With the possible exception of that time George Allen’s mom described the city as being like “if Paris farted.”

So while I absolutely agree that we need to crack the rich open and get back the unfair share of wealth that they’ve taken from us, we need to factor in that we’re building a new thing. That old system only looks sustainable with smoke and mirrors and selective forgetting.

My friends self-medicated anxiety and depression with drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes and I lost of a lot of them before any of us reached 30.

My $150/month rent was in a perfectly fine death trap w knob and tube wiring and no AC
My $1200 college tuition was possible because my profs’ salary scales were set in the 1960s and we had zero counseling or health services and like 20 computers on all of campus

If there’s anything eighteenth-century I will be going through prize papers this week.

I do want to dig in some obscure admiralty records! Can’t promise anything but tell me what you’re looking for and I’ll keep an eye out.

Anybody need anything while I’m here?

Live shot of the Clayco boardroom.

“The story of L’Ouverture is really just another chapter in the story of humanity’s universal desire for freedom…”

spidermenpointing.jpg and all that

… British historiography emphasizes the ways the “homegrown” abolition movement freed the empire from the grubby trafficking that the colonials invented.

American historiography has included a long strain of “the Revolution created the idea of freedom that ended the slavery Britain created here” and…

And eventually you get to the Larry Summers endgame of “cruelty is a perk of leadership.”