Black coffee, red meat, delta blues, yellow journalism, James Brown, Satsuma oranges, pink noise, Purple Rain, bitter greens, White Lines (don't do it).
@questlove across both of your recent docs, Sly’s memoir, and a hours of EWF interviews, there isn’t a lot of talk of James Brown. Did he rub other guys the wrong way? Is his influence less essential than we assume? Or is he so essential it goes without saying?
If Ebola becomes a pandemic, it will be in no small part because millions of people now view public health measures as oppression rather than the most basic infrastructure of a functioning and sustainable civilization.
I find this sort of means-testing to be strikingly anti-family. People lose their minds about the estate tax with a multimillion dollar exemption, but then apply high implicit taxes on the modest intra-family transfers of poor people
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@constans I live five minutes from a Six Flags and I’ve been there twice in the last 20 years. Two rides and I’m sick for the next two days. Plus, they’ve given up on atmosphere. Some failed projects have been left to decay for decades.
Being an 8/10 NBA player must feel like you're at the top of the world. The only way to really screw that up is to get better. No one has more haters than a 9 or 10/10 player.