I asked for a bowl of mushroom soup and the waitress brought me this bath tub.

Maybe it doesn’t look that big in the picture but I couldn’t put my arms around it without bending into the soup. (To hold my phone while I read, obviously.)

I could have asked for a cup but then they bring you this tiny thing where you aren’t sure if there’s soup or somebody forgot to wash the dregs off somebody else’s cup.

There’s no middle option. Like everything in America, it’s either amazing or total crap. It’s mostly amazing, of course.

There’s a difference between democracy and egalitarianism, and no matter how strongly you might feel about the former, nothing’s more toxic to the soul than the latter. Too often the promise of a union isn’t fair treatment but rather equal treatment. Do you do a good job or a shitty one? Doesn’t matter. Your union has fought hard for a living wage, so you’ll get it.

Richard Russo, The Destiny Thief

Yes, there’s definitely no need to open up comments since anybody who saw this image is in the grip of an epileptic fit and can’t type.

I hope the Pentagon isn’t snoozing on the job and is adopting this as a weapon of mass terror against our enemies.

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history.

John Williams, Stoner