as the calamity bears down upon us, we will have to live with the knowledge that it was we, all of us, who drove Larry and Olivia together.

sometimes people get off on technicalities, sometimes it’s the technicalities that get them on…

maybe it’s just like al capone’s tax evasion wasn’t categorically worse than other things he did, yet it nevertheless made some sense to focus on it?

24k gold pigskin coming right up.

this website is a nest of logoterrorists.

still have netflix, actively boycotting prime.

if i were better at video stuff i’d make a version of this replacing that weird screensaver backdrop with footage of caribbean boat strikes in a loop.

how many Americans are killed every year due to collisions involving foreign-produced automobiles? surely the President has the inherent authority to protect Americans and use the armed forces to blow up cargo ships full of these deadly machines. tariffs are for pinheads.

it gets hard to see the turf through the astroturf.

#providential

maybe drone assassinations really were a dangerous precedent.

ours is really the only society to take the Balzac witticism seriously. “Behind every great fortune there is a great crime.” we wanted a lot of great fortunes, so we set about encouraging great crimes.

i’m honored to be lost in the same mists!

the future is an experiment. it always has been.

yes. that’s what i’m thinking about, The West Wing. i guess it’s all lost in the mists of time to me!

how do you watch people struggle not to drown for 41 minutes when you have resources to help you could dispatch with a word but instead order they be bombed?

it’s basically the only thing i remember from that show, that speech. customs honored in the breach, sure, but i did think the speech reflected the values my country at least aspired to.

sometimes i think we should have just clapped for jeb.

not just.

look, if you are sure that god’s own truth is that you are perfection, then whatever makes you look bad is a hoax QED.