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The following book review and interview, just in time for Fathers Day shopping, comes to you via Janet Manley, an Australian witch, and yours in existential crises.  When he became a father, my husband read no books on the subject. Nor did my male friends, or my friend’s husbands (“Not a one”), according to a brief and informal survey. The result was that when my daughter woke in the middle of the night during our first attempt at sleep training, the weight of what to do fell more heavily onto my side of the bed.

For decades now, conservatives have insisted that Martin Luther King Jr. had Only One True Quote and argued that “color-blind” conservatives were therefore the true defenders of his legacy. But it looks like they might be starting to give up the charade, with Charlie Kirk announcing today his sudden discovery that ACTUALLY the civil rights leader didn’t really mean that one quote and ACTUALLY he did a lot of really horrible no-good bad things like … help bring about the Civil Rights Act.

I know many of you are already happily using pressure cookers, but I also know that a lot of you are thinking about either upgrading or – hooray! – buying a second or third. So while this post is mainly aimed at those who are yet to buy, you might want to have a scan through as some of the information might be useful. Generally speaking, these posts about pressure cooking basics which I am going to intersperse with recipes might be worth reading by experienced pressure cooker users – new and useful things occur to me all the time, which seem really obvious as soon as I think them, and I will want to share them all.

1 North Clay/Clay City (Louisville) 22-3 2 St. Anthony (Effingham) 15-5 3 Marquette (Ottawa) 21-2 4 Brown County (Mt. Sterling) 20-2 5 Greenfield/Northwestern (Greenfield) 18-4 6 Chicago Hope Academy (Chicago) 16-4 7 Newman Central Catholic (Sterling) 11-4 8 Putnam County (Granville) 18-7 9 Fulton 11-2 10 Delavan 14-4 11 Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg (Windsor) 16-3 12 Routt Catholic (Jacksonville) 18-8-1 13 Peoria Christian (Peoria) 12-2 14 Farina South Central (Farina) 12-9 15 Steeleville 14-2

Today’s newsletter includes reviews of the following relationship K-dramas: • Absolute Boyfriend (절대 그이) | Yeo Jin-goo, Bang Min-ah | 2019 | ☆☆ • Cheese in the Trap (치즈 인 더 트랩) | Kim Go eun, Park Hae jin |  2016 | ☆☆☆½ • 📽️ Cheese in the Trap — The Movie (치즈 인 더 트랩) | Kim Go eun, Park Hae jin | 2018 | ☆☆ • Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol (도도솔솔라라솔) | Go Ara, Lee Jae-wook | 2020 | ☆☆½

ERIC ASKS! We all want more contact yadda yadda. Why doesn't anybody propose making wider bats? I would love to see some lefty slap hitter trying to use a big old wide bat to dink some balls into short left field.  SM: Love this question. There’s a very simple answer, which is true but (as we’ll see) also basically wrong. That answer is: “Because it’s against the rules.” Before the 2010 season, MLB amended Rule 3.

We were listening to The Wild Robot, again. In a summer of roadtrips, this was our third round with the first two audiobooks in Peter Brown’s series about Roz, a robot who finds herself on an island uninhabited by humans and builds herself a life there. We had already reread the printed books, too, in anticipation of The Wild Robot Protects, book 3, which was coming in September.

I’m not a screenwriter but I like to think I can tell a good story and have written enough partial screenplays to compose the weirdest collection of stories ever. Back in May, Cinemax’s Banshee ended its four year run with a soulful send-off. Every story line was treated deliberately and carefully. There weren’t any real cliffhangers while a few plot threads did linger. Every Friday, Fanshees know they will forever be without this wonderful show(until the producers decide to make that movie in 2–4 years).

UPDATE 06/01/2024 Team ECCO (the org who owns Charlotte and the aquarium) posted this on May 30th (1 day after publication) The statement still leaves some questions to be answered with regards to how long the aquarium has known this without disclosure and whether the claims of parthenogenesis are false, but it seems increasingly likely that Charlotte's pregnancy is non-viable. Thanks to user for updating me in the comments.