I'm so sorry for your loss, Siggy. This is a beautiful tribute to someone who was clearly very complicated and also clearly very loved.

Yeah, it's such a simple thing that I'm extra curious about what happened.

The nomination deadline was four months ago -- Bibi's chutzpah makes Trump's look like nothing.

I'm totally on board there. Also for public spaces doing it, frankly (or better yet, government should be blocked from it). But this is about addictive warning labels on social media platforms.

The full minute being cut out is just so egregious. Literally not releasing the video at all would have done less damage than what they did here.

Yeah. And six kids.

I was alive the last time a somewhat off-the-rails billionaire launched a political party, and other than one MN governor, that never went anywhere. Not expecting much here.

Just finished it yesterday, and I thought the season was fantastic. The use of voting to make things actively worse (especially once the baby was introduced) was brilliant.

Congrats! 1500 posts! Also, a book!

Seriously, congrats on putting this together and getting it published. I'm a huge fan of congressional poetry, and am glad to see more of it being created and put out into the world.

Just spent the last five minutes reading through the knife section, and yeah, this is fantastic and something that belongs in my library. Also incredibly well-written.

I'm sure he was paid good money to "lose" to Paul.

That said, looking at his background, it's amazing that he wasn't arrested before, or that nothing was said about all the warrants out for him in Mexico when this match was announced.

I subscribe to some territories, so I'll get notifications for posts in them, and am a lot more likely to see those than ones on the front page. And if someone's throwing clearly off-topic posts in a territory I subscribe to, I'm likely to take actions including ignoring the posts, ignoring the user, downzapping the posts, and muting the user (depending on how often and how bad it gets).

T-Pain also has a damned fine cover of this:

I still remember coming across "7 Words" on a random sampler CD (maybe an issue of CMJ?) and knowing I needed more of them.

Yup -- it was one of the Bachman books, and really good (and also very obviously influenced by Robert Sheckley and his "Seventh Victim" story and sequels).

We're also getting another of the Bachman books adapted this year -- The Long Walk.

Really glad to hear that! It's one of those books I've pushed on so many people -- just so damned good.

True, but that away/home split (3.23 vs 6.79 ERA) suggests that he's still capable of being a #2 on a rotation in any other city.

I think about this a lot -- I definitely have hoarding tendencies, and while marriage and other circumstances has helped me keep it in check, I also have a lot of shit. Having been an active ebayer doesn't help -- I keep things thinking I might be able to sell them, and those pile up.

I've got five boxes of stuff ready to be picked up by a local charity tomorrow, and as soon as it's picked up, I'll schedule them for their next bi-monthly pickup. Putting it on the calendar forces me to remember to keep weeding stuff.

Yeah, I've been asking that question a lot over the last couple of weeks. This sweep was a disgrace.

This bullshit and variants pop up all the time. Folks on the right love some fantasy lit, but so do folks on the left, and it's dumb when folks focus on it from their own perspective ("Tolkien's creating my sort of world") or the way it's done here, looking at the "other side."

Like, how could they write this article which talks about Thiel's Tolkien love with Panintir but somehow not talk about Musk and his obsession with super-socialist (but fantastic author) SF author Iain M. Banks? Musk names all his ridiculous space drones after those books.

(Yes, SF and fantasy are different, but it seems like a very deliberate hyperfocus here.)

In fact it is! Of course, it's also a little more common in London than it is around my area.