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A Prime Opportunity For Resolution Is At Hand 6674236303_18d908d887_grainger-county-tennessee

A Prime Opportunity For Resolution Is At Hand

Burt Likko July 1, 2015

The wisdom of a sports movie and the insight of a litigator show that the best time...

Avengers, Culture, Wackadoodle, and Weekend Open Thread IFRL-Plague-Seventh

Avengers, Culture, Wackadoodle, and Weekend Open Thread

Jaybird May 3, 2012

It just means that my head and my heart tell me it’s 1945. They tell me that...

Sacrificing Ideology at the Altar of Culture IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-40098328662_a2e9ed911a_b

Sacrificing Ideology at the Altar of Culture

Mark of New Jersey January 6, 2010

Jamelle writes: “In a lot of cases, the aim of liberals isn’t necessarily to massively expand the...

The Talking Heads will Feed Themselves IFRL-TLC-Patterns-44985957522_ac8a982920_h

The Talking Heads will Feed Themselves

Erik Kain January 23, 2009

Kyle asks: What motivates the Limbaughs and the Hannities and the Malkins to take up the standard...

Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025it’s war logic hasn’t applied since World War II. Russia v Ukraine (or Russia v anyone). ISIS v anyo…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025The it's war logic hasn't applied since World War II. Humanity, especially in the democracies, is su…
Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationWell, we had ours at the Air Force Academy Field House and there were all of these rules to get on t…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationOh... yeah. I can see that. When I was a kid out in the sticks, my school had about 25ish kids in my…
InMD in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationThey were doing this when I was at UMD (Go Terps!) because every graduating class has something like…
Marchmaine in reply to Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationSeems cruel. Not like they talk directly about *my* daughter for 2hrs on each day. Plus, after a cou…
Brandon Isleib in reply to DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticIn my songwriting teens and twenties, I'd end up falling in love with a weird rhyme (or rhyme scheme…
DensityDuck on A Hopeless SemanticAs Keillor wrote, the sort of thing that soon slumps to such rhymes as ‘sibylline/porcupine’ and ‘ce…
Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine on Weekend Plans Post: The Last GraduationWait, two graduation ceremonies in two days for the same person? That's... I can't even imagine who…
DensityDuck in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/12/2025"What Israel should be doing is letting the civilians flee the war zone and get aid in other places.…