My in-laws were full in this weekend on blaming mean kids and bullies and totally parroting the right wing creed that all shooters are scorned lovebirds.

Have you heard Welsh spoken? No one has a clue what those little white girls are saying.

Good for you.

Seriously. Went to lunch today and the waitress was speaking Spanish and English fluently and remembered my usual order after I’ve only been there 3-4 times. Meanwhile this whitey can’t dress himself without help, much less converse.

Ah, an American, I see. A Canadian would have said “toque” so you may pass.

I’m 100% behind this. I grew up in rural America were “male” started at “certain genitals” and also had mandatory “hates books” “loves hunting” elements. I’m about as stereotypical old white cishet as you can get, in the real world, but not where i grew up.

Seriously. At a high school event recently I sat near some (young, male) teachers discussing the black leggings trend among their students. It wasn’t the coarsest locker room talk I’ve heard, but it was wholly inappropriate.

I think you’re wholly right with the class idea and glad you mentioned it.

I went for Mexican at lunch. The staff switched effortlessly between English and Spanish depending on the table and the customers. I’m frankly amazed by that skill.

I have known women with patchy beards, wide shoulders and hands that could palm a basketball and men with no ability to grow facial hair, squeaky voices, and petite builds...none of whom were trans. The idea that we can tell someone’s gender, biological/identified/anything, from a look is ridiculous.

A relative recently retired at 55 with family health insurance until 65, paid by the employer, and a lifetime pension of 66% salary, based on her final three years of earnings, which were $85k-ish in part because unaccredited degrees were allowed to count as graduate work beyond required for bonus dollars. I fully…

One of my gun-loving friends was almost personally offended when I said I usually will leave a place if/when I see some cowboy openly carrying. I don’t know this armed person and what they are thinking, other than this is someone who feels it necessary to show the world they are armed.

Because if they make it a hobby unavailable to people who need to support themselves, you get a fine collection of trust funds, kept women and religious zealots and that’s exactly what they want.

Here’s always my problem: what you’ve said is entirely accurate and a major problem, and yet the declining benefits for teachers still put them ahead of many of us in, public and private sector.

The people I know who bet football games—largely illegally—are betting 15-20 per weekend and aren’t the sort of fans who go to stadiums to cheer.

This is my standing SkyBet EPL wager on Leicester. I won three times this season.

In theory, it makes sense, but my understanding (not a Treasury LEO or anything) is the costs of quality forgery outpace the benefit of small bills.

Living in a city with a large Puerto Rican population, I sadly can report this is often the case. They’re all Messicans to some people.

Yes, but that’s why it’s such a brilliant criminal conspiracy...says no one ever.

I always enjoy your articles, Michael. I’d love a book of your writings. And not just because it would make people real uncomfortable when I read it in on the train.