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First, we realized that the way things worked on The West Wing wasn’t the way they worked in the real world; then we realized things had never worked that way; then finally we realized things should not work that way.

That would be horrible. It would be a gaudy, unending pageant, full of self-obsessed blowhards saving the day not through radical change or real moral courage but with shitty zingers…
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“Pretty much the entire thing is just metaphors for being gay. Back then you had to be on a boat to have sex with a man…”

“People talk about the ‘coming apocalypse.’ Take a closer look. The apocalypse is Puerto Rico annihilated by a hurricane. Its villages in India,, Bangladesh, and Nepal tortured by lethal flooding.

The apocalypse is already here; you just don’t live there yet.”