aug 22 in idea barrages

The problem with idealists is that unless they have their ideal, and immediately, they will tear down any progress for the sin of falling short of their goal. Ideals are wonderful for inspiration, they are miserable in practice for progress. Useful idiots, the KGB call them.

They really had no idea where we were in history, when they abandoned Clinton for Sanders’ short-term impossible long-term improbable promises. We were in Germany in the early 30s. They got selfishly decadent and now the fake president declares anti-fascism illegal.

Will history write “America’s last democratically elected president was a woman but was denied the office by a coalition of weapons industrialists and foreign spies”? That’s a hell of a thing. We’d deserve it.

To combat bootlegging to get around anti-alcoholism laws in Russia, there were limitations placed on alcohol-based health and sanitation products to limit people trying to make hooch out of them. I wonder how this affected their reaction to COVID.

A frequently asked questions about Dan Aykroyd called FAQroyds.

I feel like Pete Davidson is white mediocrity manifest as a single eldritch beast. Like if every Hobby Lobby closed tomorrow, Pete Davidson would start fading in and out like Marty McFly in that photo when it was looking like his folks weren’t gonna bone after all.

Name your wiccan bakery “Bun In The Coven”.

There are worse band names than “The Thicc Earth Society”.