The worst of them are the ones that sound excited about the breakdown of law and order, because laws are the only things stopping them from hurting the people they hate.

Others have probably said this, but it's not the act of prepping so much as a prominent community of bad-apple preppers.

Growing food, installing solar panels, and forming bonds with your neighbors are all prepping! But for a few loud folks, it's all about the guns.

And the people pushing both movements will do so while insisting there's no value to college gender studies departments.

For me, it's not the power armor that makes Iron Man, it's the wealth. He's filthy rich, but his conscience won't let him throw his money around without leading from the front.

He could be a French nobleman named Antoine de Starque who equips a mercenary company entirely out of his own pocket.

Reminds me of a useful quote from Aaron Sorkin: "Nobody ever starts a sentence with 'dammit.'"

Also why teenagers don't seem to care about anything. Caring is a weakness. Some people pretend they think "everything is lame" because enthusiasm has been used against them once too often.

My mother, who grew up in southern Indiana, would frequently describe things as "going great guns"

(I actually tried this. Did not work.)