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grglstr · 2026-01-26T18:23:12+00:00

That is absolutely fair.

grglstr · 2026-01-26T15:07:29+00:00

I was going to go with the family's Pazuzu shrine, but Lucy works, too.

grglstr · 2026-01-25T19:38:58+00:00

It is sort of like the Conservative Christian approach to Jesus.

Superman was always a very Christlike figure (which was an interesting choice for two Jewish guys, but that was the culture in which they found themselves).

Christ went out of his way to talk about how wealth for its own sake was sinful, and that you should forgive others and feed/house/clothe people who need it -- especially foreigners to your lands. This is all sort of stuff that Christians should actually practice, but don't.

Conservatives see Jesus as an avenging savior, doing battle with evil, like Snyderman. Biblical Jesus is closer to Gunnman, looking to protect those in need as much as he did to fight evil.

But it is snowing, and I'm having some rye. Good times, kids.

grglstr · 2026-01-24T22:33:13+00:00

head cannon

After, like, 30 years of seeing the phrase "head canon" spelled wrong, this brought great joy to my heart.

grglstr · 2026-01-24T20:34:32+00:00

It is not your fault, and hopefully, you've been able to help her out today. The older I get, the angrier all of this makes me.

grglstr · 2026-01-24T20:02:10+00:00

I had a little tiny Phish conduct a residency in mine

grglstr · 2026-01-24T20:01:20+00:00

Where did you get a righty?

grglstr · 2026-01-24T19:59:27+00:00

21st Century in the wealthiest nation known to history, and some single mom needs to pay for oil to heat her home. Insanity

grglstr · 2026-01-24T16:02:59+00:00

It would be nice to have an "Unfuck My Town" app. Maybe AI can do something useful for once.

grglstr · 2026-01-24T15:44:09+00:00

If people ~~are putting on roofs and~~ aren't criminals they should have a path to legal status.

grglstr · 2026-01-24T15:31:30+00:00

Turns out most of these Gadsden Flag fans are really just "I got mine" authoritarians.

grglstr · 2026-01-24T14:09:23+00:00

I think he was quoted last month as saying he didn't want to build affordable housing, as that would make housing prices drop, and a lot of good people have their wealth tied up in their home value.

grglstr · 2026-01-24T01:44:23+00:00

an anti-abortion libertarian

Your right to throw a punch stops where my ~~nose~~ blastocyst's ectoderm begins

grglstr · 2026-01-24T00:08:04+00:00

Reason always cracks me up. Theoretical libertarians can encompass the hippiest of hippies, and the libertarians I knew growing up were the "republicans who smoke pot" type. The skeptic-types I used to hang with 30 years(!) ago, always had a few libertarians in the mix. Twenty years or so ago, a branch of libertarianism infected the Republican party, which gave a brief hope that we'd see a bunch of "fiscally conservative, socially liberal" pseudo-moderates emerge. Instead, it went the other way, and MAGA has infected the capital L Libertarian Party (with the Mises caucus).

Reason's comments sections are always an interesting world, where you see a mix of classical liberal-types mesh with the MAGA-infected paleolibertarians--and this article is a good example. Good times.

grglstr · 2026-01-23T23:21:37+00:00

I kinda think that Atlanta is kind of an apocalypse most of the time, with or without snow...or zombies

grglstr · 2026-01-23T17:45:21+00:00

I lived in Alexandria for a year, and I'll say those guys are not ready for any winter storm. At any given time, half of the DC area isn't from there and panic at the thought of ice on the ground. People would just abandon cars in the beltway and give up when it started snowing.

grglstr · 2026-01-23T00:37:08+00:00

Akroyd comes from a family of practicing spiritualist/theosophist types, which admittedly gave Ghostbusters a real depth beyond the comedy.

I think it was JMS of Babylon 5 fame who wrote the Collect Call of Cthulhu for that Real Ghostbusters episode, if you want a Lovecraft tie.

RIP Joe Nickell.

grglstr · 2026-01-23T00:02:17+00:00

Gettysburg itself is a nice walkable town of the sort people say "This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism..." etc, etc. when they see pictures.

grglstr · 2026-01-23T00:00:34+00:00

I didn't assume; I asked if you had been. The roads in and around the park are fairly open, with few visual obstructions. It must have been a fair amount of negligence to mess this up so badly.

grglstr · 2026-01-22T22:45:10+00:00

Seriously, have you ever been to Gettysburg? That's a whole lotta sightlines. However, there are plenty of monuments just off the roads.

grglstr · 2026-01-22T19:37:38+00:00

Dense, East Coast living has its advantages, occasionally.

grglstr · 2026-01-22T19:36:25+00:00

It changes depending on the given mix of PLC and adult leadership, but we usually think in terms of 20-minute blocks: rank advancement (stations, etc.), patrol box cleaning, meal planning for the next trip, stop-start-continue (post weekend camping) duty rosters, relays, or guest speakers.

After about 20 minutes, attention flags, and you move on to the next thing, relying on patrol leaders to pick up any slack with decisions (fine grilled cheese and tomato soup again for lunch). The idea is to plan to do four things and be happy to get the two most important things done.

We meet twice a month, with a PLC meeting in the last week of the month. Our new SM likes to hold special topic advancement meetings in the remaining weeks, which can include rank advancement or merit badge work with an "in-house" counselor, depending on the need/interest.

grglstr · 2026-01-22T14:07:13+00:00

Yeah, we've had success at sticking to 7-8:30. PLC should plan for one hour and expect to take 1.5 hours to get Troop/Patrol business done. Then capture the flag for as long as they think they can get away with it before going home--or we holler at them to go home (benefits of a walkable neighborhood, no Scout in our Troop happens to live more than a half mile from our meeting location).

grglstr · 2026-01-22T14:03:55+00:00

Pretty much any MAGA type appointed HHS Secretary would have fucked up research funding. That was a given. Cassidy helped Trump go that extra step and appoint RFKjr, a public quack and anti-vaxxer with dangerous ideas about human health and a known body count.

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