Summary: On The Gist, Paul Ryan cared about just one thing: cutting taxes.<br><br>Word choice is not always the most stimulating place to start an interview with an author, but it works when you’re talking to <a href="https://twitter.com/askanyone">Sloane Crosley</a>. The essayist defends metaphors like “Holocaust bunk bed” and the related analogy, “as if the Brady Bunch were filmed in Nazi Germany.” Crosley’s latest book—a collection of essays—is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374279845/?tag=slatmaga-20"><em>Look Alive Out There</em></a>.<br><br>In the Spiel, Congress failed to pin Mark Zuckerberg down.
