Outland

The US is going to be a much more hardscrabble, much worse place after this four years. Biden did a little (far too little) to forestall the looting, while his Democratic predecessor Obama allowed the plunderers free rein.

Trump is worse — he doesn’t even really know what he’s doing; he’s just a chaos agent swinging from outlandish position to absurd action, making the pillaging unpredictable and even more dangerous.

And we’re all going to pay for our not holding Obama to account back when we could’ve forestalled most of what’s to come.

Debase

TIFU by losing my entire life savings of over $600,000 to a rapidly developed gambling addiction and not being able to afford the taxes I now owe.

What a disturbing tale. How easy it is for so many people to descend into self-destruction is remarkable. I watched my own mother do it and I think she actually preferred living debased and desperate — it came with fewer responsibilities and effort.

Wonder how true that is of others?