Twitter is showing that it won’t even try to distinguish hate speech from the efforts to oppose it.
Hey, all ya’ll remember oh, not that long ago at all, when I said that liberals would be victimized by censorship even worse than the right? Yeah?
Predicting the predictable is predictably easy.
There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
-Sarah Teasdale, “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Oh, I forgot, I did set one personal weightlifting record fairly recently.
I did 3 x 105 pounds overhead barbell presses. Not bad for someone at 160 pounds bodyweight.
LAX is the world’s worst airport.
It truly is. I’ve been to a lot of airports. LAX is not the bottom of the barrel; it’s the barrel after someone goes to town on it with a poop cannon. When I fly I deliberately avoid LAX if I can manage it at all, and the few times I’ve been there I’ve deeply regretted it.