Catholic, Husband, Father. Untrainable sub/retard. All I can do is strive to increase my own virtue.
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I'm a grandfather again today...
...to the second girl born to my male line in 120 years.
The second child of my youngest son (who just turned 23). Luckily, Mom has lots more experience with raising girls (she has a dozen nieces).
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The New Republic had enormous difficulty keeping law and order in the territories it managed to hold onto after the collapse of the Empire.
Many jurisdictions turned to recruiting ex-Imperial personnel, to the point where it was heard from many that 'it feels like they just switched uniforms'.
Areas where there was significant retention of Imperial personnel tended to have better results, however.
Buddy There Is No “Terminate Pursuit” Here
It’s The Corellian Hyperspace Lane You’re Going to Die
- New Republic Sector Patrol
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1985 Honda CRX, silver over grey.
Not the Si, but it was a *fantastic* little car. Utterly impractical for anything more than 2 people, but it was enormous fun to drive. I was never brave enough to out drive it.
Sudden unexpected morning freeze, a quarter mile of black ice, and she met her end sliding into an existing accident. All safety measures and designs worked flawlessly. I walked away from it, she went for scrap.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
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Goodness, no. And I add to it every week.
My library is a legacy for my children, and their children.
That tree that a man plants, knowing he will never sit in its mature shade? Well, mine is paper.
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Glorious and true.
A few more cracks and tarnish than in days past, but still true.
There's some good in this world, Mr. Harnish.
Have you ever seen it?
The City of Carmel, Indiana, glimmering like pearl and silver, its roundabouts gracefully shepherding traffic without a stop.
Have you walked its spotless streets beneath the watchful gaze of code enforcement? Heard the laughter of children whose bicycles remain precisely where they left them?
There, the hedges are trimmed. The ordinances enforced. No shopping cart lies abandoned in a creek.
By the strength of its zoning, the realm is kept.
I... what?
Y'know, points for creativity, I guess.
Beats 'ripped from today's headlines' by a country mile.
My wife watched Grey’s Anatomy for a bit and here are some REAL plot lines:
-A man has extra arms growing out of his back he calls “Angel Wings” and it’s implied he can hover with them
-A dead dad possesses his son to perform surgery on his sister. The son’s not a surgeon he’s a janitor who just broke into the OR
-A man fell 40,000 ft from a plane and came in with ONE BROKEN LEG
-A man gets crushed in a trash compactor so they do surgery at the dump using trash as tools. They hum the Fat Albert theme during
-The hospital’s swamped because “a guy dressed as a clown blew up a hospital downtown” implying they’re in Gotham City and the Joker is real
-A burglar uses explosives to blow open a safe, the door then imbeds in his chest and they need a locksmith to open it so they can perform surgery
-Jared from Subway is a recurring character
-The main doctor has a migraine so bad she can freeze time. It’s not played metaphorically, she’s physically moving things
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