At first I was going to be angry, shocked and scared by this news. And then I decided that I refuse to be intimidated by or infuriated by a bunch of clown shoes, wannabe Nazis wearing polos and Chinos who took their Chrysler minivans to Walmart to buy a bunch of designer bamboo torches to protest the removal of statue…

Do these people know what happened under the Nazi regime or do they just do the salute because they think it’s cool? I’m seriously shocked, but I guess I’m just not realistic how the world works

Since that’s a Honda, we can safely assume those were all metric bolts.

Watching pacifist Jimmy Carter just go apeshit on Trump would be immensely gratifying

Well clearly you have not assessed the gravity of the situation.

My God, why??? I really feel like this is some political move that won’t actually be implemented. It just makes no sense. How are there people who care this much what you have going on in your pants?

It’s sort of a fact of life that you get used to around here

what a bunch of dirks.

skimming the beach on their ultra-low takeoffs and landings

The damage looks supraficial.

I typed out four paragraphs and deleted them because there is truly only one way to speak about these types of people:

Books on tape, particularly Kerouac. Smoke cigars. Argue with myself about my many failures in life. Really good compact disc collection to sing along to. Drove 34 hours from Wyoming to Philadelphia by myself only stopping a couple of times to eat and use the facilities that way. I think it helps if you are a flawed…

I used to need music, podcasts, news, all that to keep my self entertained. But my long roadtrips now (twice a year, 2000 miles r/t to see inlaws) are a welcome respite from a busy job, and I enjoy being completely unplugged during this time. No music, no news, nothing. This isn’t for everyone—or for me all the…

Stop trying to distract yourself or make it productive time. Be involved instead. Look out the window and think about your life or what it must be like to live in the place you’re driving through.

“shake you like a blender once you cross the Louisiana-Texas boarder”

Never much had a need to entertain myself. I find the open road to be endlesssly entertaining in and of itself. Did 2700 miles in 2 days, eastern PA to Seattle, Washington. Was not bored for a moment of it.

If I’m alone, and I don’t do them too often, in my adult life I’ve been able to lull myself into this sort of tantric meditation that keeps me really alert, albeit basically suffering from the effects of priapism by the end of the trip.

They’re only supposed to turn up there slowly, though.

The day Tom died, I sent my local NPR station the biggest donation I had ever made to a charity of any kind with a note to keep airing Car Talk as long as they could. I don’t care it’s not new, I still get a big grin when I hear that banjo music on Saturday morning.

What the fuck is realclearpolitics.com???? Why is the son of the president  re-tweeting them???? Gosh, I’m so fucking mad. I’m waiting on a miscarriage and this makes me feel even more angry than my current shitty situation. I hate this country right now.