America will trudge along, leaving imploding China in the dust,

A. Agree
B. No. You don't think we're imploding now?

China has all that socialist crap like 5-year plans. We have elections every few months of one kind or another to keep people distracted. Who's gonna tank?

We're celebrating 250 years. When did China do that? 3000 BC?

I'd argue about this:

A willing people and a willing government. I don't think the US will have that for a long time.

#73 | Posted by Dbt2

But then again, quoting yourself is the last bastion of [fill in the blank].

I'm not saying anything. I mentioned the report and the main takeaway people are going to see if they click the link.

Sorry for not arguing.

Being a Yankee, Moynihan likely didn't focus as much on the racist hells of the Northeast like Boston.

^ clip from the link

Just to make sure the second part is included in people's takeaways:

Moynihan argued that the rise in black single-mother families was caused not by a lack of jobs for men, but by a destructive vein in ghetto culture, which could be traced back to the slavery era and the subsequent racial discrimination in the American South under Jim Crow laws.

Gee, remember the Moynihan Report?

Was someone going to get in the cage and beat on Qusay?

That's entertainment.

6. Kickbacks from reconstruction expenses paid to US contractors that Iran can bleed from us?

How many Americans got wealthy building hugely in Iraq after the conflict ended, and not to US benefit?

Doesn't the paragraph following the headline usually relate to the headline?

Low energy.

Let's not forget that Wm. S. Burroughs used antihistamines to get off heroin.

I experienced antihistamine overload one time after ingesting a pill and then adding topical cream for a bad case of poison ivy.

I couldn't pick up my head for hours. I can only imagine that antihistamine overload might take one's mind off heroin withdrawal.

A seemingly benign substance.

Who?

Well, he is a high school graduate, so let's give him that.

But maybe he doesn't speak or hear too well, and has taken a few too many hits to the head. Sports the wife-beater nicely, though.

But according to Boaz, Helene killed those drum-circle lefties around Asheville who had it coming.

As much of a pinata as Boaz was, the DR isn't suffering from his absence.

Bless his heart.

No one on Trump's team has any sense of propriety, and Haberman will end up with a Pulitzer.

Another MSG memory.

Had two friends who were first cousins. One Monday I asked them what they did that weekend.

"Went to the concert for Bangladesh."

I was speechless.

I remember Willis Reed.

It was great to be a kid watching the Knicks in the late 60s, early 70s.

Attended plenty of games at MSG. And would go bowling there, prerenovations.

And how did Uncle Rich get his name there?

As they say these days, IYKYK. Is that what they say?

Thirty spokes
meet in the hub.
Where the wheel isn't
is where it's useful.

Tao, no. 11

Between the idea
And the reality
Falls the shadow.

In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions that a minute will reverse.

TS Eliot

12. I used to have that on a T-shirt. Selectively worn.

Or maybe the first coming:

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of [Gotham] a Savior has been born to you."

I used to live in that empty-suit Griffith's district. What a worthless tool.

But guarantee you he's a climate change denialist so that he can get reelected in the Fighting Ninth.

If I hear his song about his son one more time, I'm looking for windows myself.

My favorite comment on Eric Clapton: The worst guitarist anyone ever considered really good.

I don't know much about Cyndi Lauper, except I think she did one of the great covers of all time.

Joni Mitchell's "Carey." Totally changed the vibe of a fantastic song: