Probably not, because when one piece gets replaced the ghosts in the surrounding pieces inhabit the new piece before another piece can be replaced.

Oil shortages? There are no oil shortages. We have Freedom fuel!

And exactly what will this same company that fucked it up the first time do differently this time?

I’m not so sure there won’t be someone worse.

“This too shall pass”

You’ll be surprised when you find out how much cognitive dissonance people can tolerate.

You’re too angry to understand what I’m saying.

Exercising isn’t a sport.

You have to live with all the mistakes you’ve made your entire life.

My girlfriend seemed to like it.

I’ve read recently that when the Apprentice first started and before they could start filming they had to completely redo Trump’s offices because they were so trashy and hadn’t really had anything updated since the 80s. Just like Trump. Trashy and not updated since the 80s.

How are the american people not rioting in the streets?

You’ll find your conversations much more effective when you don’t begin them by being patronizing. My point is that neither party has been able to solve our problems.

For fucks sake. Are we only going to have a choice between the far left or the far right in this country?

All is one.

Such a great album!

Of course this changes over time but right now it’s probably a toss up between Marquee Moon by Television and 154 by Wire.

Let’s be clear. The primary reason people have lost pride in America and democracy is Donald Trump and his administration. You can say other administrations have had their faults, certainly, but what’s happening now is far, far worse. And let’s not forget the constant drumbeat of propaganda from Fox News and other right wing outlets telling us our country is a shit hole. And again, we have our problems, but this is how propaganda works. You mix in some truth about something while wildly exaggerating or making up other things about it.

It does seem like a daily assault on our well being, doesn’t it? But there is something that helps with this - read history broadly. It helps give you a deeper understanding of current events that lessens the impact of the current moment. And consider the quote “this too shall pass”. It’s attributed to Sufi poets about impermanence. If times are bad it gives you hope that those times will one day, eventually but certainly, be gone. If times are good it makes you relish the moment deeply and do what you can to make it last.

I have nothing to brag about.