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she couldn’t help but throw in some gun stats after staying so far medically neutral and objective, haha

I’m seeing this guy give a lecture in a few weeks and figured I should read his book.

I feel comfortable stating that no other book in publishing history has referred to Bobby Kennedy as a “ratfuck” this many times.

it’s kinda devastating

figured out fast that it’s based on Charles Schmid, the Pied Piper of Tucson

cool, my copy is signed.

re-reading. it’ll get more than two stars this time.

hot springs, bison, and grizzlies. next chapter: poisonous plants.

sure, let’s begin with the citizens of a small group of Japanese hamlets pulling the bodies of children out of the debris

Christians really did just make this stuff up as they went along.

I think this is extremely depressing for as much of a zombie junkie as I am, probably because it always seems to me like the world is close to ending.

I’m getting a little fed up at her sanctimony.

STILL on my CIA bullshit

still on my CIA bullshit

It was certainly A Choice to preface each chapter in an otherwise scholarly book with the author’s poems about his dead sister

Jim, you old sap, I can get I-love-my-kid goop from literally any other Gen X writer 😂

The author has twice referred to the “Identification Discovery channel.”

L.A. pigs are The Worst, and Reeve Whitson is my new noir hero

page 37: what have I gotten myself into

Maureen Dowd is such a vicious cunt.

It's love poetry, it's erotica, it's wordplay, it's grammar lessons, it's wonderful! I had the good fortune to lose to James Harbeck in a spelling bee at the American Copy Editors Society conference, and a more intelligent and charming man you could not hope to meet.

Lawyers, celebrities, fame whores, and cops are all trash.

I was put off by the so-chic postmodernism of the first few pages, but it's getting interesting.

So in 1935, Sinclair Lewis predicted the rise of Trump.