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Nocturnal Submission: Freestanding Edition 271

Rough year for the Arse, but a last-gasp consolation is their win in this morning’s (PDT) 2017 FA Cup Final. Petr Cech, Mesut Özil and The Gaffer, Arsène Wenger, here can’t help but show their elation. Good work.

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First Post: Saturday, May 27, 2017

Memorial Day Weekend now, the unofficial start of the season mentioned in the video clip here.

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First Post: Friday, May 26, 2017

On the other hoof, this also was a little bit self-involved. Hoo-girl.

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First Post: Thursday, May 25, 2017

Hey! What’s up? Well, that’s good. Anyway, did you come across this heartwarming story over your Preakness weekend? http://theweek.com/speedreads/700230/trump-once-almost-killed-racehorse-named-dj-trump Nice guy.

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Tuesday Sniping: Immortal Roger Moore Edition

The Bond for your 1980s. Knew his role, was neither overwrought nor fetishized. The pre-IPA, pre-Marvel-Comics Bond. Vale!

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First Post: Thursday, May 18, 2017

Some famous people died overnight, and here’s one of them we’ll miss: soulful. R.I.P., Chris Cornell…

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First Post: Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Hoo-boy. Here we go. Scrub over to 1:10 and out. This is a nice guy, right here. It’s the graduation day yet it’s all (always?) about him. Hoo-boy. Here we go. Nice guy, right here. Nice guy. He’s a good … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Sniping: Beyond-Human-Reckoning Edition

Which means if you have an obese guy with bad hair weaves standing in a Category 5 hurricane, all those plugs are going bye-bye, no matter how loud he yells on the Twitter? Is that how that works?

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Tuesday Sniping: Immortal Neil de Grasse Tyson Edition

Good speaker. Makes science accessible to all of us, but not as accessible as, say, the apoplexy of the partisans, the prosperity of the preachers. Oh, well. ‘Cosmic perspective’ — check it out! Maybe then we will all accept and … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Sniping: Mortal Jm. B. Comey Jr. Edition

Last presidential firing of FBI director: Archibald Cox, by Nixon. We know how that turned out, unless history is unimportant. Don Trump Sr. skates for now, and ’murrika always wins. Win-win-win-win-win.

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