Rahm and Ari have an older brother who's an oncologist. Not sure if he's "famous" in the way you're talking about but he's the guy who was the target of a lot of that "death panel" nonsense from Palin and her ilk.
Zeke Emmanuel? I'd say he's relatively famous.
So much so that we don't even have to google proof.
Late Gaddafi crony Billy Carter had a brother who's done a lot of good work to eliminate tropical diseases.
We've even posted here before about the doctor Emmanuel being a dumbass.
I hate Rick Bayless and his stupid mustache. Mostly because of an excruciatingly long Topolobampo dinner I was socially required to sit through with my ex's uncle. The guy spends 3 hours showing us wedding pictures on his iPhone and listing every single expensive wine they served. The wedding was like a year and a half before. Meanwhile I had just gotten done with some pickup hoops and was super-hungry, but everything on Topolobampo's menu is like, tiny servings of nonsense with gross artistically drizzled sauce to justify the price. At least I wasn't paying. But I would have paid the cost of the meal not to be there.
Tying it in further with the "evil brothers" theme... that uncle? A circuit judge you might have heard of by the name of Frank E. His brother is also famous and has done a bit of writing for ESPN and the Atlantic, goes by Greg-with-a-third-g...
Also, Frontera's menu is needlessly complicated and, like Topolobampo, justifies its prices with ridiculous sauce drizzles. I hope Chipotle competes that shit into Bolivian.
Trump's older brother: "a fun-loving airline pilot with a gift for imitating W.C. Fields", "lacked the killer instinct".
Deval Patrick's father is the avant garde jazz musician Sun Ra. Which of these is the evil depends on whether you think being a liberal working as a lawyer for the Coca Cola company is better or worse than free jazz.
Sorry, meant to write that his father was a musician that played with Sun Ra.
The crackpot reactionary Ludwig Von Mises was brother to the mathematician Richard Von Mises.
"I can't operate on this Emmanuel! He's my brother!" How can this be?!?
I suppose Gary and Philip Neville would be cheating.
Deval Patrick's father is the avant garde jazz musician Sun Ra.
I don't think this is true. It was sure fun having my mind blown for a few moments there when I believed it, though.
Trader Joe and Aldi are brothers. Aldi is definitely the bad brother.
Were Goofus and Gallant brothers?
The whole series is really an elaborate retelling of The Brothers Karamazov. This becomes most obvious when (Spoiler Alert) you get to the one where Goofus murders his father and Gallant joins a monastery.
Christopher and Peter Hitchens.
Giles and Victoria Coren.
Gareth Bale and Christian Bale. (Not actually brothers at all, and I don't know which would be good and which bad. On the one hand there's this https://www.buzzfeed.com/brade7/bale-vs-bale-why-christian-bale-is-superior-dpu9? but otoh there's Wales in the quarter finals.)
"Edwin Booth and his younger brother John Wilkes Booth were, in many ways, two of a kind. They were among America's finest actors, having inherited their father's commanding stage presence along with his penchant for alcohol and impulsive behavior. In other respects, the two brothers were very different. Edwin was more introspective, while John was known for his passionate intensity. They stood at opposite poles politically, as well: Edwin voted for Abraham Lincoln; John was an ardent advocate of the Confederacy."
Ironically, John would be far more welcome in the Republican Party of today.
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Have you been to Xoco? It's pricy for sandwiches but I think it's pretty good. It's the only Bayless place in my budget, but from what I've heard it might be the best value for money of all his places.
For New Yorkers, don't you have TV journalist Chris Cuomo and his governor brother? I remember a segment collecting the put downs Andrew slides in whenever they share a show.
The "there's one bullet left in your gun. Who do you kill, hotshot?" question is surprisingly difficult as between John Wilkes Booth and Skip Bayless.
I've seen Deadpool. I know that I don't have to choose. Maximum effort.
The Memory Palace had a good episode on the brothers Booth.
19.1 The Hitchens Bros were chalk and cheese, but arguable both evil in the end.
Favorite Edwin Booth trivia:
Edwin Booth saved Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, from serious injury or even death. The incident occurred on a train platform in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Robert had slipped off the platform when a train moved.)
