Yeah, I feel it’s very important to note that that scene shows the passing-over of people’s allegiance from the god of the mastodon to the god of the buffalo, and that that change has a lot of ramifications. I love these reviews (especially compared to the Guardian American Gods reviews, which are almost unreadable…

I know this shit has been going on for years and it’s not her fault that this video got released concurrent with a suicide bomber murdering two dozen kids and teens at another pop star’s show, but boy I extra do not give a shit about this feud today of all days.

You forgot, “Also he’s going to Israel, the state that gave us the top-secret information about the war on ISIS that he then casually passed on to Russians in a casual Oval Office chat.”

God, can you imagine how his wattle would wobble?

It’s worth noting also that until last week, Rod Rosenstein also had a reputation for scrupulous honesty and diligent hard work - those reputations are very difficult to get, and they can be ruined with a single misstep, as Rosenstein is now learning. Why Rosenstein chose to do what he did with the Comey letter is…

In fact, I did not edit at all, but that’s fine if you need the excuse for your poor reading comprehension.

In fact I described two levels of immunity, one of which is available to embassy staff above the service level, and which would protect staff while on the job.

In fact, people with diplomatic immunity carry a card that says they are not liable “to any form of arrest or detention,” and that “all appropriate steps shall be taken to prevent any attack on the bearer’s person, freedom, or dignity.” Like, I’m having trouble imagining what you think diplomatic immunity is, if you…

Most financial advisors suggest you spend 25% of your income on rent. For $1500 to be 25% of your rent, you would need to make $72,000 a year. The median income for the whole of the US is $52,000 a year.

Considering that the average rent of the first three places you mentioned are all above $1,000 per month (and Seattle is over $2k) and that literally all of them are represented in red on this handy map of year-on-year rent growth that just came out this month, I’m going to go ahead and confirm what I already…

This all day long. Every single conversation about cultural appropriation on Jezebel quickly gets turned into the world’s most repetitive and basic argument. Anywhere else on the internet, I’m inured to the fact that we’ll be having the same conversation about “Does homophobia/racism/TERF feminism/[insert obvious…

Right, I’ll just move to a place where the average rent is the recommended 24% of my current income - and watch my income drop by 50-100%, because there are no professional jobs in East Bumblefuck, Oklahoma, or wherever you’re envisioning I move to. Where I now also cannot afford to live, on account of my job is now…

In the book it’s pretty clear that all cats are Bast/Bast can inhabit any cat, while it’s ALSO true that the Egyptian gods can turn themselves into the animals they’re associated with (Horus goes crazy and spends all his time as a falcon). So they can both be true, that Bast IS the hairless cat and that she also IS a…

Considering Jones is amazing enough in this role I’m thinking he’ll rack up a handful of awards for it, I can see a future in which we are so blessed.

The only way I got through high school math was my father. I called him on the phone every. single. night. and he helped me do my homework. We worked out a little private language to communicate complicated algebraic equations over the phone. Then, if we were VERY lucky, I’d remember the bare minimum of what we spent…

A rare exception to the journalistic trope that any rhetorical question in a headline can be answered in the negative.

There is no sensation so out of proportion in the amount of damage it actually does compared to how miserable it feels than the feeling of being stuck long-term in a space where the seat-to-next-chair-back length is shorter than one’s own hip-to-knee length. It becomes so viscerally unpleasant so quickly!

It’s been a bad year and a half for the democratic experiment, is all I’ll say. It seems like every chance they’ve gotten for the past 18 months, people everywhere have made the worst-possible of all the choices available to them, with few exceptions or mitigations. I’m glad the French aren’t among them (yet).

I genuinely don’t think I’ve been this excited for the release of ANYTHING since the last Harry Potter book came out.

Yeah, “I’ve wasted the last 30 years reading articles I don’t like” is not the most interesting or convincing pitch I’ve ever heard. It doesn’t make me think anything’s wrong with the articles, it makes me wonder what’s wrong with the commenter.