We’re watching in real time a viable and essential leftist bloc, with access to political power for the first time in decades (if not longer), decide that the only moral course of action is to become a renaissance faire.
Big fat guys in the wild often dress down with t-shirts and shorts, when they’d look much better if they dressed up. I don’t think “fat slob” when I see this dude, I think, “What a sophisticated gourmand.”
When I was a kid, I thought the tomatoes in Ratatouille were pepperonis. Somehow, I also thought the squash was yellow pepperoni. I genuinely believed it was all pepperoni.
“I wouldn't wish it on anyone” may be the funniest possible ending to a career spent wishing essentially this exact experience on millions of other people.
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce"
— Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
The beauty of California is that whether you vote for the Democrat or the Republican for governor in 2026, both candidates plan to kill rail projects and build no housing.