When this guy got appointed, I was like, “hey, Trump appointed a gay man to be ambassador to Germany and had Pence swear him in with his adoring husband alongside!” Then I researched him a little bit and was like, “I give him a month before they show him the door.”

If the GOP actually cared about American jobs, they’d go after the people that hire undocumented workers to make low-wage American workers feel insecure in the knowledge that they can always be replaced and drive wages down further.

You know why. Sigh.

Papaya Pol Pot is my new go-to.

A friend of mine spent a summer practicing her braiding on me, because this being Portland, she felt it behooved her to know how to braid Caucasian hair if she wanted to actually make a living. I got constant compliments for mine, and she got constant side eye for hers. That was the first time I really appreciated how…

So what if they do? They do that anyway. 

Worth noting that a lot of the Parkland kids took an AP Government class that had been discussing special interest groups that very week. In fact, their teacher had used the NRA as an illustrative example four times already that morning.

You don’t want my job. I mean, yeah, I can do it in my bathrobe with a cat on my chest and another on my legs, but my tendonitis is so bad that I can no longer hold a pen in my right hand. 20 years of writing on a laptop keyboard didn’t give me wrist problems. One year captioning, hitting delete and enter thousands…

That is because the GOP has spent the last couple of decades deliberately starving funding for education while increasing reliance on standardized tests to get what little money there is, and deliberately shaping the contents of those tests to exclude aspects of history they don’t like along with the basic civics that…

So would approximately one in three Americans.

I do closed captioning for a living, and except for unusual circumstances, like a first person testimony about something like the Holocaust or Rawandan genocide, where you transcribe every stammer, false start, and filler word, you clean up people’s speech as you go, not just eliminating those things but also…

So can we remind him forever and ever that he said Pro Publica was a reputable site rather than fake news?

What happened to Emmett Till and every other black man that was lynched because a white woman had the vapors was horrific. But Carolyn Bryant did not spend decades going out of her way to cultivate relationships with dozens of young black men in order to deliberately lie about them so they’d get beaten or lynched.

I really wish she’d said, “why should I be intimidated by someone I’ve beaten 19 times? Seriously, why is this even a “rivalry?”

Bullshit. Moving away from widespread use of disposable, single-use plastic products is absolutely crucial to the future of this planet and every person on it, and should not be delayed for one more fucking minute. There are loads of washable, reusable alternatives that restaurants can keep on hand for customers that…

Except for the rest of the world, where it is the most popular sport because a version of it can be played by the poorest of people, pretty much anywhere, with any ball-like object. Therefore the fact that only rich kids play soccer in America is kind of fucked up and backwards.

That American soccer is perceived as being for rich kids, despite it not being significantly more expensive than other sports and less so than others is particularly fucked up, given that the reason it’s the most popular sport in the world is that a version of it can be played anywhere with any ball-like object.

When I moved from DC to Portland in 1992, not one person I met knew that the citizens of our nation’s capital suffered from the very thing we went to war against the British for, but they all knew that our black mayor had been busted for crack. Just as City Paper used to always call Marion Barry Mayor-for-Life, he was…

“Claiming” to be US Senators. Like it can’t be verified in two seconds.

Here’s the thing, I’m not unilaterally opposed to any form of ride-sharing service anywhere, especially for communities like what you describe that are bereft of options. I’m just opposed to an unregulated ride sharing service flagrantly breaking multiple laws in cities that already have a wide variety of options that…