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Puerto Rico
If we admit them, we’ll have to admit a slave state too. It’s more complicated than it looks.
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the best age
The twenties were the best. Hardly anyone you knew was dying.
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Memo to termites
If you’re so attracted to light, there’s a god damn sun on all during the daytime you can feel free to mob. Fucking things.
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A Given
It is the Lord’s will that you not remain sober all the days of your lives. It pleases Him that you do not.
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Who are the adults of the adult world? Lawyers. That’s why everybody hates them, and nobody can do without them.
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Trump is a moron.
In a Vanity Fair story: “Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about G.C.H.Q. being asked to conduct ‘wiretapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense,” the British spy agency said in a notably pointed statement. “They are utterly … Continue reading
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Let’s keep one thing straight
People, the only reason we know about things is the press. People. We wouldn’t know about Russia or China or global warming or Trump or Wikileaks without the press. We wouldn’t know fuck-all. The press is *how* we’re free. People, … Continue reading
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salute to progress
We die more complicatedly and with more nuance than ever before. In comparison, the ways our fathers and mothers died were larks, pieces of cake. Smug, but as citizens of the 21st century, the best century, we’re entitled to be smug. I … Continue reading
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death of lol. Also, asshat.
“Lol is dead, Facebook says — ‘haha’ is the new way to say that you’re laughing“ Also, Burger King and their yip advertising gimmick What a bunch of transparent asshats. Can I say ‘asshat’ anymore? First they came for … Continue reading
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Moondogs
I saw them on a trip Deep South, and then again on another trip Deep South, during the last few months. They are spectacular. Clearly, they are not spectacular in the way that bombs exploding or cop cars careering through … Continue reading
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that Passat commercial with the woman who gives the ‘fuck me’ glance to the guy who knows the lyrics to ‘Rocket Man’
is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I am not happy with Volkswagen commercializing fuck-me glances. Not happy.
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run like hell, part 3
This pell-mell stampede toward reducing everything to a list is killing me. Are we that stupid? Are the media that cynical? Are we now god damn babies who can’t think or attend to anything unless it’s in bullet format? Hell: … Continue reading
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run like hell, part 2
AP: A guide for fliers worried about Ebola outbreak If you’re too busy to click through to the guide, I’ve distilled its essence, dumped it down the kitchen sink, and replaced it with a more concise, useful guide: “1. stop worrying … Continue reading
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My new superlative
“I don’t give a flying fuck at a rat’s ass” Although it saddens me to discover that phrase doesn’t google empty.
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remember Cold Fusion?
Heh, that was some funny shit right there. But is there a reason to think we were more gullible and moronic in 1989 than we are today? No, there is not. Fuck you, CNN.
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goals
1. outlive David Attenborough. 2. outlive Queen Elizabeth II My goals have sort of telescoped the last few years.
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