I think I was 19 when I wrote an article saying that “conservatives are mostly in favor of pain and death”. I’m 40 now. Nothing about my experience since then has changed my opinion. 19-year-old me was a smart kid. I’d like to meet him, buy him a beer, er, soda pop.

I mean, I felt sure I had bought a box of N95's years ago for spray-painting and carpentry work (power sanding, drywall) but wasn’t sure where they’d gone or how many I’d used and thrown out. So I combed my basement and found FOURTEEN in various places, all in their original sealed plastic baggies. Kept 6 for my…

It’s like I said upthread: This makes sense: Most of the best loot is found in the Crypt Levels. 

Makes sense: Most of the best loot is found in the Crypt Levels.

So I swallowed all these goldfish FOR NOTHING?!

I really want a breakout of “NYC and adjacent counties” versus the rest of the state. I live in NYS but our county has 16 cases. Two weeks ago we had 11. Seems like we are handling it.

You don’t know what ‘logarithmic’ means, do you?

During Katrina, armed police officers blocked both major bridges out of New Orleans. They shot people who tried to cross and used helicopters to blow away their tents. Blocking off major cities is very much ‘how this country works’.

The analogy I keep thinking of is AIDS: Before too long everyone knew what caused it, knew you could avoid it with condoms and clean needles . . . but the discos never closed and Fire Island was wild every summer. Harsh as it is, most people prefer to live a bit before they die.

Calling it now: This year’s top “Sexy” Halloween costume: Nothing but three strategically placed N95 masks.

So, what do we all think about this year’s Halloween costumes? Will girls wearing nothing but three strategically placed N95 masks (surely in wide supply by then) be sexy, funny or neither?

Well for starters, they only just built this boat fer chrissakes.

Could we have Mr. Bean be in the Mandalorian instead?

So about as many as we killed in Iraq OR Vietnam?

It was great when it did about 75% of the heavy lifting in defeating Hitler. Seriously, Normandy was a stupid sideshow. Hitler was defeated by the USSR in the East, full stop.

I’m already living comfortably on my monthly SorosBux checks that I get.

Eh. Given the way we chew up and spit out celebrities eventually--ESPECIALLY young women--makes me subscribe to the Frustrated Paganism thesis: That what we really want to do is sacrifice one or two of these sultry Pop Tarts every winter solstice to make the sun come back and propitiate the gods. But instead we just…

I like to think of myself as a sex toy. I’ll suggest to the woman in my life that she wash me, too.

I like to think of myself as a sex toy. I’ll suggest to the woman in my life that she wash me, too.

Why not? We used to remanufacture ships all the time. As a kid in school we went to the Buffalo and Erie County Naval Park and saw the USS Little Rock. There was a whole exhibit about how it was stripped to the waterline and rebuilt from a standard heavy-gun WW2 cruiser to a Korean War era missile cruiser.

Each large-ticket military thingy we build is essentially a net socioeconomic defeat for us. This, the Littoral Combat Ship, the F-35, the Osprey, whatever that scout/tank/APC vehicle was/is, Space Force, that gas that was supposed to turn enemy soldiers gay, Star Wars: Each one of these is just a giant embodiment of…