I've always loved that one and I've had it, and the original John Brown's Body, rolling around my head the last few weeks.

Benedict Arnold always seemed like the most pathetic pick-me fuckboi, traitorous for the most venal reasons. idk if that bears out. Alternately, John Adams was famously annoying in a Thoreau sort of way.

I feel like Caroline Lamb was probably just as annoying as Byron, and maybe less cruel than he was.

I’m fine conceding that a bunch of nebulously incriminating Epstein statements do not a story make, but in that case neither does the Biden Parkinson’s nonsense, or literally any component of the various Clinton/Wikileaks pseudo-scandals, or tons of other right-wing stuff the paper has laundered

They really are the republicans of the 70s turned up to 11 in a lot of ways. Although I don't think Stephen Miller has a good parallel, and I don't think there's a Liddy or a Hunt figure now, not really.

Vance seems to me more like a John Dean-type who thinks he'll get away with it all. Trump is his own anti-press attack dog, like Agnew. And then there's all the bribea.

I really think Agnew is an even better parallel, and tbh that's worse.

Easton almost went Dem. Easton! First selectman lost by only six freaking votes.

It's even worse than when I watched the Mary Tyler Moore Show while I was in early labor! That took a few years to get past.

Ugh, I'm sorry, that sucks. I was trying to use a favorite tv show (Elementary) as distraction and I haven't been able to watch it again.

Turns out the body does keep the score, dammit

Oh and from a non-obscure source too lol
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