2) I'm not young and I feel like the average level of sensibility in the DNC is twenty years older than ME! Until the DNC recognizes it's not an incumbency protecting machine, my money will go to people creating change.

When we present on this "calm" and "silence" are things that come up a lot in terms of what underlying yearnings drive fantasies along these lines, particularly for people who are never entirely at peace. To be fair, that kind of captures the original beating heart of the "goth" aesthetic as well.

I was taught to have great respect for people who pay their debts and don't renege on bets.

I haven't gotten into town in a while, but I suspect the current crowd are a real class act...not necessarily related but I can't help thinking it increases the odds of running into somebody with such a sophisticated standard of conduct.

Growing up or even living for long in the Washington DC Metro area leaves one with a permanent disadvantage in communicating what is "realistic" in terms of outcome and consequence to people who live elsewhere on the planet. I try to be fashionable and refer to it as "being jaded."

"I've got a little list - I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground
Who never would be missed...."

On point terrifying dystopian novels aren't selling like hotcakes these days...just my personal experience. I think most people assume ours is about "the bad things that have already happened" not "the much worse things that are coming."

They were pretty upset to learn that Doug Neidermeyer was dead, and also fictional, but are looking for someone with similar professional qualifications.

I've never met a person who used "alpha" to describe people, particularly themselves, who wasn't some variety of asshole. Also the Venn diagram overlap of people who use that term aggressively and people who don't know where it comes from, is very large.

I'm convinced that much of the power of J. R. R. Tolkien's writing is that his Catholic repression combined with Merton College compelled a great deal more psychosexuality into his work than is generally credited.

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