Against Required Reading

V.E. Schwab on fantasy and doors

Thanx to Tor.com.

Jars of Hellman's I sing

Yesterday I linked to an article entitled “How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise.” People have been saying that it’s not a very good article. Perhaps I was carried away by the theme of getting rid of an alleged food product that is actually Satan’s spooge or an alien body secretion of particular repulsiveness. So, in the interests of fairness, here is Amal El-Mohtar on Twitter with the other side.

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Dirty Business

Of course I hate politics. As Tim Leary said, it’s so animalistic it should be done on all fours. But there’s also Robert Heinlein’s appropriate image that it’s as unavoidable as bondage to our bowels, and voting for someone because he isn’t a politician makes as much sense as asking to be operated on by someone who isn’t a doctor, so every chance I get, I vote for the lesser of two evils.

The Right thinks important offices should go to successful businesspersons rather than politicians, which doesn’t work even if you choose a real success, as opposed to someone who played the part on television but in consensus reality was such a failure at the fixed game of capitalism that he had to be bailed out by foreign adversaries who now own him.

The Left is subtler, of course. They merely reject anyone who is political enough to compromise. Here is Charles Pierce on the people who think Nancy Pelosi is too good at the nasty business of politics to be their kind of politician.