john updyke who grew up in PA not far from hollidaysburg once wrote: each day we wake so back and the person we were yesterday is so over. so why be afraid of being so over, when so over comes all the time? i underlined the shit out of that quote. there’s something nice about the idea of being so over every day… and of being so back. and so back. and so back.
The person of interest nabbed in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an anti-capitalist Ivy League grad who liked online q
It’s the NY Post, but:
The former prep-school valedictorian was caught with a gun, silencer, four fake IDs with names used during the killer’s stint in New York City — and a manifesto, sources said.
The manifesto railed against the US healthcare industry, including over its enormous profits and alleged shady motives, sources said.
Mangione had a particularly personal reason to hate the medical community — its treatment of an ailing relative, sources said.
Online obituaries show he lost a grandmother in 2013 and grandfather in 2017.
His LinkedIn page indicates that he once worked in an assisted-living facility for the elderly for a few months in 2014, while still in high school.
There it is.
Wait, here’s more at the dynamic/updating CNN article:
Police are questioning a man in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in connection with the shooting and killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, t
Among the lines in the two-page document found on “strong person of interest” Luigi Mangione are the following two quotes: “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done,” a police official who has seen the document told CNN.
In the note, Mangione says he acted alone and that he was self-funded.
The document railed against the health care industry and suggested violence is the answer, according to the official.
i understand why the second won but i feel like the first would be really fucking OOF in the right context like calling someone their nickname from when you were kids even though no one calls them that anymore and you haven’t called them that in years, or someone always addressing you formally until once in a tender moment they call you by your nickname. or like in supernatural when dean calls castiel “cas” once and then in the same episode all the other angels and everyone else start calling him cas too like that’s his name now