And this is not to say that the race against his physical collapse is unimportant to their project of consolidation, but let’s put all things into comprehensive perspective. Your reference to LatAm in the 20thC is especially apt.

100%. This hope against hope that it all depends on this one dummy is among the most disheartening aspects of our situation, because it means we aren’t learning about the moment even as it’s happening to us.

That’s correct, ideally. It isn’t a playoff series.

Wandering around, seeing if he could get into a pickup war

But would they assume you were a six time world heavyweight champion? Maybe, if you were buried with the baubles indicative of such status in our society, a belt perhaps, among your funerary items.

Technically, it’s a crime against humanity, using the state to commit murder in peacetime.

Such hopes are never much called for.

I had hopes that, with the election of Xiomara Castro and the trial and conviction of Juan Orlando Hernandez, that tragic country had turned a corner, or at least found a place to rest a while. :2

One slice of strawberry tart without so much rat in it later

His TAs be like goddammit

He also always looks and sounds like he’s choking on a loose piece of sausage he was sloppily eating when the interview pulled him away

Right to my solar plexus

Five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Dean had finished a fading third in a primary he’d expected to win. His loss in NH a week later, as a Vermonter to Kerry of Massachusetts, meaning NH was long familiar with both, can’t fairly be attributed to the scream, he’d actually gained that week. Lame coverage, yes, but he was done anyway.

We had to bring multiple class actions and go to the state supreme court like seven times, facing ferocious opposition not only from employers and the restaurant association but also from insurance companies, in order to vindicate and compensate workers and get basic standards for health insurance.

So employers started offering the worst bullshit health plans, those old supplemental things like AFLAC that were without any value at all on their own, and that were barely better than setting out a bowl of aspirin on the break room at work.