"How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. ".

"Politicians often react to political violence by insisting that it is alien to our character, that it is not who we are. They are wrong.".

"Trump has repeatedly described, in bizarre detail, his desire to see American journalists suffer—he is specifically preoccupied with fantasies of journalists being beaten and raped in prison.".

"In keeping with the values of local police, the federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by its officers & require them to properly identify themselves. These are the minimal requirements of policing a free state"--longtime NYPD officer.

"The public-health profession can go on pretending it knows how to cure every social ill, but it will never earn back the public’s respect unless it returns to its original principles. It needs to choose evidence over ideology—and humility over hubris.".

“I’ve just never liked bullies, and I don’t understand people who do. It’s really not that hard. I wish more people would see that it’s not hard to stand up.”. The Democrats have a punk-rock solution to their masculinity problem: The Dropkick Murphys.

Fantastic essay by the incomparable Jennifer Senior on insomnia, hers and America's.

"Calvinist about sleep meds, blasé about sleep meds—whatever you are, the fact remains: We’re a nation that likes them." (3/3).

“Using something where the benefits outweigh the side effects certainly is not addiction,” Winkelman, the Harvard psychiatrist and chair of the panel, told me when we spoke a few months later. “I call that treatment.”.

Let’s consider another phenomenon commonly associated with reliance on sleep meds: You enter Garland and Hendrix territory in a hurry. First you need one pill, then you need two; eventually you need a fistful with a fifth of gin. (1/2).

"In hindsight I’ll say: I always thought going crazy would be more exciting—roaming the street in a bathrobe, shouting at fruit. Instead I spent a weary season of my life saying representative.".

Iran's "estimations seem to have failed it with Trump (and Benjamin Netanyahu), but in the past and in the future, one can expect that it will, like a niggling spouse from hell, know the precise limits of its adversaries’ patience.".

"Trump did the right thing, but he did that right thing in the wrongest possible way: without Congress, without competent leadership in place to defend the United States against terrorism, and while waging a culture war at home against half the nation.".

"Bollocks to service, and bollocks to strengthening social contacts. Be untroubled by these buzzwords. By cultivating so exquisitely your own portion of consciousness, you��re doing more for the collective than any number of noisy humanitarians.".

"Mercy may be in some sense arbitrary, but so is capital punishment, and although mercy may produce unequal outcomes, unfairness in benefaction is better than the unfairness in harm that defines the American exercise of the death penalty.".

"Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda.".

"Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda.".

"Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda.".

RT @RGC3: @greta Sarge by @SStossel.

"Lately, I’ve been having dreams about my own execution.". Elizabeth Bruenig writing, with the moral force of Dostoevsky, on capital punishment, justice, and redemption.