For a long time, highbrow conservatives treated Jeb and George W. Bush as fitting something like this pattern: George W. as the embarrassing doofus, Jeb as the serious statesman. I don't know if that's still a common opinion. I think Jeb's star has fallen as people have seen more of him, and George W.'s star has risen as memories of his administration fade.
Not brothers, but Paul Auster's cousin Lawrence Auster was a Jewish convert to Episcopalianism and became a "traditionalist conservative" writer who later affiliated himself with VDARE and Stormfront and the like.
Not brothers, but Paul Auster's cousin Lawrence Auster was a Jewish convert to Episcopalianism and became a "traditionalist conservative" writer who later affiliated himself with VDARE and Stormfront and the like.
And of course there is the case of Eli and Peyton Manning.
I see your Mannings and raise you Afflecks.
I like how "the James brothers" refers to either Frank and Jesse or To William and Henry depending on audience.
The Poincare brothers are another nice pair.
Googling, I learned that visionary mathematician Paul Painleve was minister of war and also Prime Minister, maybe he'll come up in the next Tooze threads.
Mehmed the Conqueror's Law of Fratricide states: "Whichever of my sons inherits the sultanate, it behooves him to kill his brothers in the interest of world order. Most jurists have approved this; let action be taken accordingly." Consequently, investigation into powerful Ottoman siblings is necessarily pretty limited.
On the Booth brothers, I've read a lot of My Thoughts Be Bloody by Nora Titone, which goes into the Booth family dynamics in depth. She makes the case that Edwin was the one with real talent, having spent years on the road with their father learning the craft (while trying to keep Junius sober enough to perform), while John was the less-successful younger brother trying to coast on his looks and the family name. Edwin's famous division of the country between the two left him with the big-market cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, while pushing John south and west. But John's political views weren't as well formed as we think - he got in trouble in an early Southern tour by voicing pro-Union views in the wrong crowd. It was only later that his resentment solidified into pro-Southern sympathies partly in opposition to his brother.
Whitey and William Bulger. I guess maybe William counts as good.
Those Frontera tacos are my jam, I'm always looking for an excuse to pay too much for some of them at the one in Macy's. Cruz Blanca has underwhelmed. Haven't tried the new seafood place.
The Frontera thingy is basically the only edible food at O'Hare, so there is that. (Super expensive but what can you do).
Thank you. I knew I'd heard of that place before but couldn't think where. Next time I'll stop, unless I decide edible food at O'Hare is too unnatural to try.
I had tacos at Frontera Fresco at Macy's a couple of days ago. They're overpriced and not as good as I expected. They're just kind of...saucy. At least the mediocre tacos at La Cocina a few blocks away are only $2.50 each, rather than $4.75, or whatever Frontera charges. If I didn't have kids, I'd spend my weekends trying tacos around the city, but I do, so I spend my days critiquing tacos I eat in department stores. The Trib just ran a monthlong, pretty great series on tacos in the city.
Friends who went to Topo a number of years ago said that it lived up to the hype, but that was also at a time when the local scene was nascent enough that their standards may have been too low.
I think I knew that about Rick & Skip, but didn't want to admit it, so down the memory hole.
Locally there are brother Ste/gerwald, one of whom is a mildly annoying sports announcer*, the other of whom is a 3rd rate conservative hack for RM Scaife. A particularly nasty one. But the "one bullet" answer there is clearly Ste/gerwald pére circa 1950.
*I believe oudemia despises him in his Penguins role
Oh huh so it is in Macy's. I was at a conference with someone who really wanted to eat lunch at Frontera and tried to lead a bunch of us there with the map on his phone, which led us to a Macy's entrance, at which point he got pissed off at Google Maps and we went elsewhere.
The Frontera thingy is basically the only edible food at O'Hare, so there is that. (Super expensive but what can you do).
I go to Chili's Too. It's expensive too, but it's the same price as a normal Chili's as far as I can tell, instead of the usual airport markup.
I like to fly through Midway. They have roast chicken.
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And I was just ranting about Chili's on Twitter this morning.
"Young man shakes fist at franchise."
I remember eating at one frequently, but that was in Ohio and back in the 90.
There's only one dining option at O'Hare that has world historical significance.
Hegel's Bagels, the dialectic of deliciousness
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