Trying that new diet where I'm consumed by the thought of my own mortality. So slimming!
I wish we could send people strength and courage and hope as tangible things in care packages. A little tumbler of tenacity tucked under the mini muffins. A carafe of confidence keeping it all warm.
Tom Petty died seven years ago today. One of the AV Club Inventory columns I most enjoyed conceiving and writing was this tribute to Petty's knack for writing a killer opening line. www.avclub.com/inventory-14...
14 classic Tom Petty opening lines
The October Surprise is that it’s October 2024 and there are still people who support him.
The reason Ta-Nehisi Coates scares so much of America's intelligentsia and commentariat is because when he says that Israeli rule over Palestinians is just another, hyper militarized Jim Crow regime there's basically nothing to dispute. You can see it with your own eyes. This is why everyone is mad.
It is not antisemitic to defend Palestinian human rights. And it’s past time for more American Jews to say so to correct a media that’s lost the thread.
if the news refuses to use the word "fascism" to define what's happening, how about "hillbilly hitlerism."
Is there a Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Nothing extremely horrible has happened yet but I'm paralyzed by the anxiety that it'll be a doozy.
JD Vance's opinion of Trump didn't change. His opinion of Hitler did.
Like AI, JD Vance is powered by amoral tech billionaires and is adept at producing strings of words that sound good to people who don't know much and don't care if those words are untrue or were uttered by a real human possessed of a conscience.
those people who give water to runners only it’s someone who shoves mashed potatoes into my mouth as i walk to my car