Jared is such a slut. He’s turned on by handsome, sexy Middle Eastern rich guys with facial hair, like MBS. He says he’s not “bi”, just “curious.”

I’m not dying, except in the metaphysical sense that we’re all dying.

I don’t know which there are more of at Whole Foods, pigeons scavenging for scraps or petitioners seeking signatures. The difference between them is that the pigeons are cute, while the petitioners are scungy.

Imagine if Adolf Hitler had formed a commission, say around 1938, to study solutions to “the Jewish problem.” Imagine if he had begun his announcement by saying, “Our commission is not here to debate whether or not Jews have caused harm to the Fatherland. It is to decide what to do about it.”

“Listen, Liberal” is not a very good book. The author, Thomas Frank, a freelance journalist, doesn’t have the gift of gab. But I forced myself to read it because it’s remarkable in its own way. It’s a political analysis written by a liberal for liberals, during the second Obama administration, well before Donald Trump took his now-infamous escalator ride down to the lobby of Trump Tower. It’s an admonition by Frank to his fellow Democrats that they’re not perceiving what’s right in front of them: the steady alienation of the working class away from the Democratic Party, toward Republicans.