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i wish i was/can't wait to be(?) balding. would/will fit me well spiritually i think. late 20s now so it can't be too much longer now

the 5-7 minute part of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles from John Candy listening to Ray Charles to the car lighting on fire is among the funniest segments ever put to celluloid. john candy da god

he also commuted the sentence of a city comptroller in IL who embezzled $53 million so she could buy horses. lol

biden commuted the sentence of a judge who went to jail for getting money to give kids lengthy sentences in for-profit juvenile prisons

with how easily digital records decay i've seen it argued that this could be the case

i just watched the movie deja vu, in which the govt has developed technology that allows them to look back in time 4 days 6 hours. thompson was killed about 5 days ago...

at first when i read about how much evidence he had on him when they picked him up i figured it had to be a total stitch-up but after learning about the guy it does seem like it's probably him. i have to imagine he just didn't want to be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life. otherwise i don't know why he wouldn't have just disappeared to some non-extradition country and worked at a hostel or whatever forever, especially knowing that he seems to have come from enough money for that to be a possibility.

knowing what we know about him makes all those takes about how it had to be a hitman or at least some ex special forces guy even funnier. turns out it's actually not that hard to kill someone with a gun

very cool, i'm due for a reread, thanks for sharing!

if you're looking for something book length, patrick seale's book Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East is a really fantastic biography of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar's dad, and it covers the levant from roughly the 30s up until the book was written in the late 80s/early 90s. it talks a lot about the early history of the baath movement, pan-arabism, the wars with israel etc. highly recommended

even if i was born into a radically different set of circumstances i would have the exact opinions i have now because my opinions are the right ones and with enough logic anyone would come to the same conclusions because they are simply correct

the biden admin is withholding grant funding that was promised to a climate org after they spoke up for a ceasefire in gaza