Henry Grabar: You wrote this in March 2018, which was a pretty banal month by Trump administration standards. Do you remember what you were thinking of specifically?

Frank Wilhoit: I don’t believe there was a topical stimulus. I was responding specifically to that particular posting on Crooked Timber. And the mildly viral quote was just the punchline of a substantially longer posting, which attempted to lay out some of the context. Of course the context could easily be exploded to book length but no one’s got time for that.

Thread in question he was responding in

Hilarious episode

Yet none are dropped?

I got the Sony SRS-XB10 specifically because it has a range as low as 20hz… not sure if there are newer ones out that are better now