mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
Reuters Global News Desk editor, Asia. Defense, other stuff. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6
Ad astra per aspera
9,864 posts
14,805 followers
714 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Zhou Enlai’s famous quote that it was “too soon to tell” about the French Revolution is, of course, apocryphal. He misheard, and thought the topic was Prince and The Revolution. They didn’t form till 1979, years later, so there was nothing very profound about declining to assess their legacy.
comment in response to
post
well yeah, with that attitude
comment in response to
post
neither dave nor I is mad at the kids. the ncaa is awful, they screwed this up
comment in response to
post
I don't think they shouldn't be paid. it was unfair how things were. players are getting compensated more fairly now. I'm just saying it has, to me, made division i less interesting and more like a pro league. maybe there is a better way to do this, is all I'm saying
comment in response to
post
gonna have to start hanging sdbs on scan eagles
comment in response to
post
Me: sometimes it hurts simply to extend, sometimes I put on 80s New Wave music and can knock out three hundred reps on the TRX band.”
Doctors: Can you demonstrate?
Me: well, ok. [pitching my voice to alto] “I was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar, that much is true”
comment in response to
post
the first thing I thought of was "what's the longest band name I can think of?" and it was the presidents of the united states of america in my pants, which is bad on many levels
comment in response to
post
that article is from 2018, it has been automated for a while and you didn't even notice
comment in response to
post
I'm not sure that 74% figure is even remotely true btw and I have no idea how you'd even calculate it
comment in response to
post
I am not at liberty to say
comment in response to
post
wait no
comment in response to
post
I have the whiskey glasses!
comment in response to
post
I bought a boxed dvd set decades ago that included a metal replica of the origami unicorn, it was dope
comment in response to
post
let's fucking go
comment in response to
post
the gun is the coolest tho, come on
comment in response to
post
losing a b-2 would 100 percent be a massive intelligence hit. old airframes but the tech and guts are gucci
comment in response to
post
add this to the increasingly long list of fun and impractical things I want but can't justify spending money on
comment in response to
post
two, two--four. and noodles
comment in response to
post
do not humor him with this
comment in response to
post
blasphemer. heathen. the depths of your wrongness are unfathomable
comment in response to
post
I don't think k dies at the end fwiw
comment in response to
post
I figured your entrance was more like