jan 12 in idea barrages

The macro opposition to free college has nothing to do with its cost and everything to do with how it would delay entry to the workforce, thinning out unemployment and taking away big business’ leverage to hire young desperate people dirt-cheap.

I want to believe that the cat loves me but he might just appreciate that I throw more heat than the other furniture. I can hope but I will never really know.

It must be really disappointing trying to throw a birthday party for Daredevil because he’s always gonna hit the pinata and he’s always gonna know where to pin the tail on the donkey.

Remember: “demon” is just “no med” backwards. That voice telling you to be ashamed of needing medicine for help is just your anxiety or depression trying to win. Ignore your demons, take your meds. Live to fight them another day again.

“Kidz Bop” has been around since 2001. If it were a person, it would literally no longer be a child at all.

I like how if you’re a Republican from Utah, you’re listed as (R-Ut). I’m like, yeah, with all those marriages, you better be ruttin’.

Step 1: wrap a green piece of cloth around your head just below your hairline. Step 2: if anyone asks why, tell them “it’s an unripe bandana”. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit.

“Yankee Doodle”, of course, was a song the British made up to mock the colonists as rubes with no understanding of high-class European fashion. Our roots as a culture of willful misremembering go all the way down to the bedrock.