To Paradise, a novel novel GET IT?! (I’m tired after 704 pages!)
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Ye Ol’ Leadfoot
“The nation’s most disobeyed law is dysfunctional from top to bottom. The speed limit is alternately too low on interstate highways, giving police discretion to make stops at will, and too high on local roads, creating carnage on neighborhood streets. Enforcement is both inadequate and punitive. The cost is enormous. And the lack of political will to do something about it tracks with George Carlin’s famous observation that everybody going faster than you is a maniac and everybody going slower than you is an idiot. The consensus is: Enforce the speed limit. But not on me, please. Because while it would be nice to save 10,000 lives a year, it sure is fun to drive fast.” Slate.com
This was relentless and I loved it: “The improbable revival of Joe Rogan, America’s bro whisperer”
Framed for Murder By His Own DNA
“What happened, although months would pass before anyone figured it out, was that Lukis Anderson's DNA had found its way onto the fingernails of a dead man he had never even met.”
Foster Care, The State, and $$$
“But to youth advocates, the fact that many agencies spend children’s money on children’s services doesn’t make it better. That means kids are being made to pay for their own foster care — a public service that federal law and laws in all 50 states require the government to pay for.”
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MILK BLOOD HEAT, by Dantiel W. Moniz
“Writing is a solitary practice - until it’s absolutely not.” -DWM.
“Nope, nope, nope”
“Once I started to eliminate the things that didn’t feel in line with where I was trying to go, and that could potentially pigeonhole me from having that freedom as an artist, it was very helpful.”