Today in 'Displaying Cultural Ignorance. I have just learned that there is a song in the musical "Wicked" the lyrics of which [heh] are STUDENTS: O hallowed halls and vine-draped walls The proudliest sight there is (Male: Sight there is) When grey and sere our hair hath turned We shall still revere the lessons learned (Females)In our days at dear old Shiz (Males: dear old Shiz) Our days at dear old GALINDA: Oh-oh-oh-oh-ol STUDENTS AND GALINDA: Dear old Shiz-zzzz #Wicked#ChunderRoad
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: This is a grant for AIDS/HIV prevention in Mozambique, a country in Africa, not Gaza. The description is for services "in Gaza and Inhambane," which are neighboring provinces in Mozambique. .. The recipient foundation provides HIV prevention services in Mozambique
Shot "Typee" - Melville At the base of one of the mountains, and surrounded on all sides by dense groves, a series of vast terraces of stone rises, step by step, for a considerable distance up the hill side. These structures bear every indication of a very high antiquity and Kory-Kory, who was my authority in all matters of scientific research, gave me to understand that they were coeval with the creation of the world; that the great gods themselves were the builders; ...... 1/2
Kory-Kory's prompt explanation and his attributing the work to a divine origin, at once convinced me that neither he nor the rest of his country-men knew anything about them"
Post Conversation bryan metzger @metzgov JD Vance says on Rogan he thought Trump was killed when he saw the vid of him being shot in Butler, PA.
Says he went into "fight or flight mode," left the mini-golf place where he was with his kids, went home, loaded all his guns, and stood "like a sentry" at his front door.
Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @PadreSJ In 1938, Benito Mussolini closed off a wheat field & did a photo shoot showing him harvesting hay in order to portray himself as a common working man.
He was surrounded by workers who had been vetted as loyal to the party
Michael Charnick @charnick_wx Wild, wild stuff out there tonight. Looks like a thermonuclear detonation in the mid-level updraft column there. This is not CGI, just a bunch of moist air on the move
Old ne'er-do-well living in Southern Arizona.Sometimes uses profanity.That Terminator is out there, it can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop.โOne of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.โ -Aldo Leopold