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As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp.
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Everybody knows that funeral rites and respect for the wishes and dignity of the dead is as close to a universal human value as there is, one that pre-dates the written word. What my thesis presupposes is, maybe it isn’t? My latest for the Atlantic:

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We love a green roundboi don’t we folks

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I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

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It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

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At some point someone will explicate a unified theory of post genres like Why Isn’t The News Talking About (Thing I Found Out From The News) and Why Aren’t Schools Teaching About (Thing That Schools Absolutely Are Teaching About, You Were Just Too High Or Horny At The Time To Notice They Were)

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Clarification on a previous post: it was Geraldo (not Gerardo) who exposed the non-existent Secrets Of Al Capone’s Vault; I apologize to Gerardo, the guy responsible for the hauntingly bad ‘90s radio hit “Rico Suave” who did not deserve to catch strays in this post

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When we were about to have a kid, the doctor’s office was quite unequivocal on the point: “We are not letting you out of this hospital without getting a TDAP booster, and you need to tell your parents to get them too if they want to visit their grandkid.”

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Instead of watching the parade, I had people over to play a game about, um, insanely corrupt crony capitalism and militarism run amok. So maybe only touching grass a leeeetle bit

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My baseline expectations were comically low and yet not nearly low enough

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The thing about fucking up understanding “Fortunate Son” as opposed to fucking up understanding, say, “Born In The USA” is that at least with the latter you have the tiny excuse of having only listened to the refrain, whereas “Fortunate Son” is wall-to-wall scorn for literally Donald Trump

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obligatory:

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The thing about threats of anonymous violence via the Internet is that they are easy to make, extremely traumatic to receive, and routinely treated by everyone else like the banal background noise of an online argument.

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daaaaaaaang

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They’re doing the meme. They have literally created the Day Without A Mexican from the movie A Day Without A Mexican

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“who watches the watchmen?” lmao what a dumb question. more watchmen, of course. easy. next question

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“Not enough online spaces serving up intermittently employed sitcom writers’ unfiltered thoughts about cum and dialectical materialism” is so far from being a problem that I worry about that the sentence barely registers

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A guy I knew in college both a) showed up with a DVD collection of the complete filmography of Carl Theodor Dreyer and b) insisted a bunch of us go and see The Core when it was playing in theaters

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Least successful Rufus Thomas song

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Anyways we're going to need to talk sooner or later about the recurring "marginalized person rejected by societal norms or institutions & lured into a radicalizing spiral until they're openly saying horrendous things & getting adulation" phenomenon or it's going to keep driving people to madness.

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You can switch up the strategy once and still have a chance to win the game. Once you’re in a position where you have to change course a second time, you’re toast

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this this all of this

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*covers drink* *reaches, slowly and in a non-threatening fashion, for the block button*

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One policy that I strongly believe in and try to practice day-to-day is “don’t encourage others to throw bricks you are not personally willing to throw yourself”

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