Record collecting is a personal, irrational human endeavor. That’s an admission against interest or an insanity plea. It lets you inhabit a private space of chosen decades, genres, or artists. It’s also a vow of self-inflicted poverty....
Padilla's remarks draw approving nods from those who revel in the open display of smart-shaming, where “bopol” has become a signifier of authenticity....
The issue has been muddied and muddled many times over, and repetition has made false allegations a reality in the minds of many voters, such that now, characters with shady pasts are projecting themselves as lily-white alternatives to an electorate scandalized by the whole flood control affair....
