*squints eyes* I don’t.... think we’re in disagreement.

Five pounds?! Sweet summer child.

I mean, if there were 400 million Chinese living as subsistence farmers in the mid-nineteenth, and yes, floods and famines kept fertility down and mortality up.... but now there’s almost a Billion more Chinese, and suicide nets are a thing, are we really saying that Capitalism doesn’t produce poverty? I mean, it would…

How many has it put into poverty?

Hear me out. I know this is an unmitigated disaster for, you know, all of us. But I feel bad for him? Like a terrible person lost their mind, and I'd rather have my knees smashed then lose my mind. This is terrifying.

Hmm... two and a half hours to Portland, with it’s wonderful food and beer, or one and a half to Worcester. Let me carefully weigh my options.

Now a debt-ridden toilet!

If you have time, read Richardson’s To Make Men Free — it posits a broad pendulum of Republican ideals, from the Freedom to acquire wealth (a level playing ground for all), to the Freedom to maintain wealth (a tax cut for you, and for you, no, not you, you’re not rich enough). In 2014 it seemed to desperately hope…

Simpler times.

Wait, who invited John Dean? What the hell is John Dean’s job, for the past forty years? Are we going to ask Woodrow Wilson’s shoeshine boy next?

Who are you talking to?

Oh, crap. I read the whole thing as J.D. Salinger, and was like “Yeah, I’ve already processed that he’s a terrible person.” And then I read your comment, and my heart broke.

A kid I was tutoring said his crossfit gym had like a ton of different levels of weights laid out. I forget if it was a dozen, or two dozen. But he started at the heaviest, went to muscle failure, moved down a few pounds, and started again. It sounded like living hell, but I’m curious if it works.

You knew I was a snake when you took me in.

I'm a white dude, and that seems like a very awkward pose to hold accidentally. I have a fair amount of manual tics, and that would never accidentally be one of them.

People are saying she’s been calling Pence “Daddy”, and it seems to be working for him.

Obviously Ivanka.

Wow, I feel extremely targeted here, Drew.

Ivanka. Calling it now.

E-Scooters, fine? Bird, no. f*ck that shitty company.