Scissors, paper, and pens were strewn across the carpet today when I came across this Frontline documentary, Age of Easy Money. The first thing that came to my mind at 0:17 was,

Yesterday, I was leaving a restaurant in Dallas, Texas with a takeout box of pork ribs and mac & cheese when a man -- spit flying -- repeatedly screamed

I’m flying my kid to Texas this week, then flying right back to savor the umami flavor of 8 whole days of humanhood.

also: “When we have shuffled off this mortal coil\*”\*—William Shakespeare.