--"as a pretext for a greater crackdown" Brian Beutler
--"Trump's king-like behavior" Brian Beutler
--"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." G.K. Chesterton
--"a nausea of the cells and soul" David Foster Wallace
--"Butt cracks and beer bellies"
--"metaphysical angst"
--"a dirge about enduring in the face of meaninglessness" Ed Simon
--"and the streets were lined with leafy sycamore trees" Ronald Munson
--"untethered to the facts" Judge Karin Immergut
--"his formerly full face deeply wrinkled and shrunken" David Kertzer
--"a rueful recognition"
--"Marriage is the classic betrayal." Joan Didion
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