"Every man is the descendant of every king and every slave that ever lived" quote from the book Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran.

“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.

God I miss Bob Uecker so much

The most wonderfully patriotic thing I’ve read in a long time is this clear-eyed little essay from George Saunders. I encourage you to check it out and share widely nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opini…

“You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves.” — ​John W. Gardner​ via the 5-Bullet Friday newsletter (tim.blog/fbf) from @tferriss

Revenge is a dish best served cold!#XBracketChallenge x.com/i/jf/brackets/view/id/…

All the Way to Heaven by Stephen Alter. Excellent look at life in Mussoorie, India during the 1940's, 50's, 60's, and more. #greatread #india #himalayas

Check out user5483584893832's video! #TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZP8NmHyon/

Gonna be another fun show noon-2pm CST today live from the @lacoliseum on the @CivicMediaUS Radio Network! Plus our final of Go for the Green & Gold Text to win contest!!

Get yourself to @Marcus_Theatres and take your friends and family to see @JABOthemovie!! This documentary by filmmakers @seanhanish & @calibadger is truly a gem and presents the 1982 Brewers season and world series run perfectly. Well done. Must see for all Brewers fans.

For those who missed my interview this morning with @Acosta discussing the Georgia shooting and the comments from @JDVance, here it is.

I read this three times and still can't get over what an objective, accurate and remarkable statement this is. It deserves a retweet.

Always great to have family and friends visit

Lot's of reasons to go to #ElSalvador but @PilsenerSV and views like this are reason enough.

It's time for the @gruber_law virtual t-shirt toss! Repost for your chance to win one.

I'm "in nature," but I am on a public footpath. Would I be more "in nature" if I strayed off this path and walked among this habitat mix of wildflower and seed? Surely, to do so would be nothing more than a selfish, human-centric act?

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.” -Nate White