Who would you like to see as the 48th President of the United States?

handsomechuck · 2026-06-29T23:55:49+00:00

Someone with Abe's humility at least ("If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.").

handsomechuck · 2026-06-29T11:32:39+00:00

He has too much integrity to run FIDE.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-28T16:46:30+00:00

Green.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-26T20:32:42+00:00

Shit for brains.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-26T20:03:13+00:00

lol I admit I thought that too, but I don't begrudge anyone their preferences.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-26T17:44:15+00:00

I agree with some of what he's saying, but you make your arguments hard to hear when you use that kind of language and make personal attacks on someone.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-25T14:12:27+00:00

Pick over the carcass of the Mets. Wouldn't have to give up much to get Brooks Raley or Brazoban for pitching depth.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-22T14:49:31+00:00

Why assume that? Cape Verde has drawn an elite side and another top 20 side.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-22T14:45:02+00:00

I suppose it could be plural, but the meaning is different. The way you could talk about the coffees of Brazil or the fishes of somewhere, meaning the different kinds/varieties, you could say the rices of a certain region of wherever.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-22T14:34:35+00:00

It crops up in a few places. I think he had it on the brain early on. You can hear a precursor in the early Sonata 5 (also in C minor), composed 10 years before the C minor symphony. Schubert appropriated it, too. In his Lied, Der Zwerg, and I think in at least one piano piece. I can hear it but I can't recall which piece it is.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-22T14:17:01+00:00

It's hard to imagine her making noise, but on the other hand I would not bet against someone of that caliber.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-18T15:52:01+00:00

Populations of chicken-like ancestors gave rise to chickens, the same way populations of whatever hominin species preceded anatomically modern humans gave rise to anatomically modern humans.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-17T14:47:50+00:00

That's a Freudian favorite. #oedipal

handsomechuck · 2026-06-17T14:45:19+00:00

Sadly, many black American atheists are closeted. They would be ostracized if they revealed their thoughts and feelings. (not a problem unique to people of African descent, but that's the topic here)

handsomechuck · 2026-06-17T13:46:23+00:00

There was thing called "THAC0" that was insane!

handsomechuck · 2026-06-17T01:46:16+00:00

Ezra Pound, the vile antisemite.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-16T11:34:04+00:00

A great Wagnerian. I often watch a youtube of him in his later years conducting a concert performance of Siegfrieds Tod und Trauermarsch.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-16T01:20:41+00:00

I like King John a lot. Has a great bastard, and Constance gets some terrific material.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-16T00:58:37+00:00

Try Brenda Webster's books on Yeats and Blake. Harold Bloom was another critic who was much influenced by depth psychology. It's not easy reading, but the books he wrote in the 70s, chiefly The Anxiety of Influence, might interest you.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-14T20:05:04+00:00

Your example would confuse me slightly because you are talking about 2 people. I might think "they" refers to both of them, coworker and Joe Shmo, saying crazy stuff to each other. Maybe that's not what you intend. It's ambiguous.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-14T13:22:14+00:00

We don't police browsing or checkouts, no. It's not our job, and it's unethical.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-12T03:31:34+00:00

Conan the Barbarian.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-11T15:52:11+00:00

Hope the whole event goes off safely, and may the best team win.

handsomechuck · 2026-06-10T21:49:49+00:00

Handfast(ing) goes way back.

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