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Darby Lyons
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Retired English teacher, poet. Book and music lover. Midwesterner, kind of (Army brat, IYKYK), with Appalachian roots. MFA, Sewanee School of Letters. Senior editorial assistant, Cincinnati Review.
Because CNN has always been about creating shocking content more than about news.
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is the kind of drama we have in my family... someone rooting for the wrong team. We've never let my Mom live down the time she rooted for Texas A&M against Alabama (we lived in Tuscaloosa at the time). That was almost 58 years ago.😎
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Like most historians, I'm pretty immune to both doomerism and utopianism. But I have to admit, it takes a lot of effort for me to resist the allure of doomerism when I contemplate the future impacts of LLMs. What they seek to replace are the very things that make us human--thinking and expression.
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
And this is why I would never watch CNN
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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/9 George Santos is amusing because Americans are slowly boiling frogs; a sane society would see him as the subnormal psychopath he is. But he sells, and people like Tara Palmeri let him indulge in wild misogynistic defamation to make money from him, like a remora clings to a shark for scraps.
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
You are correct.
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
That's a great picture! And how was Hamnet? I loved the book.
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sock and Awe - Wikipedia
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November 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I recall there was a website you could go to that replayed this but in a way that gave you the sense you were throwing the shoe. It was so satisfying.
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I just sent an email to the WHCA. Asked if they realize they don't work for him, asked when they were going to stand up to his bullying, and told them Helen Thomas and Sam Donaldson would probably slap their faces.
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I love derby pie!
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM