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Fowler and Austen have funny commentary on the word:

The word nice derives from the Latin for "not knowing." So the nice guy is ignorant. Words often change over the centuries—and nice has been particularly all over the place—but a sense of the ancient meaning is still retained in usage today. When describing people at least. The

Important to distinguish between a) politics as political-entertainment, packaged for mass consumption on cable news & social media, and b) politics as "the things concerning the polis," the science of how people ought to live together. Politics in the first sense is for debased.

Posture check—

"Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills."

RT @CovfefeAnon: "She tried the trad lifestyle and it didn't work for her - a cautionary tale of why you must never abandon feminism" - UnH….

I've made the executive decision to make the world better by sharing more Beauty

JRRT on Beowulf:."The worth of defeated valor in this world is deeply felt. As the poet looks back into the past, surveying the history of kings and warriors in the old traditions, he sees that all glory (or as we might say “culture” or “civilization”) ends in night. The solution

RT @TheNicholasWolf: @ChivalryGuild The British deserve a better class of tyrant.

RT @ThomBrady5: If Elon wants large families, he can start by . 1.) firing Indian H1B visa employees.2.) hiring Americans .3.) paying $200-….

Starmer: "I'm working day and night to secure our borders, smash the gangs, and make Britain a fairer, more secure country.". Just like he's smashing the heavy bag:.

RT @DataRepublican: 🇺🇸💰1991 US-backed coup in Haiti. From one of the documents I scanned today: USAID and NED poured their monetary efforts….

RT @Anc_Aesthetics: If we really wanted to incentivize self-deportations we would institute an outright ban on remittances. We cannot allow….

Girl will be very lucky to have three older brothers to protect her.

I wrote more about it here:.

Screenwriter Roger Avary pats himself and Neil Gaiman on the back for this "deeper examination" of the poem.

DON'T DO IT, BEOWULF!.Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf (2007) is such a Boomerized update on the old poem. Instead of killing three monsters over the course of his career, Beowulf kills the first, fornicates with the second, and begets the third.