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Less Than a Decade Prior to the MPAA ratedr

Less Than a Decade Prior to the MPAA

Clare Briggs April 23, 2025
Most Thanhouser Films were for General Audiences. This one, apparently, wasn't.
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Movie of a Fan Playing the Game catcher

Movie of a Fan Playing the Game

Clare Briggs April 22, 2025
We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher.
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Back When Patriots Opposed Kings Patriots Opposed Kings

Back When Patriots Opposed Kings

David Thornton April 22, 2025
Many revolutions have become dictatorships when leaders come to like the taste of power and find its...
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Somebody is Always Taking the Joy out of Life somebodyalways

Somebody is Always Taking the Joy out of Life

Clare Briggs April 21, 2025
"You know that that's not *REALLY* Hamlet. It's a guy in a frock."
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Pope Francis Dead at 88 Pope Francis Dead

Pope Francis Dead at 88

OT Editors April 21, 2025
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, a day after public appearances celebrating Easter and...
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Danny Dreamer Dreams of Treasure treasure

Danny Dreamer Dreams of Treasure

Clare Briggs April 20, 2025
Mister Jones is a shockingly good sport.
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Saturday Morning Gaming: Are you ready for Wrestlemania? wm41

Saturday Morning Gaming: Are you ready for Wrestlemania?

Jaybird April 19, 2025
For the record: I am not ready for Wrestlemania. It'll be a good one. Not a *GREAT*...
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Good Use of an Old Barn 2025-04-18 TDoRS C5111 (04.22.17)

Good Use of an Old Barn

Clare Briggs April 18, 2025
The Circus is Coming to Town!
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Canadian Leaders Debate Amongst Themselves Canadian Leaders Debate

Canadian Leaders Debate Amongst Themselves

Andrew Donaldson April 18, 2025
Some thoughts on the Canadian Leaders' Debate, the looming federal election there, the Donald Trump effect, and...
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4th Circuit Court on Abrego Garcia: Read It For Yourself 4th Circuit Court on Abrego Garcia

4th Circuit Court on Abrego Garcia: Read It For Yourself

OT Editors April 18, 2025
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson in an opinion for a panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Throughput: Telling Women They’re Womening Wrong, But In Space webb-STScI-01JR92AWMGEQPXGRBKDS6Q941D-2K

Throughput: Telling Women They’re Womening Wrong, But In Space

Michael Siegel April 18, 2025
What should have been an "oh, that's cool" space flight devolved into the internet's favorite hobby: telling...
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Crazy Aunt France France

Crazy Aunt France

Issac Faulk April 18, 2025
For the second time in a decade, France is positioning itself as the European broker between the...
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Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right Rosemary

Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right

Ben Sears April 18, 2025
We’ll never recreate hers, but this lamb tasted enough like Mom’s without being so close as to...
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Holing a Mashie Shot mashie

Holing a Mashie Shot

Clare Briggs April 17, 2025
A "mashie" is an obsolete term for what we'd today call a 5-iron.
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Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It Again triumphantreturn

Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It Again

Jaybird April 17, 2025
You always think it's the last snow of the season...
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Punchable Faces, 1914 faces

Punchable Faces, 1914

Clare Briggs April 16, 2025
The skates are a nice touch.
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Movie of a Man Who has Indulged in Too Much Black Coffee nothin

Movie of a Man Who has Indulged in Too Much Black Coffee

Clare Briggs April 15, 2025
I know that I, myself, can't touch the stuff after 2PM.
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The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego Garcia Abrego Garcia

The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego Garcia

Michael Siegel April 15, 2025
They are breaking the law, violating the Constitution, flagrantly ignoring a court order, and giggling on Fox...
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Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life 2025-04-14 Joy C8315 (04.12.15)

Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life

Clare Briggs April 14, 2025
Another one that could have been written yesterday.
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Panamanicans: U.S. Troops in Panama Panama Canal

Panamanicans: U.S. Troops in Panama

Issac Faulk April 14, 2025
This is creating the choke point that is the focal point of strategy and policy: deniability. Deny...
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