Grim Bones

It's really funny how unlike the comic it is

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

You already stopped fighting

actually they are. the people who gave up ARE wrong. That's the whole thing!

Losing on purpose is not fighting

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The Organization is Here to Support You by Charlene Elsby: I love bureaucracy stories so I had to read this and it has an incredible twist ending that is both horrifying and extremely funny

Last King of California by Jordan Harper: I always have this thing with Harper where I love that he's doing James Ellroy for the 2010s onward, except I can't shake the weirdness of how that leads to things like the main character of this book going to a SunnO))) show and it taking me out of the book

There are no words for how evil this is

Cope

not like i actually did any actual work toward that specific goal but this is what mass politics does i guess is somewhere maybe you managed to contribute something and when anyone wins it feels like you won too

this is sentimental but it is genuinely crazy to think way back to 2016 when i was attending the first few meetings of the only two DSA chapters in Louisiana with like a total of 10 other people, and then now a member of it holds the most powerful municipal office in the US and maybe on earth

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

holy shit just read that Mira Nair was in talks to direct Harry Potter 5 but a teenage Zohran convinced her not to and to direct an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake instead

This is the best night in politics of my life since Obama won the first time and this is even better

Evil mayoral candidate's beautiful wife also a genius and other horrific news

The song as explained by its author is about how he hates birthday parties. No, really.

this is engagement bait but I am interested to hear about you personal interpretations of songs that aren't the intended one. This is because of my love for The Funeral by Band of Horses, which I believed to be about knowing someone you are always afraid will die before the next time you see them

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman: the title and setup would have you believe this is a very different book than what it is. It's actually much closer to existentialism than specifically a feminist novel, though I guess by making gender irrelevant it actually IS about gender.

I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

my entire career as a college music journalist for a Baton Rouge alt weekly disappeared 10 years ago when the magazine was acquired and then shuttered by a national conglomerate. I can't even prove I used to be cool anymore

Sky Daddy by Kate Folk: loved her shorts collection, loved this too. Folk has an amazing way of slipping between normal book and extremely weird from moment to moment that I really love. You wouldn't think a book about being sexually attracted to planes would have a real human core but it does.

the reward beyond that is not having single persons with greater influence than the combined force of several national governments including our own

The Troop by Nick Cutter: pretty impressively gross and well put together but somehow it doesn't really do much for me. I WAS really into the end though I wanted more of the life of a guy who has to spend the rest of his life in a quarantine because he has bioweapon worms living in him

Burn You The Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager: this is probably too long for a short story collection. However, Poison Nurse in here is a real gem, that one'll make you squirm.

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon: basically everyone has the same take on this one including me so let me boil it down GR prequel incredible names he thinks the Nazis are back

Just voted straight ticket Democrat by which I mean I voted Zohran for governor of New Jersey and mayor of my town