from Moose’s trainer after he died... makes u think

What do you mean “if”?

Ok. You go ahead and ask them why they hate mommy if you want. They’re your kids, she was reflecting on how psychologists say not to use that language that is personalizing the experience because empathy is a mature concept and small children don’t understand it. And sometimes it is better to let them say something…

I saw Martha when she toured with Rufus back in 2010 and had brought Arcangelo on tour. She opened, he played two long sets, and then she came out to sing a couple songs with her bro (including their mom’s ‘Walking Song’ — so good) during the encore with the little babe on her hip. It was really sweet.

I’m just going to speak to the last Q: No one said you’re supposed to reinforce it. You can say “no, that’s not nice,” or “that isn’t acceptable,” or “that play is too rough” or whatever makes sense for the situation/age of the child, but these physical outbursts aren’t inherently mean. They can feel that way, though.…

Long live the McGarrigle/Wainwrights, in whatever form. There isn’t one of them that doesn’t have more raw talent in their little finger than most of us will ever have anywhere at any time. They are a goddamn national treasure.

I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I’m all right for you

You know...I kinda thought that looked a lot like Brando. Oh well, now I feel much better about my strong attraction! Sweet, Brando didn’t murder Jews!!!

That’s Marlon Brando in a movie costume from The Young Lions as a Wehrmacht officer. Whom weren’t necessarily members of the Nazi party. You want Hugo Boss style and a real Nazi, you go Schutzstaffel.

That is all bullshit, and it has a whiff of racism to it too. People who dismiss the “moderate rebels” that way tend to be bigots who think most Arabs are Muslim terrorists.

I am so tempted to dismiss this empty comment, but I think it would illustrate my point far better to highlight it.

Yeah, no it’s not.

The isolationist left is less of a policy position and more of an ideological rejection of policy. My experience debating with such people is they have little knowledge of the details or concern for the rest of the world. It’s really just isolationism, though they scream and say it’s a “neo-con slur!” if you use that…

Let’s be clear, the Syrian Army is more accurately the “Syrian Army”. A large part of the forces are militia troops funded by private Alawi businessmen associate with Assad. They pay better than the actual Army does. Not to mention mercenaries (many of which are Hazara from Afghanistan), Iraqi Hashd forces and…

There’s a man in Aleppo named Mohammad Alaa Jaleel who takes in stray kittens, and other animals. He runs a shelter for them.

This is where I break with the Jacobin/ Intercept left. Aleppo was under horrific fire from Russia before the election. In the last year, Russian shelling killed more civilians than ISIS has in all of Syria, and twice as many civilians as the entire UAV drone strike program has since 2004.

Yeah- good thing all those innocent kids are dying. Fuck ‘em for being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who needs empathy when you can be smug instead?

Thank you, Neville Chamberlain.

Assad’s thugs are carrying out summary executions in the streets and in buildings. There are bodies everywhere of men, women, and kids. Survivors will disappear into the regime’s prisons to be tortured. I’m watching the last Periscope, etc. streams from activists I’ve long admired.