Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked… without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.

From the 1888 A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Unfortunately the rest of it is pretty trash.

Only a small fraction of the people abducted have been convicted of any offense, let alone those listed. Many aren’t even accused of any of those actions (e.g. overstaying a visa does not require fraud or evasion)

solid majority of the popular vote

narrow plurality

6.022

What? They still sell DVD players: www.bestbuy.com/site/…/abcat0102005.c?id=abcat010…

I’m not sure where you got the idea they “acknowledged” this as their reason. It’s a wholly unsupported theory based on nothing but some random opinion in the NYT (although I do love the notion that this opinion somehow “got lost amid the excitement” as opposed to simply being uninteresting).

It doesn’t even make sense. You don’t need an opposition filibuster unless the majority of the party is “fringe” (straining the meaning of fringe). There are plenty of other ways to bury a bill or – worst case – excuse a couple defectors.

People probably mistakenly assumed the law was in good faith and would do something like ban hanging crosses around the classroom, not ban covering up part of your body. Calling head coverings “religious symbols” is flatly dishonest. Next up anybody who doesn’t eat bacon at every meal will be fired for forcing their religion on others.

This is just to say

I have eaten
the nuggies
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were definitely
saving
for dinner

Forgive me
they were delicious
so mushy
and so warm

–
Apologies to William Carlos Williams

I feel like there may be a subtle statistical error in judging the overall will of “Democratic voters” based on rough observations of attendees of a Mamdani rally.

Does work for Tampa though