I think that literary circles of the future might appreciate American Psycho (the novel) more as we move farther away its actual setting in history. It has a marked synchronicity with Joris-Karl Huysmans’ 1884 novel À rebours. I actually knew of À rebours first because it was speculated to be the novel that afflicted…

[too late with the Curb gif, dammit]

What they forgot is that the Houthis have been hardscrabble warriors since forever and are fighting for their home while the Saudis have an officer corps composed of coward princes and an enlisted corps that are treated like shit by their inferior superiors.

It sounds like you were a great teacher. Paradoxically, exactly the kind of person we need teaching our kids. I completely understand and respect why you left, I just can’t help but feel reminded of, say, the many people fleeing the State Dept or the EPA., etc. But how to change an entire culture, even from within?…

TOO MANY WORDS MORE GUNS WERE THE ANSWER TO IRAQS PROBLEMS obvs

Watch this:

A white American general sciences

A questionable package arrives at their house, filled with white powder.

With regard to Skyler, I think it’s helpful to separate the audience/fan reaction and her actual writing/acting. She was a great character. I will admit that sometimes you loved to hate her, but that was almost all dramatic irony, because you as the viewer were privy to all sorts of events and machinations she simply…

Republican leaders seem to emit this inexplicable memory repulsion field, it’s quite a thing.

In the case of the Columbine killers, they were more likely (and reported) to be the bullies than they were to be the poor picked-on kids “just” getting revenge against those nasty jocks:

I think it’s more like This Is Just How Things Are Now.

The first is people who do not bother to learn what is actually being done by government and think there are easy solutions to all problems if only the two parties would join hands and sing Kumbyay.

Erik Prince being led away in cuffs would be quite a sight to behold. Jeremy Scahill would be positively tumescent.

My thing with de vos is that education is generally nonpartisan.

Don’t try to seduce me.

We can consolidate ICE’s workload into other agencies when we’ve effectively ended the War on Drugs. Unfortunately, the climate we’ve created has made a massive market for people to come here illegally and commit all sorts of ancillary crimes to the drug trade (weapons smuggling, sexual slavery) so Immigration…

Robert-> Beto is a South Texas thing. You know, where he’s from.

(Arnheim is a good sort, but a Master Mansplainer)