“bandage the orifices to keep in any remaining breath”

one stray fact: one of the names/ssn’s this immigrant bought belonged to a guy under an income deduction order. the immigrant wound up paying the guy’s overdue child support(!)

(giving chemo infusions, doing surgeries) to preserve my life. and those people were housed and fed and kept safe and healthy by others…

and grateful for the world, which gave us water. there’s something special about water.

some shit it makes up is funny. nabokov might have appreciated this misattribution:

that said, here’s a real howler from yesterday (for the nabokov and corneille fans out there):

“The case against Homan is no stronger than the case against Epstein.“

the deep state keeps making me accept bribes.

“I hereby pardon myself for all crimes, including the one I am hereby committing.”

There are things we’re not allowed to talk about.

And there are things we’re not allowed to talk about not being allowed to talk about.

Agreed - an absurd and pretextual response. If I put myself in MAGA shoes, what I’m mad at is the humiliation Kimmel served on my big man. That deadpan “he’s at the fourth stage of grieving: construction,” coming after that video clip, is both devastating and funny.

he wants to piss in every corner of the house before he leaves

As this article shows, those three points are all wrong. (i forgive my oncologist for his bad politics - he has a high-stress job, he’s amped up to face his patients for the day, and he needs to vent. but he is wrong about this stuff.)

#cansky #oncosky #cancerbs

(3) even if an important university study is defunded, it will still go on, because ambitious med school students and young doctors will jump in to fill these jobs and thereby raise their status.