roman soldier pretty well: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe8UYgKH/
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There’s one in the mountains of Virginia too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...
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“The passionate state of mind is often indicative of a lack of skill, talent or power. Moreover, passionate intensity can serve as a substitute for the confidence born of proficiency and the possession of power. A workingman sure of his ski
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It’s odd hearing foreigners curse in English because it seems they haven’t quite earned that right. You know their mothers never washed their mouths out with soap!
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A good companion piece is Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory , which gave David Simon much of his inspiration for The Wire. Excellent film.
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That’s Numberwang! Let’s rotate the board
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In the same vein: “Criticism is prejudice made plausible.” - H.L. Mencken
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> it gets harder and harder to enjoy many movies and TV shows Well it’s not like they didn’t warn you! [0] [0]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuin...
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I learned Swedish by browsing r/sweden for about two years
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No “buts” except (legally): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Holocaust_denia
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Maria Polydouri’s last work of poetry, Echo Over Chaos , pondered the meaning of death as she was dying of tuberculosis in a sanatorium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Polydouri
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A log cabin birthplace building kit for prospective politicians
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There’s an episode of Frasier where he wins a prestigious award for his work and he has a breakdown on stage: “I just wish I knew what the hell i was supposed to do now.” I believe it cold-ends right there.

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