Excess capital*

*held by homeowners accruing unearned equity based on scarcity in popular housing markets.

Aurora and the Mars trilogy extol the value of dense living. New York 2140 is about the resiliency of community in NYC. 2312 is about a city on train tracks that traverses Mercury's terminator. His novels and public statements are pretty consistently pro-density as a means to preserve nature.

Imagine calling people who agree with you on almost every other issue "Hitler" when there are literal nazis out in the streets praising Hitler.

13. Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
But also, long live Sodom and Gomarrah.

An amendment to sunset the funding bill’s .1% transit payroll tax increase in 2028 seems likely to pass. If it does, transit agencies will benefit from a .2% payroll tax for exactly two years, and lawmakers will be right back where they are now in 2027–staring down a fiscal cliff for public transit.

I don't disagree with the first premise. My point is the second premise (the sex pestery) makes the first premise a boring exercise in an undergraduate feeling compelled to defend their favorite author instead of... reading someone else.

I dunno, is there really a need to resuscitate a guy who in his 40s groomed a teenage girl? Let them have him. There are plenty of other great novelists.

Possibly a shirt that announces "Your perfume/cologne smells like shit" would be both impersonal and passive-aggressive enough to suit my needs.

Scallion cream cheese is GOATed