I can verify that this works.

I have a hard time getting behind a song titled "We A Famly".

Great book.

Supposedly Fun Thing is a great book. I'm a bit of a DFW fanboy so take it with a grain of salt.

Catcher in the Rye is a great, misunderstood book. All of Salinger's stuff is fantastic actually. Ignore the haters.

That's a fair complaint. But I try not to withhold my empathy just because someone isn't empathetic to me. Not that that's easy.

I don't suppose you've read Hillbilly Elegy? Not about Trump specifically but there's a very thoughtful, nuanced discussion of this in that book (plus it's a great book).

I would love to read it! I saw Simpsons at a babysitter's house, but no Seinfeld till I was an adult.

Ha! Sometimes I feel I'm still (at 33) too young to really appreciate Proust. But I loved Swann's Way. Will probably read the second one this year.

I'm loosely doing this this year as well. I love the white guys but not to the exclusion of everything else.

Are you planning all of Proust this year? I read book 1 last year and loved it but felt like I needed some time before jumping into book 2.

Serious question: how can you have never seen the Simpsons or Seinfeld? I grew up in a church that thought TVs were evil and I still managed to see a lot of them.

DFW is great! But that's not why I'm here…

Multiple books at one time seems to be a binary thing. Either you always do it (me) or never do it (my wife, Caitlyn?). I don't understand how voracious readers do one at a time. I usually have a novel, a general nonfiction, a theology or philosophy book, and sometimes some light fiction going on at once. it does take…

I too make the distinction between "Trump voter" and "Trump supporter" and it does help me to see where you're coming from more clearly.

We are in accord. :)

I agree that it was stupid. I spent the last part of 2016 really depressed about this stupid election. But at the same time, I have friends and family that, because I know them, I know don't fit into this simplistic binary of "intelligent Clinton voters" and "Trumptards". They DID vote against their interests—I'm…

It's no skin off my back if you wan to treat Trump voters as subhuman. But I think it's a mistake.

I love the empathy on display here. I can't imagine why people wouldn't want to be like you.

The fact that it somehow makes giving an unsuspecting guy a box full of bees feel poignant has to put it up in the greatest of all time bracket.