We see what he did there
Ok I’m not going to join the rush to idolize John McCain, but this is a nice move:
John McCain requested that former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush deliver eulogies at his funeral, CBS News has confirmed. McCain, who had been suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer, died Saturday at the age of 81 at home in Arizona. Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Bush will deliver their remarks during a service at the National Cathedral.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will speak at a separate service honoring the senator in Arizona.
Zing. Very good.
I read the first portion of David Foster Wallace’s piece on his 2000 run for Rolling Stone. I can’t say that I like or even really admire the man, but reading Wallace’s account of his ordeal in Hanoi gave me a glimmer of imagination as to the kind of person he was, and why other people might admire him. (The snapshot of the then-cynical-but-naive-in-hindsight political culture, and the nostalgia it evoked in me, was an unexpected journey of its own.)
Article here, for the interested: rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/david-foster-wallace-on-john-mccain-the-weasel-twelve-monkeys-and-the-shrub-194272/
For when you literally have zero fucks left to give. Nice.