no2 in idea barrages

1.) In mourning, time loses meaning or at least its passage does. Holidays become mere changes in the decoration, seasons become mere changes in the weather. Mourning is an alternately sorrowful and tedious continual now.

2.) There, just before the explosion of The Death Star, all the Imperial officer had on his mind was a crippling fear of premature evacuation.

3.) There are monsters. You aren’t born one, though, you become one, drip by drip, selfish choice by choice, over time. There probably are not angels, you can never fully be one but every day you can be a little more humane.

4.) We will stand together, outside of time. We won’t stand together again, though, because outside of time, “again” has no meaning. We stood together, we stand together, we will stand together. The illusion will let slip and we will be.

5.) Ephemera? Everything’s ephemera, it only depends on a matter of scale. To a mayfly, that hamburger wrapper is as old as the stars. To a star, the pyramids are hardly half a sneeze.

6.) Rabbis wear yarmulkes to hide mohel-pattern baldness.

7.) Without a spiral notebook, your handwriting becomes unruly.

8.) Shootout at the OK Corral. Shootout at the Acceptable Corral. Shootout at the Minimally-Competent Corral. Shootout at the Good Enough Corral. Shootout at the Meets Lowered Expectations Corral.

9.) The cat’s butt is never going to smell any different, dog, but I appreciate your devotion to the premise that it might, eventually.

10.) America could’ve done such great things without the myth of the self-made man. As it is, tho, every generation there’s a wave of selfishness that grew up with all the benefits of the commons looking to take it away from everyone else so they don’t have to pay taxes.

11.) The paradox of our culture, the Protestant Work Ethic, the idea God makes good people rich so you must lie cheat & steal to get rich, to prove to your neighbors God thinks you’re good & if you’re poor, it’s your fault because you’re bad, the germ of evil at our very core.

12.) The Trumpies aren’t playing 3-D chess here, they’re playing checkers. The myth of “the caravan” isn’t about election distraction, it’s about normalizing violence against Hispanics while making the press take it less seriously because “it’s just an election distraction”.

13.) 99.999999% of tampered Halloween candy reports are either (a) attention-seeking hoaxes or (b) people trying to kill their own children in a manner where they can blame it on someone else, sadly.

14.) Kim Ng as GM would’ve been a best case for Mets fans, really, because the groundbreaking nature of her hire might’ve been some leverage against the meddling of ownership but then that’s probably exactly why they didn’t hire her.