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Looking askance at football while drinking Old Grandad. Happy Thanksgiving! (at East Coventry, PA)
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A video was circulated on social media, emulated by idiots, and then exaggerated by a mixed herd of worriers (‘We need to legislate this away, so that it doesn’t happen to me/my kid’), golden age thinkers (‘America is in decline’), and the media (‘This is something people are talking about, so let’s find a way to ride the wave.’)
—We’ve Seen This ‘Knockout’ Game Hysteria Before, And We’ll See It Again (via theatlanticcities)
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When I was a kid growing up in the wizardless wastes of New Montana, I dreamed of someday paying the Dead-Eyed Ferryman my weight in bloodcoin and traveling over the Sleepless Hills into New York City. There was a glamour to it, a sense of possibility and neither too few nor too many spellcasters. And for a while, New York City was like that for me. I had lovers and apartments and few to no curses printed in ancient runes on my forehead.
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Soufflé and fish fingers!
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I’m fascinated by this 1855 map of Philadelphia. History!
Hamilton & Baring are switched on the map!
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The launch of a Minotaur I rocket for the U.S. Air Force ORS-3 mission is scheduled to occur on November 19, 2013, with a planned launch window from 7:30 -9:15 pm EST. The launch, from ignition to delivery of the satellites in orbit, will take a little less than twelve-and-a-half minutes, with a targeted 500 km circular orbit at an inclination of 40.5 degrees.
(via Minotaur I/ORS-3)
