Meanwhile, at JazzFest, even though it was the last day, I heard Zydeco, swamp rock, Kermit Ruffin’s tribute to Louis Armstrong and some gutbucket blues. I ate Shrimp and Grits, Shrimp Creole, Smoked Turkey and Alligator Sausage Gumbo, Begniets and Mango Freeze, washed down with iced and hot Cafe au Lait. I made a…

It’s just a pile of buzzwords on the edge of a grammatical cliff.

The Marxist in me has entertained the notion of capital punishment for white collar crimes

LET HE OR SHE WHO HAS NOT ACCIDENTALLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT MEMBERSHIP IN A NEO NAZI ORGANIZATION CAST THE FIRST STONE

Literally sharing ghoulish glee is the only reason I want to get married someday

We would have also accepted; “like, because it’s pretty fucking easy.”

Like, why would anyone try to actually scam us?

Hahhahah he wanted people to go to college and not be crushed by debt, sick burn

It’s not an unpopular opinion. It’s a ridiculous oversimplification.

Glorification is virtually unavoidable in cinema. Yeah, Boyle made a solid effort to show every dark and gloomy potential result from heroin addiction, but he also did it with a snappy as hell Brit pop soundtrack, just as snappy dialogue and editing, a cast led by two fairly handsome chaps who quite often seemed to be…

I hope he accidentally steps so that both legs end up in prairie dog holes and nobody is around to help him, so he’s stuck forever.

What, did a tailor make this? You wear suits off the rack and tape your tie in place like a grown man! *slap*

....If only everyone who ended up doing hard drugs was raised in a nice, level-headed environment which engendered high amounts of self-confidence and esteem and imparted myriad stress-reduction mechanisms aside from substance abuse.

....if only.....

“Gianforte does not believe that retirement is consistent with biblical teachings, pointing to Noah still working at age 600. He said, “There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement.”

movie concept: kidnapping evil rich people and then set them free in a forest and hunt them.

It’s a form of attrition, as I understand it. The employee is constantly interacting customers, one after the other, while the customer is only interacting with that employee once, or maybe a few more times. From the employee’s perspective, it’s a nonstop barrage of bullshit, while from the customer’s perspective,…

Does this mean that Athena DIDN’T burst forth from her father’s skull, fully formed?

Kissinger’s reputation is based on the fact that a) he’s really smart and b) was very effective at getting what he wanted, which is the primary metric of diplomatic talent. The problem was that as a strategist (and a human being), “what Kissinger wants” and “what’s good for the U.S. and humanity” were frequently,…

Here I was about to set all this extra money on fire. I never considered a vacation!

This is the first time I’ve realized that Eric and Donald Jr. are two people. I always thought people referred to Eric sarcastically as Donald Jr.