Mist Willingham’s Reviews > Blowout > Status Update

"Climate disaster has put a spotlight on the need for human society to evolve beyond dependence on petroleum, but our very capacity to decide on that--or anything--remains at risk as long as the industry is still ranging like a ravenous predator on the field of democracy."

"The Russian operation pushed American politicians and political parties to more and more extreme positions; it celebrated all manner of fringe, splinter, and radical politics and demonized centrists, moderates, and anybody on any point of the ideological spectrum who actually believed government could be harnassed for anything useful at all."

"The Internet Research Agency ops counted on a sentiment that had been invoked by one of the white nationalist speakers at that galactic freak-show International Russian Conservative Forum across town: "One hundred repetitions make one truth. The defenders of the truth can be overwhelmed by repeated lies.""

"Political elites that can get themselves into the catbird seat when it comes to oil revenues will have every reason to curry favor with the oil companies doing the drilling, and every reason to fight anyone else who might take political power and thereby edge in on the financial teat they've stuck themselves to."

"Marmite is a gooey dark brown concoction made of yeast and vegetable extract; it's either delicious on buttered toast or the worst thing you could ever do to a perfectly fine piece of buttered toast, depending on whether you absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, which are the only two options."