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Rand Paul looks like the painting Elon Musk keeps in the attic to age for him.

You down with no T.P.? YEAH YOU KNOW ME. You down with no T.P.? YEAH YOU KNOW ME. You down with no T.P.? CHECK THE STORE FOR ME

If you did one of those saucy fireman calendars but let cops and EMTs in too, you could call it The Thirst Responders.

At least we have the irony of people who made fun of the obvious propaganda of “Baghdad Bob” while the house burned down years ago pretending that Trump’s sham press conferences aren’t the exact same thing. That’s interesting, anyway.

When we are old, let’s start an elderly punk band called Epsom Assaults.

I miss New York City with a part of my soul I didn’t know I had until I lived there. Now I am gone but it’s still there, years later, I don’t know what to do with the five borough appendix I only acquired in my thirties but still aches in me now, in my middle age.

One of the great curses of our mayfly lives is how we are left to believe that however it was when we were young is how it has always been and how it will always be.

Experience in government doesn’t mean you’re corrupt and need to go, it means you know how to actually operate the levers of power to get things done. Life-long public servants know how to actually serve the public. Well-meaning novices don’t.