And Alexander Wept

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Duke Energy Fined $102 million for Polluting Rivers with Coal Ash

The United States has 3 times as many Jerusalems as Israel

10 times as many Londons as England

30 times as many Parises as France

Should you be looking for more excuses to explore “deep in the heart of Texas,” there’s not only the obligatory Paris and London, but also Edinburg[h], Athens, Florence, Naples, Liverpool, Dublin, Italy, Holland, China, but also my two favorite edge cases, Canadian and Rhome.

Ah to be named after mere cities...

every western movie ever made: The wild west is dying. theres no more room left for cowboys anymore…

every samurai movie ever made (both edo and bakamatsu periods): The bushido code is dying. there no more room left for samurai anymore…

I’ve got y’alls new favorite art piece right here.

According to Google, Samurai were abolished in 1868.

I’ve got something else to add to this: there’s also an extremely specific species of mushroom that can only be found in Texas and Japan. I’m serious.

I’m in a Catholic FB group, and someone made a post asking what the Church’s stance on communism is. I responded, “Supporting communism is a sin,” and this old lady was like, “You know, I really dislike people who think they can pick and choose what is or isn’t a sin based on what they don’t like! Shame on you!”

The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:

apparently this is a thing for them: