jan 27 in idea barrages

If you can’t tell who’s shallow and who isn’t, that’s just poor depth perception.

Sun Chips are the ultimate diet food because everyone can hear you opening the bag from three states away. Hard to cheat on your diet then.

A race across Scandinavia, barrelling toward the Finnish line.

Charismatic leadership sucks. It either accomplishes the terrible or fails at accomplishing the impossibly good. Give me those who lead with an understanding of how to get things done balanced against knowing what actually works, every day of the week & twice on Election Day.

This is the world the Cult of Sanders made four years ago. Over-reaching for sweeping changes everyone knew impossible, as Icarus flying higher & higher toward the sun, the door was opened a crack for real evil to enter. And true evil, once inside, doesn’t leave fair and square.

Weimar Germany, after the Great War, was possibly the most socially progressive place in all human history, for just a little while, before a left wrecked by internal squabbling dropped the ball fighting each other instead & let the Nazis in. History isn’t a straight line.

Dog diarrhea all over the bathroom mats. I always say “after enlightenment, the monk still gets water from the well every morning.” I suppose it works in the negative too. Even at the end of a civilization, in the morning, there is dog crap to clean. This is our human condition.

When you consider that the defense barricades around the White House are to defend them against protests of their racism, they’re kind of literally white picket fences, aren’t they? The universe, her metaphors unsubtle.