Paul Ollinger (@paulollinger): "I have 12 hours of my life that I could dedicate to exercise, being with my children, or writing new jokes, so as to advance my comedy career. OR, I could read Josh Ireland’s new book ‘The Death of Trotsky’, to learn more about: • The splintering of revolutionary movements, •…"

I have 12 hours of my life that I could dedicate to exercise, being with my children, or writing new jokes, so as to advance my comedy career.

OR, I could read Josh Ireland’s new book ‘The Death of Trotsky’, to learn more about:

• The splintering of revolutionary movements,

• How ideological purity inevitably devolves into paranoia and power struggle,

• Why hard-nosed pragmatism always beats out intellectual arrogance

Guess which one of these I’ll choose…

There’s an evolutionary reason why your dad hit a point in his life where he was forever parked on a Lay-Z-Boy reading about The Boer War.

Apr 5

11:34 AM