Frank A. Spring

my man

at least as back in town as the boys, if not more

the Sam Spade joke is a touch on the nose

and i would also say: Dashiel HamMUTT

no less a detective for that

yes. YES.

hercule poiroooooo

i only regret that i have but one like to give for this post

(mixing victorian/edwardian detective tropes, i know)

this dog told me that we’d all gather in the drawing room before dinner and the truth would reveal itself, should i be worried?

”Baskervilles ain’t got nothin on ME”

“Sweetheart, i get all that. i really do. but the thing is: what if there’s a *mystery*?”

Former NFL players decry White House video mixing big hits, airstrikes The Trump administration released a video on X using footage of Ray Lewis, Chad Ochocinco and other former NFL players juxtaposed with war footage.

“For that play to be associated with bombing human beings makes me sick,” Bell told The Washington Post. “I don’t want anything to do with images like that.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

yeee’re nut wrang, b’y

love to construct my identity around fandom of the seventh (possibly ninth!) best laker ever

reminder that the next successful example of coercive bombing by an aggressor will be the first

bob pape crashes through the ceiling

the AI assist feature on my email just suggested i replace "be awash" with "see an abundance of" in the name of BEING CONCISE. it's the lying that hurts most.

that’s decent work you’re doing; good on ye

we must ask: would this man survive an encounter with the work of t.s. eliot

Camille Desmoulins asks what’s good boys

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

disagree, and respectfully submit there‘s a non-zero chance you underburgered

“Quora Digest: Cleopatra was African American.”

quora continues to serve up the best stuff on the internet

["US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says" voice] US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says

jeb i don’t want to alarm you but yer man fitch is out here saying US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025

this is the only explanation to withstand scrutiny

"people say we don't have anything to play for, but i say we still do" - just an absurd, indefensible articulation of transparent nonsense, the point of which is to assert something, ANYTHING, forcefully enough that maybe someone will believe it

the best (worst) part of all of this is that not only have I heard this bullshit and its variants all my career, but I have written or said some (much; most) of this with a straight face, god forgive me (won't; shouldn't).

i mean this sincerely: sports journalists should cover politics more

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