Even if you haven’t read “The Golden Bough” you can just feel what the holiday is actually about. It’s gotten darker and darker. We need to assemble to console ourselves with the received knowledge that this is as bad as it gets. It will get brighter. Here comes the sun, as a later prophet put it.

And yet, stories themselves can be magical

"he must've known the MAGA posters weren't American, they have to share that data when they apply for blue checks. but then why would he make the data public?"

hear me out: he's very silly and on a lot of drugs