Read David Graeber’s book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. As it notes, we’re already in a place where automation has decimated much of the manufacturing industry in the U.S., but what has replaced those jobs is not the realization that we don’t need to work to live, but instead we’ve created a whole world of administrative…

I remember hearing a story a long time ago about Brando late in his career first meeting a director he was going to be working with. Apparently he did two versions of a performance, and depending on which one the director preferred, he’d either commit to the role or (literally) phone it in. I don’t know if that story…

What the fuck is a “racial collectivist”? Is that someone who believes in the radical idea that the United States is a nation of immigrants from all cultures and all races, and that fact works out to our benefit? As for the Western Culture thing, Italians and Irish were excluded from Western Culture a little over a…

The first thing I learned to cook outside of microwaving junk or just putting a slab of meat on a skillet was fried rice.

She probably doesn’t love being First Lady. The money, on the other hand...

Are you fucking kidding me?

My guess is because Trump is an unstable moron who is unfit for his job.

Everybody is triggered by Monopoly. It’s a game that is designed to make all the players hate one another.

So Willie Brown has enough power in California to coerce voters to elect a senator, even though he and Harris were long broken up by then, Harris had married, and Brown was basically retired from politics. Riiiiiiiight...

I don’t want to be Mr. Red!

The one thing I remember about the show (other than the fact that I went to school with the set designer) is that when Don Johnson always found a parking space right in front of wherever he was going in San Francisco. Even in the 90s, that was absurd.

So clearly what we need to do is get rid of all of the German-Americans, Italian-Americans, and Irish-Americans who aren’t able to assimilate into the larger body of British heritage. Mushy peas for everyone!

What a bunch of insipid nonsense.