I am never not thinking about this

I mean it was already like that when DFW was alive, the mediums we have now just didn't exist in the same way. Boomers spent a large part of their freetime watching Ricky Lake and Jerry Springer essentially staring into the circus of American depravity for fun.

Inshallah

Today in why Abundance loves fuzzy words like "left" and reacts to tariffs and anti-monopoly like vampires to garlic

If the Coens' overwhelming if at-least-close-to-hopeless pity reads to you as contempt maybe there's a reason

Muslim poasting about how we was kings but the Hilalian invasion

NEW from Drop Site and me as a regime change ramps up in VEN: - There is little to no mass fentanyl from VE - The Rubio camp is telling Trump the best way to secure VE oil is if Maduro is ousted - The US is funneling millions of USAID type $ to regime change groups in LATAM

It's funny how people say the Coen brothers' subject is non-Jews like Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing didn't happen

That last one in such a shameless lie - I get it, it's normal, Roosevelt, Thaddeus, whoever talked a lot of nonsense too, it's a question of whether you think they're YOUR liar or not - but remember that if her poorest constituents had their way Joe Crowley would have her job

This is essentially correct but of course it had nothing to do with being reasonable and just proves yuppies live for their internal food services empire like everyone already knew

You're all looking at this wrong, after supporting apartheid Paul Simon wrote Rhythm of the Saints like he hadn't written since Bridge Over Troubled Water, that record he's working on might come out great

What's interesting is the evasions 1. obviously it was Japan that surpassed "West" modernity, then Korea, and that's how progress has spread in Asia since at least the 1850s 2. Russia surpassed "the West" - if only by sinking less - its own way, without Asian influence

It's ok to admit you've never opened a certain not-all-that-good-but-epochally-addictive book

We was kings

If Britain invented the steam engine Thomas Battishill would be as famous as Tchaikovsky

Emmanuel Todd used to tell a story about how French would wish their country could be orderly and productive and small government like Germany and he'd say "That's easy, we just have to kill 1/3 of our young people"