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The whole bit with the hitchhiker being condensed into that woman at the pool was substantial edit and an improvement.

What’s going in Estonia?

Turns out I like Rosie O’Donnell more than I thought. Good for her. Bad for us she left behind.

I hope the predictions of this piece is accurate. But I doubt it.

A quick way to restart the exodus from the pews is to make the church even more overtly partisan, rather than spiritual.

When was an evangelical in the 90’s and the 00’s the churches my family attended were frequently GOP rallies with a veneer of Jesus over top. This change in IRS policy that seems to have never ever been enforced to start with will make no difference. The gloom and doom of this piece that suggests that political entities will start dumping money into churches to stump for their candidates - I don’t think that’s going to happen, since the churches that would be game - are already doing it.

I had one of those bad boys for years. It was the best.

Back in the day I was on IRC with BitchX, so … nothing new under the sun?

Danny Glover has a recitation that I like too. The National Archives had a recitation of a much longer version of the speech with additional context: https://www.youtube.com/live/uRvQL8-Qokg

There are some ways that Mr. Douglass’s words are fortunately no longer true, but in many many many other ways are still very unfortunately still relevant.

I thought the Ohio Department of “Rehabilitation” and Correction was bad. A whole dollar for a plain text email of very limited length in the 21st century. What a shame.

Disconnecting incarcerated people increases the problems of institutionalization and further alienates them from important social networks that provide emotional support while incarcerated and will provide a higher chance of success with reintegrating following release.

Prison email/messaging systems are also an absolute gouge.

The people who profit from incarcerated people are scum. The government officials who have privatized any single aspect of the judicial system are also scum. “Justice” that generates fortunes for anyone can’t possible be a real justice for a society.

Yep, that’s my goal. I’m going to check all of these projects out. Thanks for the recommendations.

I’ve been shopping for some sort of cross platform (namely iOS / Android) service like this or Apple’s Find My Friends that I’d could have some assurance that this kind of content would be kept safe and private. The search continues …

“Republicans forced to” seem like a good start to many possible sentences.