Like a diary, only far more masculine

When he was deployed in Iraq and a student at Yale Law School, J.D. Vance occasionally blogged. “It’s like a diary,” he wrote, “only far more masculine.”

Here’s what I learned about Vance from his blogs. (If you’re confused by the different names on the blogs, well, there’s a there.)

1. Getting emotional, he feels “more like a female than I think I ever have or will.

2. Except for Jesus Christ, Winston Churchill may have been the greatest man that ever lived, and his life was a lot like Vance’s.

3. He cries twice on one day. With one exception, this is the only time he’s cried since he was 13.

4. In the midst of having to write a long paper at Yale, he notes, “Apparently the Whiffenpoofs (or something like that), a Yale a cappella group, is having an open-bar event to celebrate their appearance on some reality show. Hopefully I can get done in time to go.”