Apparently listening To a lot of Dylan makes you old

My year is split between 2 days reading a Jack Reacher book and 363 days waiting for another Jack Reacher book

With a new Jack Reacher book coming out in under a week, I looked in my bookshelf for something light to read while I wait…

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

SMASH MOUTH:
🎵 What a concept
I could use a little fuel myself
And we could all use a little... chaaaaange 🎵

...

HOMELESS GUY:
So are you gonna give me any money or nah

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Great new Motion City Soundtrack album out today. It feels both classic and fresh at the same time!

open.spotify.com/album/7gf7mD...

Just heard Billy Joel’s Piano Man for the first time in ages and I had forgotten how absolutely great it is

🎶
Corn to the left of me
Soybeans to the right
Here I am
In Indiana with you
🎶

RIP Tom Lehrer (who I honestly thought had died like 20 years ago)

Oregon has a great vote by mail system that includes an electronic notification that the ballot was received and processed. Proud to have voted in our local election. #WashCoVotes

I’m so glad Bluesky exists. It’s like having pre-Nazi twitter back with many of the same quirky voices. And I keep finding new ones!