Glad someone is doing this, but depressed that it's necessary. www.recoverablegrants.org

It should be no surprise that there was a line going around the block for a free “fruit tree pick up.” I do love the Twin Cities.

“When you say you’re a Marxist-Leninist, could you be more specific?”

There was a legend that Hitler’s skull was in the Soviet Archives which was disproven after the fall of the USSR, but it sounds completely in character for Stalin to have commanded the Red Army to, “Bring me Hitler’s head!”

Tankies are so fucking obnoxious.

I don’t deny. I’ve seen them myself. I still refuse to believe such ridiculously cute creatures exist.

Highland cows don't exist. They're just a conspiracy of the Jim Henson studio.

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Yes.

Didn’t know that. It adds more layers of meaning. Fear is the mind killer. The place all fear to go. The fear of extinction being the overarching obsession of Paul and Leto II.

It’s remarkable that so many people miss the strongest hint in the Dune series that the protagonists are morally ambiguous is in their name: Atreides. As in, the House of Atreus, infamous for familicide and cannibalism.

Keep the Ghost Light on. I’ll be back for call.

Assignment to all Americans: Watch 12 Angry Men. It’s one of the best arguments for civic mindedness and duty.

Matt Walsh sounds like he consciously lowers his voice an octave or two whenever he’s in public.

It’s disconcerting that both the American right and left seem to be in agreement: The past few weeks have been a disaster of incomprehensible magnitude.

Wait, Trump threatened to depose the Pope?!?!

My partner wants a guinea pig. My one condition is that we name it “Emergency Ration.” We are at an impasse.

Well, at least Netanyahu is finally having to pay the piper.

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

It would be great if more media tried to explain what the practical impact of destroying Iran’s power plants instead of just saying that it would be a war crime. Tens of thousands dead? Probably at the low-end.

We must hold all members of this administration to account. For breaking the law, undermining national security, corruption, and weaponizing the government against its people. We can’t let these people get away with it again. We have to prove to the world that we won’t tolerate tyranny.

So frustrating when program officers tell you that your proposals are technically perfect, you got the highest score possible, your work aligns with their priorities, but they have other pressing requests and there's not really anything you can do about it.

Our office was made aware of an incident involving two bounty hunters pointing weapons at civilians who were chanting at them from alongside and in front of the bounty hunters’ van.

Both have been charged with felony threats of violence and displaying a replica of a firearm.

Feels like Tuesday, but it’s only Monday. Not a good omen.

“They just get all the attention because they seek it out and think they’re opinion is better than everyone else’s.”
“Yes.”

“They don’t represent me!”
“Actually, they do.”

It’s disconcerting when you live near the center of international events and the idiot neighbor/hated local politician/resident jackass gets quoted extensively by prestigious sources.

That perpetual ADHD self-doubt: “Is this actually an interesting or new thing I’m about to share? Or is it dead obvious to everyone else and I just missed it until now?”

I think the one comment about Lenin that really helped me understand the man is from Andy Duncan’s Revolutions: “For Lenin, revolution was a kill-or-be-killed proposition, and he had no intention of being killed.”