What did socialists use to light their homes before candles? Electricity.
[Late-morning update]
California is approaching Puerto Rico territory.
Speaking of which…
He's subtle, but one would get from this thread the impression that Mike doesn't have a high opinion of either Jerry Brown or Gavin Newsom. OK, so they have a legacy of filth, fire, poverty and tragedy. No one's perfect. https://t.co/RT2rjpVlAr
From my neighbor (really — he lives a few blocks away from me): Conservatives have taken to her (despite her leftism), because unlike most of the other Democrats, she doesn’t act like she hates our guts.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Don’t know how I missed titling the post, but it’s fixed.
[Lying] is a pretty tried and true method you can adapt to any situation. For instance, I tried to get someone to buy Hellbender and he was like, “Wait. Is that a science fiction comedy? I only read true crime books.”
So I said, “That’s what it is. True crime. Maybe the truest crime ever. And extra crimey.”
And then when he bought it and flipped through it and was like, “This looks like it was written by a chimp pounding at a keyboard!” I was all, “No refunds!”
Lying is great. You can also use it to make whatever you’re selling sound better than it is, though I don’t need that for Hellbender, since it has already won five Nobel prizes in literature and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the greatest novel
ever.
As an ever-struggling author, I’ll have to try some of these.