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Used to was, even dead Black people had to be kept apart from the white folk. (Top of the non-Negro obituary column here is an apology for having listed someone incorrectly in the Negro section.)

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I feel for the marines and National Guard members now in Los Angeles, because this is not what they signed up for. Can't say the same for the LAPD and LASD.

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Tonigh I introduced the 15 year old to The Shawshank Redemption. He recognized its quality. The kid is okay.

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Dadgummit. Now I have to write 7.2 million Thank You cards.

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Well, thanks to my newspapers.com access, I can tell you when each of his three daughters were born, and that his brother and sister got married in the same summer (not to each other.) Surely that would be worth a few thou....

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Just passed by the protest in Thousand Oaks, California. 50-100 people, which may not sound like much, but: the protest is not schedule to start for over four hours yet.

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The No Kings rallies in Los Angeles will be mighty, but will make our hockey team very sad.

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Dear audiobook and movie catalogs: Please become filterable by run time. I'm taking a trip, and need an audiobook of 7 to 8 hours. Don't make me click through on each one to eliminate it. And if I've got to leave here in two hours, I don't want you suggesting a bunch of 2:15 movies. Thanks, Nat

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What's the army guy doing on the moon? Probably a lot of push-ups. You gotta do a lot of them because with 1/6th gravity, each one has little effect.

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It must've been cool living in, like, 4 BC, knowing that the years were counting down but not being sure what to.

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NEW: The City of Los Angeles files an amicus brief arguing that the presence of the military in LA is unlawful and counterproductive—with an early reference to the 2024 Dodgers parade (not a "rebellion"). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Please be clear that she’s talking about trying to violently overthrow the democratically elected officials of the city and the state.

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Los Angeles has a flag. Does it make a good resistance flag? Plus: it has jagged teeth. Minus: it has tiny details. A better resistance flag might be a Dodgers flag. The Dodgers, like many Angelenos, come from somewhere else, but have found support and made their home here.

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You know what's me? "Here's a book worth reprinting. I could scan, clean, and rebuild it probably in a weekend!" Pause "Or I could expand it, and make it weeks of research and prep work with no guarantee of selling an copies at all, much less selling more copies because it was expanded..."

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Science has solved global warming.

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Branding can differentiate your product, whether you are offering the elite version or the value option.

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Ding ding ding

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Spent hours this morning blaming myself for something only to learn it was not my fault.

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Remember: when you can't find Waldo, he's probably off somewhere having a tryst with Carmen Sandiego.

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I'd like to believe that this quote is on her tombstone.

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Imagine a populace that is perfectly healthy until age 40, when everyone develops Human Explosion Disease and dies instantly. Jane Scientist develops a drug that delays not the onset but the effects of HED by a decade. The populace goes from being 100% healthy to 80%... but they are better off.

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LAPD is going to destroy or steal all their stuff, right, like they traditionally do with folks sleeping rough?

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The famlly is kinda disappointed with season 2 of Poker Face. Plenty of fine performers and fine scenes... but it's like they've decided this is no longer a howsolveit mystery series. There's no interesting detection going on.

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I suspect there's some SoCal lawyers who are hoping that the National Guard will try to insist on rooming somewhere, raising the possibility of that rarity, a Third Amendment case.

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August 1938. The folks throwing a big jitterbug event (57 bands) in Chicago had not expected anywhere near 200,000 attendees, which not only filled Soldier Field stadium but had a big enough crowd outside that those inside couldn't exit.

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Some people are concerned that El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula may now have a lot of Latinos.

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