It's an underrated gem. Husband and I quote it endlessly. (Thornton: "Don't you want to get to know me?" McDormand: "Why? Does it get better?") I think it grabbed me at the time because I grew up in the general area where it's set and they nailed the weird vibe of that part of California.

Underrated point!

Turns out the primary attribute needed to get obscenely rich is a desire to get obscenely rich without caring about the ethics or logistics of doing so.

Bookmarking this to show my kid. Well done!

What's his slogan gonna be "Cruz 2028: Hey, is the bar low enough yet?"

I guess the Gen X equivalent of this was me in 1988 saying "why can't we just be friends with the Soviets" at the dinner table and my parents born in the 1920/30s putting down their forks and saying "how much time you got?"

Thank you for clarifying this.

That hits very hard.

I believe it was Malcolm X who observed that the difference between a Southern racist and a Northern racist is that when a Southern racist bared his teeth to you there was no mistaking it for a smile. Wolves vs. foxes, conservatives vs. liberals.

Not doing this. Didn't even realize i had a line but this crossed it.

Substack has 100% radicalized me into believing editors are necessary in a modern society.

My daughter considers our very large 4 year old cat to be her actual child, and carries him around like so, and I think she's convinced him.

Every once in a while I see something so bad I thank god my dad didn't live to see it.

People: "hey, do you have any relatives back in Poland?"

Uhhh no...maybe you should google Poland.

People seem to arguing against the value of a functioning society these days, it's not great.

Gonna close my computer now and go clean something to feel normal again.

I'm just not sure it matters anymore...

yeah I aint never gonna forget that

MuWAHAHA thank you for teaching me something new today.