1121 in idea barrages

1.) Being respectful is nice but when being respectful normalizes hate, the necessity of treating hate as abhorrent supersedes respectfulness.

2.) Nietzsche’s treatise on game culture was called “Mario or Super Mario”.

3.) Your legal marijuana chain in Cali will sponsor a low-level college football bowl game. You will call it The Bowl Bowl.

4.) Dungeonmasters: set up a situation where the dark elf has to go on horseback. Yell “RIDE ‘EM, DROW-BOY!” as loud as you can.

5.) They’ll use your instinct for civility against you. They’ll pretend rolling over for horrors is a kind of civility. They do so in bad-faith.

6.) Some people have photographic memories, I have a mimeographic memory, smudged and blurry but the jist of it preserved forever.

7.) A nation, aspirating on its aspirations, the poor screwing themselves over in the unlikely case they reach their unrealistic expectations.

8.) We’re gonna need revolutionaries & evolutionaries, pamphleteers & privateers, bridge-makers and wall-breakers, we’re gonna need everyone.

9.) Trump said he’d never settle on his fake school stealing money from the vulnerable. He settled. We won’t settle in the struggle against him.

10.) Maybe vampires wanted the blood of virgins not because it’s magical, maybe herpes is just particularly rough on a bloodsucker.

11.) If the press hadn’t traded a short-term ratings bump for normalizing a clump of racist sociopaths, we wouldn’t be here, but they’re cowards.