Ah, I've been misremembering - the other volumes were reportedly destroyed, apparently? Hm.

I think about the still-classified Vol II a lot.

well, I mean, didn't it have to be codified and promulgated in order to become authoritative? ha ha ha başak d'you get it hey-

When I landed from Dublin the other week, the NCL border control saw my maroon-Euro passport and checked bag and stopped me for some questions. Having woken up in Indiana and gone through four airports, his vigilance was not super appreciated.

oh god yes, "racially tinged". As if to say only a little racism, as a treat. Just lightly dusted with racism. Faint notes of racism, detectable only to a trained sommelier.

"Sorry, but I'm waiting on Sue Gray's report to tell me whether or not this obviously racist thing was racist, for now I shall invent terms like 'racially provocative'...."

and like. The rhetorical implication that the public is a criminal court, and racism is a crime. How strange, to pretend that racism has a mens rea that must be proven, rather than being something we can/should conclude based on our eyes and ears...

By the way in 2022, 49% of the US' new HIV infections were in the South. So, even to the extent that World AIDS Day *is* an awareness day, this move especially risks harm to Republicans' *own* voters and communities.

... As usual.

It's a trade item - give it a whipped dream and trade it with someone.

“The opaque REF pause will continue until morale improves….”

Goddamn, this is a book review. Why am I emotional. This is a *book review* why am I crying-