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Only one is the singer though.

But there's only one of each. When was the last time you heard someone say "The Belfast City Council" or "The Belfast International Airport?"

An Taoiseach, An Dail. The singer out of  the Rolling Stones. Are these wrong too?

Abuse of the definite article.

"The San Jose Airport."

"The San Jose City Council."

"The US Congress."

Those are all fine, unless there are more than one of each.

Lots of people don't want to pay for armed invasions of other countries. But we don't get to choose where our taxes go.

Surprising how long someone can live here and not know cops unions are a solid Republican voting block.

This article on Churchill showed up on my newsfeed today.  Timely, given the direction of this thread. A good read.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/winston-churchill-british-empire-colonialism?fbclid=IwAR1Tr1kPIxqqp21KT47dXXDoDpVDb1kT2JgHnQtfcDURkV9LhKTWxviSMKg

Dave Chapelle on police killings. Absofuckinglutely devastating. You need to watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1624&v=3tR6mKcBbT4&feature=emb_logo

It's not in the least bit funny,  in case you were expecting that.

A very interesting article arguing that it was not in fact the atomic bombs that caused Japan's surrender.  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Interesting argument indeed.

However, surely some research must have been done back in the day on the thinking of those in power in Japan?

Assuming the author's opinion is correct, did every single one of those involved toe the line and, forever more, falsely promote the decisiveness of the atomic bombings?

Has there been any revisionism in Japan?

I don't know the answer to any of these questions.  I had always thought the second bombing was sheer malevolence, given that the Japanese surely would have surrendered just to avoid a second bombing.  But not if this author is correct.   

A very interesting article arguing that it was not in fact the atomic bombs that caused Japan's surrender.  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I'd imagine the white privilege point is that one privilege white people have is to call the police to come to their home without worrying that the arriving cops might think the resident is  the intruder.

Yeah. That post you just quoted has done it for me.

[Prosecutors appealed the ruling twice, calling the two a danger to the community. A federal appeals court sent them back to jail on Friday]

OK, fine.

After Mr. Mattis and Ms. Rahman spent more than two days in jail, a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn released them each on $250,000 bond to home confinement with GPS monitoring, describing the allegations as "one night of behavior."

Prosecutors appealed the ruling twice, calling the two a danger to the community. A federal appeals court sent them back to jail on Friday, pending the outcome of their bail appeal.

This just gets funnier.  You're complaining about articles not being in the Times, then complaining about specific paragraphs not being in the articles that, it turns out, are in the Times, all the while not actually having access to the part of the Times site behind paywalls.

You're right, a national newspaper has only dedicated two full articles about a story that wouldn't even be newsworthy if the two individuals weren't lawyers. Two full articles, on separate days , while a global pandemic, and a domestic crisis rage. What absolute bias to not devote every single day to a minor sub plot.

Finally, Republican claims of US voting fraud established...

Chauvin illegally voting in Florida.

https://twitter.com/TooMuchMe/status/1268986246338134016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268986246338134016&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimateknicks.com%2Fforum%2Ftopic.asp%3Ft%3D60000%26page%3Dlu%23newunreadpost