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You know who's freaking awesome? Dorie Miller [reposting due to a current wretched news story] (opens the original)
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Born in Waco, TX in 1919, Doris “Dorie” Miller’s parents were sharecroppers. His family did subsistence farming. While in high school, Dorie helped out until he needed to quit school to help keep the family fed. He took a job as a cook in a local restaurant. For a bit of historical context about the kind of place Dorie’s family was trying to survive in, just 3 years before Dorie was born, one of the most horrific lynchings of a Black American took place in Waco. Jesse Washington, a 17-year-old B
I just saw Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and I mean, Western Civilization is Doomed (opens the original)
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I cannot believe acclaimed director Christopher Nolan’s casting choice for THE DOG, Argos, in his $250 million summer blockbuster epic. Seriously, check this out. Nolan wants us to believe that this is the breed of Homer’s beloved loyal dog, Argos:<source type="image/webp"
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