Luckily this episode gives us a faster start than the previous one, with sharp digs at America’s history of failures in Afghanistan and Iran. Seriously.
The premise of this episode involves Denis Leary being frustrated with what he sees as an unimportant mission (handling traffic for another base’s scheduled tank practice) and concocts a more palatable mission (stealing a tank).
Four years ago, the news was so alarming I reached out to a wise person for advice on how to process the disorienting reality I was living in.
Some of their advice included a different way to think about the Internet, with the first step of displacing social media’s role. They suggested viewing my browser app as a newspaper, returning to an earlier, website-based form of surfing the web now replaced by doomscrolling.