The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. - Rachel Maddow

It apparently took a lot of layers of Brown & Root management and administration to turn a $14 sheet of plywood into an $86 sheet of plywood

the divide between haves and have-nots, fear and hatred of immigrants, white supremacist race hate, and antisemitism

We’ve done these mental-health assessment team studies for six years now — between nine and twelve [months] is where a lot of the stress problems really manifest themselves, where the family problems really manifest themselves,” former Army chief of staff George Casey said recently. “The human mind and body weren’t made to do repeated combat deployments without substantial time to recover.” The suicide rate among active-duty servicemen doubled in the first five years of the Afghanistan War and then kept rising. In the past decade, the US Army lost more soldiers to suicide than to enemy fire in Afghanistan.