Chuck Barris

Spectating this online feels genuinely ghoulish.

First, because you know it's just going to keep happening again and again and all you can do is hope that the next one won't be at your kid's school / your church / local shopping mall / workplace.

Second, because people genuinely are waiting with baited breath and hoping that any mass shooter is one of their side's "bad people." People on conservative leaning sites are praying that it's a transsexual with purple hair and fifty piercings who drives a Suburu with a "Free Palestine" bumper sticker, and people on left-wing sites are desperately hoping it's a sixty year-old white male in overalls with a bushy white beard and a "Don't tread on me" tattoo.

The victims are just footnotes in the ongoing political battle.

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Isn't muscle, in n this case, a misspelling of mussel? I've always heard it was mussel shoals because of the number of freshwater mussels that were found in and around the shoals of the river.

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This is correct, but "muscle" isn't a misspelling in this case because the town was named before the spelling of mussel became standardized. "Muscle" was an acceptable way to spell the name of that mollusk at the time.

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Things were just heating up.

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Yeah, then LSU told Wade to

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I thought Alabama A&M had purchased the property a year or so ago.

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Their proposal was rejected last Summer. I doubt that the campus will eventually be bought by an HBCU, but who knows? There are only so many institutions out there that both need a former college campus and have the ability to finance the purchase.

In all seriousness, the location had almost nothing to do with why the college closed when it did. There was a long, long history of financial mismanagement, larger trends in higher education that are still affecting (and leading to the closures of) small private liberal arts colleges, and the effects of the Covid Pandemic.

I hope a new use is found for the campus soon so the place doesn't fall into disrepair. It could be used for all kinds of things if the facilities are maintained.

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But rather, love your enemies and do good to them,
and lend expecting nothing back

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Gaza proves this doesn't work.

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Which side of the Gaza conflict has tried it?

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It would have remained a local show had Updyke not made that call is my point.

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Wasn't it already on either national ESPN radio or XM satellite radio?

My timeline might be off, but I think I remember that.

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Has any one of you researched Germany in the early 20th century?

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Yes, I have. Have you?

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Can anyone prove his statements false?

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I don't know where to start disproving the statement "he wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy jews out that were destroying his country that were turning them all into gays” but it's based on ignorant antisemitic stereotypes.

As to whether Hitler was a "good guy" or not, I suppose that depends on whether or not you value things like religious freedom, freedom of speech, democracy, and the right to bear arms. Oh, and also whether you believe that people with birth defects deserve to be euthanized.

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What books were they burning?

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Everything from Hemingway novels to Einstein's physics papers to Erich Maria Remarque's books. Anything that questioned the values of their totalitarian regime.

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What was the Weimar Republic and what did it promote?

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The Weimar Republic was the German government from late 1918 to early 1933. The Nazis opposed it because it operated as a multiparty democracy and they favored a single-party dictatorship.

I suppose your evaluation of the NSDAP comes down to whether or not you're willing to sacrifice all of your natural rights and become part of a brutal dictatorship that could execute you for speaking your mind in order to make sure that the minority groups you hate are murdered by the all-powerful state.

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LSU's starting; it's beginning.

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Didn't you post this last January?