Wouldn’t you figure out how to beat the boss on the, like, 4th reincarnation?

That’s, at a minimum, the entire point of the pickle Rick episode.  It’s like Vonnegut’s MO of telling you exactly the theme/purpose of a book.  The therapist’s speech at the end it clear and undeniably explicit on the matter.

I would imagine so.  What’s your 21 years later take on American Pie?  ;-)

Fight, fight, fight...

Well aware of that.

I understand.

Yep.

Do it.

I, too, am of your age cohort and I’ve been watching it all this past weekend and actually enjoying when taking it with an open minded grain of salt (as I haven’t really followed Lebowitz actively at all during my 42+ years on this Earth). I view it as less a letter to NYC and more a musing on the nature of change,…

DOJ, if you’re listening (I know...silly question) arrest this man at 1p on 1/20/21 for sedition and inciting insurrection.

I didn’t get the sense that McCullough underplayed the terribleness of the Alien/Sedition Act, but he certainly is a fan of Adams for sure, but without compromising objectively. The Act was terrible then and now, but a couple minor and major mistakes in such a long prominent political life shouldn’t overshadow the…

I got mine for $1 at the local Friends of the Library sale shelf in the front of the Library.  One of the best spent $1 in a long time.

Plowed through the 2001 John Adams biography by David McCullough. It’s very good and quite prescient given the waning days of the 2020 Presidential election and the country’s political divisiveness we currently have.

More like a lighter tone A History Violence meets Mr. Wick.

Well, the Mayans built huge ziggurats, but never invented wheeled transport (and this was on our own planet), so...the infinite probability of an infinite universe, I guess.

Meh.

Though, this time of year or March you typically don’t have to worry about the E. Coli blooms. 

As native of the shores of Lake Huron, having lived ~8 years in Chicagoland and now only ~20 miles from the Lake Erie shoreline, I agree and fully endorse this method of therapy.

Agreed.

Agreed. The Trump family ‘appears’ to exemplify these traits, but with the benefit of money to paper over the negative consequences, but that only lasts so long.