Smart Linus dropping good natured zingers on Less Smart Linus was the tonic I didn’t know I needed.

Chemical Plant Zone, Sonic 2.

I don’t think he ever shied away from pointing out its tragic inevitability if you push a group of people far enough, but his goal was always to avoid it.

…it is as necessary for me to be as vigorous in condemning the conditions which cause persons to feel that they must engage in riotous activities as it is for me to condemn riots. I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots. But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard.

and the pitcher on the mound… this is all coming together

does “every fucking word that came out of my mouth” count?

I’ve always liked “waste of skin”

noted, ty