Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

at the protest on Saturday i saw someone with a faded "Read Noam Chomsky" t-shirt and that day i, in fact, had

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Open up this picture fully.

Then look at the surface of Mars.

Then look up to the top right.

Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.

Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.

That's Earth.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Everyone who didn't say Charlie Kirk was a saint should be doxxed and fired from their jobs. Here's why it's fine that Donald Trump is celebrating Rob Reiner's death.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Folks you may have been baffled by the “Kevin Costner presents the first Christmas” ad you just saw on ABC

And I am here to make it worse by sharing with you the official poster for this blessed event

Second-hand smoke being bad for kids was in the culture already by 1918.

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

I know I've stayed up too late when the cat tries to get me to go to bed.

I own five different polo shirts, and I work five days per week. This isn't rocket science.

Wife: "Honey, do you have a pocket to hold my phone?"
Me: "I have NINE pockets. I can carry your phone."
Wife: "It's not fair!"

It’s a real unearned W for all Gen-Xers that the teens use both “boomer” and “millennial” as shorthand for old people but have completely forgotten about us, the worst generation of them all.

Sad news for lovers of opening lines.

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