David Freddoso
@freddoso
Latinist and formal logician. Deputy opinion editor, The Hill. Send me your opeds: dfreddoso at thehill dot com God, Country, Notre Dame.
Latin’s a dead language As dead as dead can be It killed off all the Romans And now it’s killing me. And if the world were all to flood and everyone to die, I'd sit upon this Latin book Because it's so damned dry. -Anonymous Latin student
The judge is going nuclear on Kohberger. He's lucky the sentence is essentially predetermined.
It's only just occurring to me now that every time I see a baby photo in my "Home" feed it's probably 100% fake and engagement slop. These accounts have one post after another about how "this is my new baby," "my kid just got out of surgery," "I'm a doctor," "I'm a farmer," "this…
Married for 10years, and this is our first child. Maybe no one will say it, but we want to share this joy anyway.
This might just be the most shameless engagement slop I've ever seen. Earlier, this account was claiming it was getting heart surgery tomorrow using multiple photos of different people.
At 3:00am today. I became a Mother! After 10 years of marriage, our first child !🥰Maybe no one will say it, but we want to share this joy anyway.🌹May every person who wishes us well be blessed! 🙏👶💙
By the way, today is the day I was originally supposed to show up for jury selection in Bryan Kohberger's trial. He pleaded guilty instead, so the hundreds of us who had been called up were all excused. Sentencing is Wednesday morning, and Kohberger is going to get four lifes…
Remember back when people were protesting at Tesla dealerships? It feels like forever ago. One anti-Musk protester at the dealership in Meridian, Idaho got a bit out of hand. He hit a counterdemonstrator with his car. He was arrested and brought up on felony battery charges. I…
If I had a nickel for every time I saw antisemites try this out only to find out the guy is actually Italian, I'd have at least three dollars.
This dude is barking up the wrong tree. I'm a Roman Catholic of Italian American extraction.
Wow, the Dodgers finally show up to play and tie it up after a 4-0 deficit. I was about to file a formal complaint about them rolling over for the Brewers.
I used it today to listen to the Cubs beat the Red Sox.
Did you own one of these?