City of Dreadful Night

"Right—frugal brainwashed Obamabots, then? Not so, fast, our reporter cautions: “Paradoxically, they are also more cynical about public institutions and, arguably, about life, embracing the European notion that success is more about luck than effort.” Good Lord—it’s worse than we feared; the recession’s bred a generation of Europeans on our own shores! If nothing else, that explains the disturbing weakness among today’s youth for crappy club music."

[Chris Lehmann, on a budding generation--The Awl]

Merry Christmas, you beautiful old Building & Loan!

"Credulity--do you all know what that means?"

"Pete Souza, the Diane Arbus of place setting photography." -The Awl annotates the White House Flickr feed. Laugh laugh laugh.

Gonna go to Babylon and get me some whiskey

Allegoooorey