As to that middle ground—see my immediately below post, note these quotes from Dawkins’ essay, by which he expresses the point so eloquently, so humanely and so wisely:

This was one of Sparky Anderson’s last public appearance. Here he’s seen embracing his good friend Dave Winfield at the HOF ceremonies.

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She said my grammar is awful. Guess I'm not her typo.

Harry Truman: "They call it socialism if it benefits all the people." Just sayin'.

I heard some old friends at @PodSaveAmerica were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

Teen Vogue closed because they were bad and over time niched itself out of existence — same story for BuzzFeed and Vice — both of which shunned their more profitable roots, in favor of hectoring woke psychobabble

A university sufficiently progressive is indistinguishable from a lunatic asylum.

For fuck’s sake, will you please learn the difference between socialism and communism. Look up or shut up

The interviewer set a clever trap for Sweeney but framed it as a favor ("give you an opportunity") and she effortlessly swerved out of it. Two experts at social chess here. Your puny male brain isn't equipped to operate at this level.

Paramount Has Blacklisted Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” and won’t work with them. It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future. Under the newly appointed head David Ellison, Paramount has made it clear that it won’t do business as usual in Hollywood any longer. They’re trying to reconfigure the landscape — and it’s already taking a toll. @Variety gives insight into what’s coming at Paramount. As you know, Paramount executives have been outspoken about their stance on the conflict in Gaza. This past September, the company became the first major Hollywood studio to publicly reject a high-profile letter — signed by stars including Stone and Bardem — that urged a cultural boycott of Israeli film institutions accused of engaging in “genocide and apartheid” against Palestinians. Warner Bros. later took the same position. Sources tell Variety that it has gone as far as Paramount creating a sort of blacklist of talent the studio will not work with because they are deemed to be “overtly antisemitic,” as well as “xenophobic” and “homophobic.”

perfect photo of me at the queer jello wrestling shindig

19 for me!

How many of these have you seen. I got 28 out of 36.

“[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. “The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. “You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.” — A. Bartlett Giamatti