former FCC Chief of Staff & General Counsel, longtime Virginian, native Michigander, sports fan, movie buff, owner of a pug
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Below are photos I took last year at Nir Oz, along the Israel/Gaza border. On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists attacked the kibbutz, killing 47, abducting another 67, and setting fire to homes. We must never forget the brutality and inhumanity of what happened that day.
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Judging from reviews, "Green Lantern," "R.I.P.D.," "Fireflies in the Garden," and "Self/less" were far more of a "brutal, brutal time for people" and "a f***ing mess" than America in the 1980s, which a Canadian who came here in the 1990s didn't experience. xitter.cf/Variety/status/2095288…
Ryan Reynolds says ’80s nostalgia “paves over all the trauma” of the “tumultuous” decade:
“The 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people. It was a fucking mess and people forget that. It was a tremendous strife. Socio political tensions everywhere. We were still pretty fresh off a Cuban missile crisis, which was only 15-20 years before. It’s a tumultuous period, but you look back at it now and you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah. ‘Top Gun.’ Cocaine!’ Like, ‘No!’ It was really scary.”
In Apple TV’s “Mayday,” Reynolds stars as a U.S. Navy pilot who builds an unlikely friendship with an eccentric ex-KGB agent (Kenneth Branagh) obsessed with ’80s American culture.
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My ten favorite Dolly Parton songs: (1) 9 to 5; (2) I Will Always Love You; (3) Here You Come Again; (4) Jolene; (5) Light of a Clear Blue Morning; (6) Tennessee Mountain Home; (7) Islands in the Stream; (8) Coat of Many Colors; (9) Just Because I'm a Woman; (10) Backwoods Barbie
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Stu Holden’s voice sounds almost exactly like Mary Carillo’s. When I first heard it, I had to check to see whether Mary Carillo had started broadcasting soccer. In any event, they are both very good announcers.
I'm proud of the work that we did at the Pai FCC to make 988 the 3-digit number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. At the time, we thought this would save lives. And a new study suggests that it has already prevented thousands of suicides.
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An Illinois man went to a Washington DC train station Saturday for what could have been a normal morning getting his shoes shined. But less than an hour later, his life would drastically change as the police would arrest him for shooting President James Garfield.
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Happy 115th Birthday to Ronald Reagan! Few, if any, have done more to advance the cause of freedom in my lifetime than our nation’s 40th President.