This.

Harry Potter is ultimately the Chik-fil-A of the fantasy space now- some people have fond memories of it, it’s ultimately not very good, and the people who profit from it use that money to push a hateful agenda.

This is all colossal shit show, but the fact that there’s even a significant number of voices standing up against JK’s transphobia is heartening in a way. It reminds me very much of the anti-gay movements in the late 90's and early 00's - hopefully a sign that yet another form of bigotry is dying. 

Dang, you beat me to the Albuquerque reference! I was gonna say “YOU GOT ANY BEAR CLAWS?

All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels...

“Warehouse Employees Steal Over $35,000 Worth Of Video Cards”...

Thank you for your service. I will attempt to continue refraining from licking the lamp.

You sound like a white dude from Brooklyn whose all too comfortable talking about the “discrimination” and “apartheid” of a nation of indigenous people and refugees, the majority of whom are POC, and whose neighbors espouse political charters dedicated to their annihilation. It’s all so simple, isn’t it :)

There can be a difference between “sandwich” and “sando”. A sando is a distinct style of sandwich that originated in Japan.

But with regards to the other thing... I’ll bring the rags.  

So I guess it was a little bit like Romeo & Juliet.

so, you didn’t ask an economist because....? Even if you were looking for humorous answers, economists can be funny I swear. Try Luba Petersen, she studies exactly this question in some really innovative ways.

This calls for a celebratory Jelly-filled doughnut!

I don't think anyone will swap their cat for your toddler, sorry.

Count the Lies!

Some nuance here, for those unaware: What Prof. Hill said with regard to criticizing the occupation is 100% correct, this coming from an American Jew. The vast majority of ultras in Israel do not consider the 35% of American Jews who identify as Reform as even BEING JEWISH. They are some of the biggest hypocrites in…

As a tea drinker who wants the world to simply acknowledge that tea exists so I can order it and not be served a lipton tea bag of garbage, I thank you for this free publicity.

I am the official family leftie, having been born and raised in the SF Bay Area. The rest of my family is from a small town in Trump Country and most of them still live in the area where they grew up. So I’m the go-to relative for the kids of my cousins who are (pick one or more) coming out as gay, in an interracial…

Anti-Semites were into conspiracy theories before it was cool.

So here’s all the voter registration deadlines, compiled by the Root.