Are writers psychopaths? I don’t know, psychopathy bespeaks a level of focus and determination that one does not normally associate with writers (I mean, not the “good” ones). But some study shows that “creative people have psychopathic personality traits,” so…

“I prefer a world with alcohol than without. I don’t understand how people get through this world without drinking.”
 — They have probably stopped making men like Joe Allen, and given the way the world is changing that may be for the best, but it’s worth wondering what we’re losing as those guys pass into history.

Congratulations to the folks at OZY (me neither), who currently own the SEO on “IS THIS THE NEXT ‘HAMILTON’?”

I guaranfuckingtee you Tom Brady sleeps on a mattress that costs easily more than twice whatever shocking price the Washington Post is pretending to be shocked by.