…well everything folks have lamented about dallas is still true, but it’s not the result of unregulated development…
…well everything folks have lamented about dallas is still true, but it’s not the result of unregulated development…
…dallas has zoning, houston does not: contrast the two cities…
…i ate a fifteen-year-old bag of craisins sunday night; they were good!..
(my bowels disagreed monday morning, though)
…wendy’s has frosties, whataburger has dr. pepper shakes…
…can i reposition my taskbar?..no?..then it’s not the f*cking same…
take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home, a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings
they could appear to themselves everyday on closed-circuit TV to make sure they’re still real
it’s the only connection they feel
…ye gads, i adore aerial but most of her ouvre pre-ninth wave does nothing for me…
…y’all roughly correlates with coke, although there are some deep pockets of soda-water in the back country…
…“baby steps” they called that corporate handout, fomented by a groundswell of apologists that patience would be rewarded in due course…
sixteen.
f*cking.
years.
…when was the last time the democratic party ran a legitimately progressive platform?..i’m not talking about vacuous platitudes, i’m talking about articulated commitment backed up by tangible, substantive, follow-through changing the nature of established paradigm?..
…the electorate can vote or not vote for whomever the f*ck they see fit: that’s the fundamental point of democracy…
…the most-effective way to win those votes is to earn them, not to berate the electorate with a presumption of entitlement…
…the funny counterpart is that when liberals run a full-throated embrace of populism, their greatest threat isn’t the surge of new progressive supporters, but establishment democrats desperately afraid of losing conservatives who’d never support them anyway…
…was there one before?..
…you don’t win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992…
…i’m not sure that’s how one builds a coalition…
…every once in awhile i listen to top fourty countdowns from the mid-eighties, not necessarily because i enjoy the music, but because i’m mesmerised by the time-warp effect of revisiting period radio programs…
…i disliked a lot of the music then but i appreciated the shared cultural experience of legitimately popular broadcast media, and retrospectively it’s a window into a world which no longer exists…
…i mean, people pay restaurant money for ramen these days, too: every peasant food gets its day in due time…
…it definitely changes when used to top meatloaf…
…it’s clearly a recently-filmed parody…