You realize that the point wasn’t that he shouldn’t be referred to as Governor, but that he hasn’t done anything of note since he stopped being governor a long, long time ago, right? I mean, it’d be pretty embarrassing to write a hundred words calling someone dumb while misreading what they said.

Millennials on Twitter:

And the best part is that it’s just going to sharpen her. She’s inexperienced so she has a lot to learn, but having a target on her will force her to sharpen her game in a way that other new members won’t ever experience.  I’m confident she can step-up her game now that she knows everyone is coming for her.

1. Fuck Mike Huckabee

Moon landing was LUNAR, not LOONEY

These Republicans fell victim to one of the classic blunders: Never get involved in a land flame war in Asia with a Millenial.

The perfect moment for one of my favorite thing:

Poster Plagiarizes Poster’s Pithy Post Positing Poetic Peers Plagiarized by Pushcart Prize Poseur

I don’t mind writer specific tropes all that much. Like Stephen King. Lots of his stories take place in Maine and often feature an alcoholic or religious nutjob at least as a side character. You can even download and print Stephen King trope bingo cards. I find it more funny than anything.

I’m not a writer or a poet but changing broken landscape to foreign topography offended me on a very basic level.

Rachel McKibben posted on Twitter that the teeth image wasn’t (just) a metaphor, but an image from her own experience as an abused child.

The music industry has increasingly gotten crazier due to lawyers, I think. These are people with no knowledge or concern for the creative process, only what can be exploited for money. This leads to BS like suing (and somehow winning!) because a flute solo sorta- quotes a 50 year old song that’s still under…

Yes!  At what point does it cease being plagiarism and become pastiche?  (I guess concealing the sources is what keeps it plagairistic.)

It’s a remix, like a literary DJ. Gotta pay for your samples though.

I feel like if you can cobble together classic literature and wildlife websites into actual romance novels, you’ve at least got a skill at editing that should be recognized. 

My old boss told this story about how his great grandfather had worked in a car plant and had stolen a car one part at a time until he had a whole car.

Ugh, I went to school with someone like that. You’d tell her a story about, like, how you once broke down on a highway and the dude who stopped to help looked like an axe murderer, and then three months later, she’d be like, “Hey, did I ever tell you about the time that I broke down on the highway and a guy stopped to…

Awh...

When I was working on a project, this guy started telling stories that were lifted word for word from Bill Maher’s novel. I’m probably the only other person to have read it. Of course, since I’m a dick, I told everyone, and we spent the rest of the project talking about the time the we were walking home in a ham…

I knew someone who pretended to be traumatized by a horrible childhood when in reality her childhood was idyllic (source: her siblings and also none of the things she gave as examples of abuse were even close to abuse. It could be things like her mother had ignored her when she called because the mother was making…