Comments on: Open thread 8/8/2025

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 21:00:13 +0000

Gotta be hospitals full of guys used to be on the fringe of that dancing business.

By: SD

SD — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 02:34:47 +0000

WE ARE SO BACK!!! Sororities celebrate America with YMCA recruitment videos – VIRAL

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/08/we-are-so-back-sororities-celebrate.html

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 01:52:22 +0000

This kind of dancing is more athletic than a lot of Olympic sports.

By: Wendy K Laubach

Wendy K Laubach — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 01:25:12 +0000

It’s hard to imagine how strong those dancers’ legs must be, and their knees.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:09:38 +0000

Dunno what to make of this but for damn sure it doesn’t make for a case of the intestinal warm and fuzzy feelings: https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-2-former-attorney-general-bill-barr-bill-barr-held-secret-meetings-to

By: Sennacherib

Sennacherib — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:04:42 +0000

Damn, these people can dance!

By: buddhaha

buddhaha — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:03:19 +0000

All that twirling was impressive. I get the feeling that Slavic folk dancing is very male oriented and therefore much more extremely athletic.
That said, the first guy (#10) spun like a top for an impressive time, and then sprang to his feet. I think if the video had continued, we would have seen him listing sideways trying to walk straight. In his position he couldn’t use the “head snap” trick.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:35:23 +0000

New post: Six Hundred Million Years in K-12
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I think Orszag would have a point were we to replace our current system with one animated by serious pedagogy. That would require all students take annual regents examinations and that the current set of ‘schools of education’ be closed and their faculty blacklisted.

By: mkent

mkent — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:00:30 +0000

”Trump-Putin Tentative Agreement”

So Trump and Putin agree — no need to consult the Ukrainians — that the torture centers in occupied Ukraine will continue to operate, the mass graves will continue to be filled, thousands of Ukrainian women will continue to be raped, and tens of thousands of Ukrainian children will continue to be taken from and taught to hate their own parents. What’s more, America will help Russia rebuild and modernize its military so that it can take the rest of Ukraine and Eastern Europe later and do the same to them. All so the messiah can get his Nobel Peace Prize.

The most shameful day for America since the Trail of Tears.

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:35:38 +0000

I’ve written lately that I see historical “rhyming” with the ’80s and Trump’s two terms. This is an interesting substack https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-beginning-to-feel-like-the-80s-in-america-again-68c2708e from a foreigner who saw the movie, “Weird Science” in the ’80s and it spurred him to move here and become an American. He too feels it in the air.

As Andrew Breitbart so famously said, “Politics is downstream from culture.”