King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (1924-2015)
Called a reformer, yet still cutting off hands, and heads.
Saudi proverb: To get a head you have to go on foot.
(web translation)
My apologies to the victims.
@BobCens: I’m impressed.
Here’s a pickle: I haven’t seen or spoken to my father for 30 years. Yesterday he sent me a friend request on Facebook. Hmm. What to do, what to do…
@Benedick: A couple of years ago my book club read Tiny Beautiful Things, a collection of letters and responses from the now-defunct “Dear Sugar” advice column (whose author, its turns out, was Cheryl Strayed, now better known for her memoir Wild). Much to my surprise, it was a great read, and a lot of her advice has stuck with me. So, though the circumstances are obviously different (“every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” etc. — and I say that as someone with plenty of unhappiness in my own family), I refer you to the exchange here with “Orphan.”
@mellbell: Many thanks.
@Benedick: Good luck, whatever you choose to do.
@SanFranLefty: It just strikes me as being so wildly – inappropriate? – I was taken aback.
@Benedick: Everything online is inappropriate.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @FlyingChainSaw: No, but my government was.
FLYINGCHAINSAW • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Were you kidnapped?
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @FlyingChainSaw: I’ve spent the past five weeks looking like Astronaut Dave going through the…
FLYINGCHAINSAW • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! NOJO - HOW COME WE'RE NOT COVERING KRASNOV?
NOJO • The Reckoning Four years later: Uhhh, how’d that work out?
JNOV • Hanging by a Thread @nojo: yeah. I had a feeling you’d say that.
NOJO • Hanging by a Thread @JNOV: Haven’t touched a thing — checked it the other day, worked from here. But that’s my…
JNOV • Hanging by a Thread Oh! My edits worked! Praise nojo!