Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Let there be snark.

We won’t go back.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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From a trip to Scotland in April 2019.

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Victoria Street, Edinburgh, UK

First, a shot from Victoria Street in Edinburgh, said to be the inspiration for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books. It’s a steep, curved, cobblestone street, lined with old shops and pubs.

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Mealt Falls, Skye, UK.

This is Mealt Falls, which falls off Kilt Rock into the ocean, on the Isle of Skye.

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    Now I’m wondering what Edinburgh locale inspired Knockturn Alley. Or maybe it’s in Glasgow.

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    RedDirtGirl

    My mother is from Scotland. My visit to Edinburgh after college, back in the ‘80’s, was delightful.

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    satby

    Thanks cleek! Scotland is a place I hope to go back to again once Americans aren’t international plague rats unwelcome everywhere.

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    J R in WV

    Only two photos, one urban, kinda, one quite rural, quite a sheer waterfall. But it covers Scotland pretty well, judging from the other photo sets from that area. Especially love the mist in the Edinburgh photo!

    Imagine walking down that street at 2 am wondering how the vote was counting over in the colonies?

    Thanks cleek. Pleasant visit to the Scottish realm!

  8. 8.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Nina:

    I took some summer classes at St Andrews many years ago. I’d love to see your son’s pictures.

    Love Scotland, always have. Cleek’s photos bring back happy memories of long-ago trips.

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    Elizabelle

    First photo makes me want a mug of hot, strong tea in a cafe or a pint in a pub.  Wet dark weather, with shop lights and wet pavements.  Atmospheric.

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    WaterGirl

    @Nina:  Please do!

    I recommend writing your introduction – and the text that goes with  each picture – in something like Word.  That way if something goes wrong with the form, all you have to do is copy & paste again.

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    cope

    @WaterGirl: And more Scotland…how great is this?  These two pictures capture the yin and yang of the Scotland I visited and worked in more than 40 years ago perfectly, thank you.

    A great start to a promising day.

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    stinger

    Never mind Harry Potter, that is one gorgeous image! Take out the cars and it could be 1819 rather than 2019. And nice to know what I might see if I ever get over the sea to Skye. Thanks, cleek!

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    The Moar You Know

    First, a shot from Victoria Street in Edinburgh, said to be the inspiration for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books. It’s a steep, curved, cobblestone street, lined with old shops and pubs.

    I was standing right there eight months later in December.  My wife and I are in utter love with Scotland.  Trying to figure out if there’s a way we can move there permanently even though we are in our fifties.

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    JanieM

    @stinger:

    Take out the cars and it could be 1819 rather than 2019.

    For many years I worked for a week a month in an office at the edge of Harvard Square. Sometimes on my walks I’d be at a spot in some side street where it was the same as you say: take out the cars and it could be 1819, or even longer ago than that. I tried to put myself in the shoes of a person 100 years hence (assuming the whole area isn’t under water by then) — who might be looking at the same scene and imagining the same kind of thing, while college students and tourists still thronged the place. Temporal hall of mirrors. Made me a little dizzy.

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    JanieM

    @JanieM: @20 was about time passing, while the built environment (in some places) stays remarkably the same.

    But from another angle, Europe and the US are on different time scales in that realm. I remember on my first trip to Ireland being bemused at the sight of laundry hanging on ropes strung inside old stone ruins that were probably oh, eight hundred years old. To me the ruins were mythical. To the local people they were just…piles of stone, to be made useful in any way they could.

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    BigJimSlade

    Thanks cleek – great shots! (But only 2?!) How’s your law doing? (on mark as ever, of course)

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