It will never not be funny to me that when Napoleon got stripped of his empire and exiled to Elba he responded by paving the roads, draining marshes, rebuilding the iron mines & ordered every house to install a toilet in just 2 months. "energy is a choice" he said.
An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
@hassytee@majamediaco Excellent essay. I saved a few new quotes I learned from it, plus one I already loved but didn’t have yet about Paleolithic brains and medieval institutions.