Avalon is a gorgeous album. Have never tired of it.

The sun doesn't really 'wash', does it? You really can't 'wash away' rain, can you? They didn't think it through.

Bono wept.

I appreciate that, but I think the point stands.

Not directed at you, but it's so absurd hearing about how high-stress it is. Too high-stress to perform the job properly? Why did you join? Fucking quit.

Quite hard if they joined the force for that express opportunity. Hard to believe given the ubiquitous thanking of them for their public service as though it were volunteer work, but some of them didn't actually join out of a spirit of total self-sacrifice, but more because they really enjoy violence.

I don't know, I find them kind of charming. How long that would last, I'm not sure.

I wish we could invite these people over here en masse and have a dialogue with them. For our mutual enrichment.

What if Vince Gill revived the X-Files? Ever think about that?

PJ HARVEY. NEW ALBUM.

Not to mention the domestic black sites. He seems like a lovely man, though, I'm sure his heart was in the right place.

God found out about it at the same time as the rest of us, evidently.

What's creepy about their approach, in general, is that it's that of a cult: oneself and one's concerns are not dead and meaningless to them only inasmuch as you submit to the totality of their worldview. There's no scope for a rational, good-faith dialogue. It's a very objectifying, instrumentalizing way of…

She also has a sort of earnest, easy smile that seems to suggest she isn't enamoured of her own cuteness, which is a big plus.

I don't think there's a more despicable locution than 'thinkpiece'.

Twas ever thus.

We all need to reduce our fuck consumption. If you're in want of a fuck, you may be able to find repurposable, discarded materials which can be fasioned into one.

Possession of dinosaur bones is the telos of any well-ordered life.

It was a face-off because it pitted two adversaries against one another.
But also . . . he literally took his face off.

Real dinosaur bones.