I discovered him in 1991 or so, when I bought Blood Meridian because the cover looked interesting. It's cra-zy. I just loved that simple and spare writing style of his, where everything is a declaration, but some are simple and some are as big as the world. I always pictured the narrator as a deranged preacher, lazily mumbling basic facts, numbly describing horrific scenes, then sometimes wrapping up a set of thoughts with a wild-eyed proclamation.

See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him.

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.

The mother dead these fourteen years did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. The father never speaks her name, the child does not know it. He has a sister in this world that he will not see again. He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

After that I spent a couple of months reading everything I could find of his (this was pre-Amazon, so finding books took work and luck). They were all so dark and depraved. When The Road came out, it seemed a little soft, because the protagonists at least weren't melon-fuckers, baby-killers or fans of skinning people.

From the Tyndale Bible (1526-1535):

7 Axe and it shalbe geven you. Seke and ye shall fynd. knocke and it shalbe opened vnto you.
8 For whosoever axeth receaveth and he yt seketh fyndeth and to hym that knocketh it shalbe opened.

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About the most that can be said for Donald Trump, as a politician and as a person, is that he didn't let being President of the United States change him. This is not really a compliment, to be clear. Trump's public persona was grandiose enough that he tended to talk about becoming president as if it was something like a demotion, with him benevolently stepping away from his job as The King Of Success and his wonderful life enjoying the finer things alongside the most powerful and influential people to do the world a favor. If he was awed by the power of the office at all, it was mainly in the same way that he would previously have been impressed by particularly large slabs of marble, or the number of models in attendance at an associate's birthday party. He certainly never let the immensity of all that responsibility push him to work any harder; the fantasy that Trump would rise to the moment, which persisted in the elite echelons of the mainstream media through a poignantly long series of entirely unmet moments, was not so much misplaced as it was a category error.

The whole thing is glorious.

Even though he's not yet dead, and this isn't about him being dead, when it's time to write his obituary, this will be the one to beat.

MIAMI – A former employee of the United States federal government who was let go due to extreme incompetence has just been indicted on charges of stealing from his erstwhile employer.

Donald Trump, 76, has a checkered work record and a well-documented history of poor job performance. It’s not clear how someone known for ineptitude and malfeasance obtained high-level employment with the US government, but it’s believed that the parties who hired him were similarly incapable of carrying out their own responsibilities either due to stupidity or malice.

“I’m not surprised he stole a bunch of stuff when he was terminated, with some people that kind of behavior is pretty easy to predict,” said one of Trump’s former co-workers. “It all comes down to upbringing. I don’t wanna stereotype, but I find that people who inherit a great deal of wealth from their parents are almost all thieves.”

After somehow being employed by the US government, Trump quickly proved himself unable to perform the functions for which he was hired and only managed to keep his job for four years due to a technicality that prevented him from being discharged until a suitable replacement was found. Upon his dismissal, Trump allegedly absconded with a large number of valuable items belonging to his employer.

RIP Astrud Gilberto (the singer):

She was only in the studio as a translator, but ended up singing on the hit song and becoming a star.

But this might be the most horrifying thing I've ever heard.

The comments on YouTube are 99% positive. And not just "Wow. Neat" but "im THRILLED and AMAZED", "I began to appreciate it more and more, eventually coming out of it with chills to the bone", "TRULY Obsessed. This rendition is everything!", "Absolutely BRILLIANT".

Makes me wonder if I might be insane.

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The people behind these anti-CRT bills have admitted that they are part of a larger strategy to undermine our confidence in public education and advocate for privatizing education. For example, Christopher Rufo, the architect of the right-wing crusade against CRT, is “preparing a strategy of laying siege to the institutions” that will lead to parents having “a fundamental right to exit” public schools. In practice, this means using CRT to promote private school vouchers.

By an amazing coincidence:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) recently signed legislation that might radically undermine the state’s education system by making Florida’s already robust school voucher program the largest and most expensive in the country.