I wish people who aren't from DC would drop this messaging line that the National Guard are all standing around doing nothing playing on their phones weeding our flower beds. The National Guard presence is not benign and each Guard member is complicit at this point.
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I get that DC news on some level will never care about obscure parts of Fairfax County, but last night’s storms out here were severe enough that it literally looks like tornado or hurricane damage in a couple areas, and it’s all over local social media, yet I see nothing except on FFXnow.
Jason D. Salvagni
To give a recent example, I don’t have a lot of love for The Body Keeps the Score, but “composite character” does not mean “made up”
(I am fine, our neighborhood is fine, but some that are quite close are pretty rough.)
Waiting for Godot but it’s Statler and Waldorf as Vladimir and Estragon
(This is not actually a good idea but it’s 100% my personal taste)
Gotta say: this episode of the little kids Spidey show where Sandman makes a literal giant statue of himself and a palace in the desert missed a lot of opportunities to sneak in Ozymandias references for the grownups
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines stays winning
The piece is actually interesting, though, fwiw
I guess we as Americans are assumed to be too dumb to get it, which, fair
