So are we watching the Veep debate tomorrow?

If your spirits are flagging, here’s a heart-warming story. I left the classroom for a minute today, and when I got back, I saw that a student was using the break to get several students to fill out voter registration cards. They are all 18-19, and it’s their first time to vote. And this is how our side got 5 new voters today.  

I love my blog because only here can one see the words “ad hominem” and “pig-fucker” meaningfully coexist in one sentence. 

I don’t get the whole hullabaloo about the leaked Trump tax return. If he legally used a tax write-off, then what’s the problem? There is not a person on the planet who wouldn’t have used a tax write-off they are legally entitled to. 

This children’s bed is being sold in Russia for 11,000 rubles. The reason why the design is successful is, of course, that this is the missile launcher that brought down flight MH17. Funny, ha ha.

60% of voters stayed home in Colombia, burying the hope of a peace deal between the government and FARC.

55% of voters stayed at home in Hungary, rendering invalid the referendum on the refugees. 

Remember how I said that these things are never one-sided? People turn away from the nation-state in droves. And it isn’t like it’s even that hard to get one’s ass to a voting booth. But people don’t want to make that minuscule effort to preserve the nation-state. 

It’s not about incomprehensible, impersonal forces doing things nobody wants to be done to them. The destruction of the nation-state is a choice people make every day.