Al hamdu lillaa

I’ve always been skeptical of people who say things like, “I can’t speak Spanish, but my parents do, so I understand it.” They’re clearly lying, right? Wrong. I finally know what all these pseudo-Hispanophones are getting at, as I recently realized I understand an extraordinary amount of Arabic, though I am barely competent at counting.
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He’s so raven

So maybe I missed something not living in Pittsburgh proper, but this exemplary article from the Washington Post informs me that Pittsburgh’s incumbent mayor was, at 26 years old in 2006, the youngest person to ever be elected as mayor in a major U.S. city. Pretty cool, right? Oh, he gets cooler — so much [...]