I don't even mean it as a dunk when I say I found her quality indistinguishable from scores of other political writers. I read political writing all the time and if you put a gun to my head I wouldn't be able to tell you most of the bylines.

Oh, this is also why the color ultramarine is called that. The word means “beyond the sea”, and describes from whence painters in Italy would acquire the lapis lazuli to grind into that all-important pigment. It had to be imported from across the sea. The oft-quoted factoid that lapis lazuli was

Its a stupid meme by stupid people who dont notice when the bombs stop because they don’t actually care about stopping the bombing theyre just mad at mommy and daddy

When Butthead makes jokes about Beavis’ mom, Beavis is very quick to notice an emotional harm because his worldview, although warped, is based within standing norms of society. He has been led into a place of darkness by Butthead, a purely malevolent creature not unlike the Judge in Blood Meridian

'I'm Ryan Lizza, I left Politico after I accidentally ended up in a throuple with the sociopathic 71-year old nepobaby who now leads a government crusade to put the lead back in paint. My fiance fell for him in the back of a van he exclusively uses to pick up exotic roadkill. Welcome to my blog.'

(it took me a moment to work this out but also notice that the name they use for her is degraded and racializing. Summers should be gone from any institution that even pretends to respectability)