Ahh, gotcha. I will not opine further then. :-)

Hell, I almost wonder if “a Marvel” is the best way his Boomer ass can articulate “a big-budget superhero project made by Disney.”

Lots of Pi cases on Amazon UK and other vendors. Anything specific you’re after?

He was a deeply damaged, deeply odd man, and he definitely had no sense of what was socially appropriate, but I have literally no idea if he took sexual gratification from it all or committed any crimes. He was the absolute poster child for “reasonable doubt.”

Wouldn’t let my kid sleep over, though.

Nobody’s “sure”, but there are enough records and accounts to be reasonably confident that among the many traveling rabbis collecting followers in Roman Judaea was one from Nazareth named Joshua/Jesus, and that he was executed for political activities.

That’s it though.

Beyond that, his story is largely a creation of his followers, some of whom were apocalyptically charismatic enough in their own right to keep an ember alive, and eventually it sort of spread among the Jewish diaspora and the military, and happened to be in (relative) ascendance with the latter when an Eastern emperor needed to rethink some political strategies.

After that, it’s largely survivorship bias, with every hint of writing about him being preserved, transcribed, recreated, or invented from whole cloth, and anything from his contemporary itinerant preachers being ignored or suppressed.

I think they’re fairly resigned to putting up with America’s bullshit, but they shouldn’t have to simultaneously deal with this racist nullification Texas bullshit too. This is EXACTLY why immigration enforcement is exclusively a federal domain, it has foreign policy implications.

Probably more the swing-district republicans saying, “Government shutdowns always get blamed on the GOP. You gotta take one for the team here. Take it up with Donald later.”

I could be wrong, but I think it’s 3. With the Colorado guy quitting (to specifically fuck over Lauren Boebert), they’re at 218-213 I think.

At what point do a few Republicans not running for re-election just say “Fuck it” and vote for Hakeem Jeffries? The margin is down to what, three flips? McCarthy being so thirsty for the job that he let them change the rules has fucked them over, because Ted Cruz et al made government shutdowns and other refusals to do routine shit such a losing national issue for the GOP that once in the job, even Christian-Nationalist ideologues like Johnson have to “betray the principles” of idiots like MTG, Gaetz, and Boebert.

According to the article, it was #5, for what it’s worth.

Opdyke was the first to admit what they did, his attorney Jeff Reynolds said Wednesday.

I do kind of wonder if “protecting the children” was an active activity, or if they were already cleared out and he just figured he could handle things himself. There’s big difference in my mind between putting yourself between a pissed off snake and a bunch of kiddos, and deciding you’re a badass who will take care of a snake somebody found and get them back into a cleared-out daycare without waiting for some so-called “expert”.

Either way, RIP and sympathy for the family, but you’ve got to be responsible when there are people who care about you.

https://archive.ph/yhf6D

During a meeting the following month, Barton said Kau was more explicit than anyone before. Barton said the man told him he needed to lose his locs, that they were “a distraction” and that Barton was “trying to push his own agenda and be defiant.”

BYU campuses are not healthy places.

Agreed, I don’t get this at all. Usually you can find some benefit to the analog format or luddite tech that makes it worth the hassle beyond pure personal nostalgia:

Vinyl sounds lovely in a certain way, and a pristine record on an excellent setup can even exceed digital quality.

Fountain pens require no pressure, are customizable in half a dozen ways, and can be quite nice objects in their own right.

Film can be similar to vinyl in having the potential for excellent quality, and generations of filmmakers hand crafted their works for the medium.

VHS looks bad, sounds bad, inspired no one & moved the art of filmmaking nowhere, deteriorates rapidly, has to be rewound, and has no efficient means of skipping to certain scenes. It’s awful, and I was deliriously happy to replace cassettes with DVDs. I guess the engineering around getting magnetic reel-to-reel tape into a somewhat user-friendly and cost-effective cassette is kinda cool… until it’s not.

So, in reading a few articles about this, SCOTUS’s reasoning, which was IMHO still fatally flawed and partisan given the procedural facts, was based on the idea that the 5th Circuit was only issuing a “temporary” stay on the District Court’s order, and that Circuits have always had the authority to manage how the case is going. It seems like, behind the scenes, somebody also told the 5th that they’re making them all look bad by taking so long, so they need to shit or get off the pot and actually decide something.

Therefore, a 3-judge panel of the 5th actually looked at the District Court’s order, already itself temporary and MUCH more in line with existing American caselaw on immigration, and said yes of course the status quo should remain, given the novel (and imho also terrible) arguments by Texas. Frankly, even if somehow we end up with an absurdly partisan final decision that says Texas has “invasion powers” right now due to the massive “army” of hungry Venezuelan moms asking for asylum, this would be a total rewrite of immigration jurisprudence, and any “conservative” court should have waited until they were ready to lay out an “originalist” interpretation of the constitution.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I think the quotation marks key on my keyboard is worn out.

I’m telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.

Yes! One way or another, via combinations of projects that the fans will argue over endlessly, they have retreated into a creative shell that is just about used up, even at the Filoni-an fringe, all while having an expansive universe that will allow for fresh storytelling that still has the franchise brand recognition that is apparently the only way any audience will ever see anything, at least according to the suits.

Aargh. My browser just wiped the long version. SHort version: People who think Shakespeare didn’t write his plays and poems. They’re virtually all classist assholes who think only a noble with an Ox-bridge education could write that well, completely ignoring what made Shakespeare different, the historical context in which he lived, how his reputation evolved over time, and how all of that is more than reasonably well-aligned with what we know about him.

In this case, I prefer George Bernard Shaw: “There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.”

DUUUUUUUVALLLLLL!

Well said. If I weren’t an exhausting pedant, I might have been able to replace my whole comment with something that elegant. :-)