Day: September 16, 2022

From ProPublica: A Private Policing Company in St. Louis Is Staffed With Top Police Department Officers police

From ProPublica: A Private Policing Company in St. Louis Is Staffed With Top Police Department Officers

Jaybird September 16, 2022

St. Louis’ largest private policing firm — hired to serve the city’s wealthier and whiter neighborhoods —...

Special Master Appointed in Mar-a-Lago Document Review

Andrew Donaldson September 16, 2022

Retired federal judge Raymond J. Dearie, described "as an exemplary jurist who is well suited to the...

POETS Day: Philip Larkin

Ben Sears September 16, 2022

I’ve barely scratched the surface of Philip Larkin's public work but what I have read I have...

Sliding the Banisters 2022-09-16 Sport s093 Sliding The Banisters

Sliding the Banisters

Clare Briggs September 16, 2022

"Jest th' slickest banister you'll find most anywheres"

Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Dave has a thread! They’re trying to change the rules because I'm not currently breaking them. As we…
Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025"Nut picking" Imagine, if you will, one of the Sunday shows in the US. This Week, maybe. Meet the Pr…
North in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Probably the worst part of Trumps inviterate idiocy is how well suited and situated the strongman st…
James K on Pope Francis Dead at 88As an outsider, both to Catholicism and to Christianity, what I found interesting about Francis was…
North in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Sure. And you can point at them and scream all you want. But they aren't in power, haven't been in p…
North in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Yes, and before the Vikings and their thralls settled it Iceland was empty. Those original settlers…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025I haven't been following the protests. However we need to be careful not to read too much into them.…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Beijing calls out Trump's lie on the United States and China actively discussing tariffs. https://ww…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025To be fair to the Palestinians, I think that was true until very recently but recent protests agains…
LeeEsq in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Nearly all of the leftists rallying against Zionism and Israel for ethnic cleansing are going back t…