One or two, I think.

I'm saddened by it. I really want there to be a place that's better that's just a plane ride away. Knowing that a Scandinavian country, where they manage to get a lot of things really right, from the way their prisons are run to the size and strength of their social services infrastructure, also has Nazi assholes…

That question isn't going to help as much as you might think it would.

Not really.

The complete societal rupture suffered by Western Europe during and after WW2 seems to have gone a long way toward separating the two. Maybe once we make it through the end of the United States as it exists now and begin the rebuilding, we'll catch up.

You really should visit. It's very nice here. Fly into Burbank or Long Beach or even Orange County, rent a car, and have a blast.

It's astonishing how the puritan/Calvinist conflation of poverty and moral inferiority is still with us.

Sadly, the Scarlet Brotherhood votes en bloc.

Crafty. Maybe clever.

What's weird is that I've ridden the subway far more times than I've been on a bus in LA.

That actually helps immensely. Thank you. Like I said, I'm still processing a lot of stuff here.

"I'm proud to be an American,
Where at least I know I'm free,
Even if the price we pay for that,
Is a bus that smells like pee."

I'm glad we had to go all the way to Norway to find a bunch of dumb bigots to make fun of.

I think I'm allergic to ASMR, as the videos I've experienced filled me with rage rather than relaxing me.

I thought it was the mineral that vicodin is extracted from.

Yeah. I'm still very much in the process of figuring this out. Today is my first full day off since Sunday, July 23, and it's all still kind of raw. I'm sure I can get my head into a better place with some rest and diversion (we're going to the Orange County Fair in a few hours!) but I kind of needed to vent. Thanks…

As long as they don't miss these amazing Labor Day Toyotathon deals. Get $2000 cash back on Camry, 0% financing on a new RAV-4!

I know I'm about to sound like an entitled asshole, but the last week of work has got me thinking a lot about the choices I didn't make, or got wrong, and I feel like shit for it. I'm good at what I do, and the people who count recognize this. It's not out of the question that I could end up with another promotion…

Say hello to the dinosaurs in the Primordial World for me.

Yes! That's why you have to read the ingredients list.