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3:30 is great.

I'm sure everybody can find ways to throw rocks at the church. But the one that leaves me unsettled is just the pump and Circumstance and pageantry and money and money and money thrown at the Pope's lifeless body. What a fine most unsettling is the timing of his death should have reminded the powers that be that Christ didn't have any of this Pomp and Circumstance and passion when he was crucified. You think somebody might have thought of that seeing as how was just Easter dontcha know. Also, if you ever get the chance to see the Pieta in a curated environment, even if you're not a believer, it is a gut punch emotionally.Its Mary, cradling her dead son's body.

Cat on the keyboard.

1989, a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, caused 97 deaths and over 760 injuries. In 2013, two bombs made from pressure cookers exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line, killing two women and an 8-year-old boy and injuring more than 260. In 2019, fire swept across the top of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral during renovation work on the landmark structure; the blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its iconic rectangular towers. (The cathedral was restored and reopened to the public in December 2024.)

Today in history: On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner RMS Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland just over two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. Over 1,500 people died; 710 survived. Also on this date: In 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater the previous evening; Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the 17th president hours later. In 1947, Jackie Robinson, baseball’s first Black major league player of the modern era, made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day at Ebbets Field. (The Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves, 5-3.) In 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first franchised McDonald’s restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois. In 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco; a member of the group was SLA kidnap victim Patricia Hearst. (Hearst later said she’d been forced to participate in the robbery.)

Really makes you wonder where Obama was on 9/11....

Crazy that Cleopatra lived closer to bitcoin than to the ancient pyramids of Giza.

Hudson River? Pretty sure they weren't the only semens in there.

Did I miss something? Their parents still murdered? Why are they up for resentencing?

Don't think you can say "squamus" anymore. Think its; Indigimous.

How's your Peroni's disease doing?

I hope your noodles are benign.

Worst Dow drop in years. Fantastic.

Hard for ten people twice his age to collectively rack up $11M. Let alone one idiot kid.

Me and my bestie spent one entire summer watching Corvette Summer at the theatre. I swear, lost track at how many times I saw it. - When prices for kids daytime tickets were pocket change. We both knew on some level it was awful, but it's hard to beat a boring summer day with A/C and a big box of candy. ....and Annie Potts made my Tingler Tingle.