I woke up at 4.30 this morning for no reason and couldn’t go back to sleep. I’ve been a sleepy grumpy zombie all day. Now I’m fucking WIRED and nervous and refreshing Google news like I’m a rat and the button fires a bolt straight to the pleasure center of my tiny rodent brain (it doesn’t, the button brings no…

Considering that we’re at least nominally in a coalition with Russia against ISIS? And that because of that coalition, the Russians have been allowing us to like, fly our planes around their bases in Syria without just shooting them out of the sky? And given that the Russian military is entwined with Assad’s, such…

And if we’d wound up exactly here less than 100 days into the Clinton presidency, I’d be nervous, but at least I’d know there was a foreign policy expert in the White House who would have other experts advising her on how to thread this incredibly dangerous needle. And the White House probably wouldn’t be a chaotic…

The sorting by size issue drives me crazy. Their shoe section has been missing size 11 for at least three months now for absolutely no reason - they go from 10 to 12. It just seems so lazy and easy to fix if anyone gave a damn about doing things right.

I get what you’re saying but Sandi Toksvig is a goddamn treasure and so for her alone I will watch (even though I previously said I wouldn’t because Mel and Sue are irreplaceable).

I haven’t seen La La Land because I can’t imagine I’ll enjoy it, and Hidden Figures was great. For me, the absurd-to-the-point-of-upsetting snub/undeserved acclaim of this Oscar season was Arrival getting so many nominations for start-to-finish mediocrity while Loving, which is damn near the perfect film, while Loving…

Sure, but with 26 Democrats, 2 Independents, and 9 Republicans up for re-election in the Senate, and most Congressional seats comfortably safe, the odds are slim. Remember also that “get out the vote” campaigning works both ways - the harder Dems work to mobilize their supporters, the more the Repubs will do the same.

I mean, maaaybe? Except that we’re certainly not flipping the House or the Senate in 2018 (the number of Democrats up for re-election in the Senate is far, far more than the number of Republicans, and they have a very strong House majority while gerrymandering makes it hard to flip more than a few seats) and that…

Telling people they’re doing a good job is always worthwhile. Also, it’s worth noting that in a lot of cases, there’s a diversity of liberal opinion, so calling can help make your representatives aware of which of the potential stances you want them to take.

Lol no wonder you find the law a blunt instrument if you’re laborin under the delusion that the literal only options available are “allow parents to release tension by hitting their children,” or “everyone’s in foster care!”

Nothing you’ve said is wrong, but I was not put on this earth to spend time bending over backwards to find empathy for people who cannot themselves empathize with their own small children. Parenting is hard. Most people also have the choice not to do it.

Yeah, it literally is hitting. If you are a person who spanks your child (open hand, closed hand, belt, slipper, whatever) you are a person who hits your child.

I love how instead of enshrining the eminently sensible, even-kids-understand it idea of “don’t hit people” in law, we instead have lawmakers debating and deciding exactly how and how much we can hit our very young children. I seriously just adore the idea of grown men and women arguing the granular differences…

And while we’re at it, why are you spending money buying expensive brand-name toothbrushes and paste, when there are perfectly good fibrous sticks outside free to pick up, and they do the same job!

Not only is it not sterile, but there’s literally no reason why it would be. Like, what other bodily secretions are you expecting to contain none of the billions upon billions of bacteria that live in every system of your body?

I was sucked into WOW by cheap flights to London, but the stopover in Reykjavik had me curious, so I took a week there - it was worth every cent. We didn’t do a single thing there that wasn’t absolutely fantastic, and we had such a great time exploring a countryside that was super-drivable but also nearly empty of…

On January 20th, despite everyone’s best efforts...

Robert Pattinson must just look around at his life every day and shit himself with delight. Like, that dude is LUCKY.

If people had actually spared a thought for checks and balances during the whole two-year campaign, they probably wouldn’t have spent so much time pouting about Sanders and worrying about the fact that Clinton gave speeches to Wall Street bankers.

I actually have less than zero idea who French Montana is, and I haven’t looked it up because there’s no way that knowledge will improve on the way my brain fills in the blank.