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“The bid to bring the Summer Olympics to Boston in 2024 fell apart nine years ago… Many community leaders and residents were supportive of the idea, and some expressed disappointment when the bid was canceled.” — The Boston Globe, 7/24/2024

Rotary Cycling

No Blinker Merging

Allston Couch Surfing

Four-Hundred-Meter Dash (to the nearest Dunkin’)

MBTA Delay Relay

Swimming in Housing Debt

Mass Pike Marathon

Bragging About Basketball

Biotech Job Hopping

School Boarding

Town Name Pronouncing

Synchronized Storrowing

Bar Brawling

Star Market Parking Spot Jockeying

Rhythmic Catholic Guilting

Wrestling Dad’s Harvard Expectations

Ahchery

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Touring again. Guest appearance​ in Stockholm. Regular blogging will be resumed next week.

Just like Trump’s Truth Social Back when Trump first picked JD Vance, I wrote that the did it at the behest of Tucker Carlson and his sons Uday and Qusay which seems to have been the case. He was also taken with Vance’s zealous defenses of him on Fox News and the fact that he’s got a truly nasty approach to politics which is right up his alley. But I think he was also discombobulated by the assassination attempt which frightened him far more than anyone’s let on. The decision has been a total disaster. The unmarried cat ladies insult has been revealed to have been a standard line from him for years as well as dozens of other bizarre statements. His political shape-shifting from Trump hater to ult worshiper was so precipitous he seems to have had some kind of interplanetary personality transplant. And then there is the “couch” thing which is one of the most hilarious memes to ever hit the political internet. No politician can recover from that. Trump is having to try to clean up after his VP which is not good, especially since nobody does clean-up worse than he does.

Sometimes picturing things in your mind is counterproductive.

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Religion is a subset of ideology, and ideology is a set of beliefs about how how the world is and how the world should be. Capitalism is an ideology. Communism is an ideology. Scientism is an ideology. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and so on are religious ideologies.

The boundary between the two is weak. Communism and Scientism make metaphysical statements. Communism and Scientism generally state that there is no soul, there is no afterlife and there are no supernatural beings.

Capitalism believes that people, out of self interest (greed and selfishness), act in ways that create welfare for the majority. This is a radical belief, held by almost no one and no other belief system in history. It also believes in unlimited growth. The combination of these beliefs is going to wind up killing a few billion people.

So when is the media going to turn on Harris? I don’t know but I’d guess it’s going to happen pretty soon. It’s inevitable for all the reasons Brian Beutler spelled out in his excellent piece today in Off Message: As happily as it ended for liberals, the early weeks of July were their darkest since November 2016, illuminating only how various elites will respond if Donald Trump wins the election.  What we saw was disturbing: When it appeared that Trump would win the election all but unopposed, we did not see officeholders take steps to batten down the hatches of the political system, or media figures apply extra scrutiny to the presumptive president. (In 2016, media elites explained away their insipid obsession with Hillary Clinton’s emails by citing her poll numbers—she would likely be president, after all, and thus merited a thorough scrubbing.) Instead, we witnessed what the scholar Timothy Snyder has famously described as “obeying in advance.” Some of these gestures were truly ominous.

The Republican VP nominee pressured regulators to weaken limits on cancer-causing emissions from steel industry manufacturing.

Replace all Department of Education employees with sunglass-wearing dudes filming themselves ranting in pick-up trucks.

Abolish DEI hiring policies and ensure jobs are only given based on nepotism.

School children will start every morning reciting the pledge of allegiance and/or the lyrics of Kid Rock’s “Bawitdaba.”

Outlaw abortions for all Americans, excluding mistresses of Republicans.

The libs have to take Chris Pratt back. We don’t want him either.

Everyone has to stop making fun of my Punisher Thin Blue Line tattoo.

All Americans are entitled to own and carry firearms, provided they are white.

McDonald’s must bring back Mayor McCheese and execute the Hamburglar.

Ban all books, because reading is for nerds.

Girls can no longer refuse to date guys because they’re MAGA, and also, they have to tell them they are handsome and sometimes have to buy them stuff.

To clarify the gender binary, they will be renamed “bangable” and “not bangable.”

The independent regulator Impress has called for new legislation to tackle the dangers of social media misinformation

Is it over Tuesday? Sure, I was disappointed to hear that North Carolina Roy Cooper withdrew from the competition to be Kamala Harris’s vice president. But I get his reasoning: Cooper, the former chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, has been close to Harris since they were both state attorneys general. His potential selection was seen as a possible asset in shifting North Carolina — the Democrats’ only significant opportunity to expand on their 2020 map — into Harris’ hands. Under the state constitution, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is the GOP’s nominee to replace the term-limited Cooper, becomes acting governor and can assume the Democrat’s powers when he travels out of state. For those following along at home, that’s Mark “some folks need killing” Robinson. Simone Biles is a “weak little gymnast” Mark Robinson. “Doesn’t pay his taxes and is under investigation” for fraud Mark Robinson. Cooper, according to two of the people, has expressed concern about what Robinson might do if he were to leave the state extensively for campaign travel.

Is the car our most gendered technology?

A recent report was problematic for appearing to place responsibility with 'demanding parents’ who contribute to local authority financial problems, writes Sharon Smith

What kind do you want? A power (and water) outage last night after a long afternoon of canvassing (plus a visit from the neighborhood black bear) has me catching up this morning. I haven’t had time to watch the Kamala Harris rally in Atlanta from last night now that power’s restored. Just sayin’. Apparently, Harris had the kind of to-the-rafters crowd Donald Trump lies about drawing. Rev. Warnock did some preaching. Those years of Republican voter fraud allegations about “them” stealing your vote? Warnock reminds Georgians that a “Florida Man” occupying the Oval Office actually tried to steal theirs in 2020. It’s on tape. And he’s been indicted. VP Kamala Harris received a “modest” welcome at the Georgia State University Convocation Center. Harris laid out the stakes. Really? What kind of future do you want? Those are the stakes.

Accommodation for asylum seekers awaiting Home Office processing amounted to £6.4 billion of the overspend

Key elements of misinformation about the Southport killings originated in a social media post by 'Channel 3 News’