Imagine writing another song called Stay, when Lisa Loeb already wrote the perfect one.

If I had my way, then Dahl's books would be in the public domain by now and anyone could publish any version they wanted. But if we're going to have copyright extend for decades after the author's death then the copyright holders are going to be the ones deciding whether to make edits. Maybe they make good decisions, or maybe they make dumb ones (I think some of the edits here are pretty clumsy and pointless, and it seems likely if Dahl were alive he'd object to at least some of them), but since Dahl is dead the people who he left the rights to are going to have to make these calls much as Dahl did when he was alive. It's totally fine to criticize them, but the idea that books never get changed or that Dahl's books never got changed when he was alive is just not true.

Except he did make changes to the Oompa-Loompas in the second edition. As always, it depends on the changes, some changes he was ok with, and some he didn’t want.

What are you talking about? Even if he played those two years, he's still only at 14 seasons when he retired the second time. Hell, even if he hadn't retired the first time or second time, he'd still only be at 19 seasons when he retired the third time!

Shout out to my local coffee shop!

https://twitter.com/cameronesposito/status/1008374354978246656

Not to “why?”

Kinda wish you'd included Obama (and maybe Bush too?) to have a better reference point.

No one knows or cares what the media is saying about him, the whole point of this graph is that people just aren't paying much attention to him. He's not a reality TV star and the news is back to being boring stuff no one watches rather than competing with reality TV.

Biden making politics boring and normal again, just like he was elected to do.

Ah, I see, I missed that clause.

Why doesn't Sioux make the cut in South Dakota? Seems to meet those criteria.

Klay is by far the most replaceable of their stars.