may 14 in idea barrages

Your quarantine dating app will be called “Isomated”.

Whenever an NCAA sportsperson (saying Division 1 student-athletes demeans both words) is said to be “in the transfer portal” I imagine them going into a rad Stargate thing but really they’re just being “allowed” to shift their indentured servitude from one overseer to another.

If you tell on someone for breaking one of the ten commandments, you’re the narc of the covenant.

Facts over feelings. Facts over feelings. In your own life: don’t believe your anxiety. In our shared life: believe science. Your over-active mind is as untrustworthy as conspiracy theorists and narcissistic fundamentalists. Facts over feelings.

No, the BEST quarantine/lockdown/toilet-paper-hoarding song parody would be a Prince riff called “My Brand New Bidet” (they’re closed so it’s not from a second-hand store).

Ignorance is harder to forgive now because you never know when ignorance isn’t just feigned for the purposes of misinformation or willful wishful thinking these days.

All-or-nothing thinking by the good guys will kill us faster than any bad guy ever could in all their dreams of cruelty and avarice. Do the good you can, take what you can get, give what you can spare, do a little more tomorrow.

Oh, we all shapeshift. It takes years and we have very little control over the outcome but we all shapeshift.