Yep, wouldn't want to confuse metaphorical beatings with the completely literal child abuse she's maintained her visibility by promoting.

Just wanted to say I hope you don't think talking about what happened to you on here is any less brave than if you talked about it with people you know. You probably already know that, but either way.

Charlie Goes Japan All Over Everybody's Ass

Oh Jesus. That poor kid, first of all, and second of all, that's the kind of description the Reaction Police are going to jump on. Between that and the fact that she's not skinny, I should probably stay off the Internet while this whole thing plays out.

Good. I'm sick of people doing shit non-connected people go to jail for and getting no more punishment than a heavily-recommended resignation.

Maybe if microwave burritos weren't so cheap.

Lorenzo is a prince— of New Jersey.

If we come out of this okay, the above is snark.

Not an option. Again, took me a year to find a job, hardly any savings.

I'm really, really terrified we're going to default. I'm having a legit anxiety attack as I type this. I'm really sorry, but I don't know where else to go; none of my family will answer the phone. I'm a year and a half out of college and I just got my first full-time job about two months ago and my wife and I found a…

Oh my God, yes, "Medusa's Coil" is just... the ending is pretty much just "OOGA BOOGA! BLACK PERSON!" and he writes it as though he can't for the life of him imagine anyone NOT shitting themselves at the thought. It's almost psychologically fascinating to watch it play out.

Hotline operation; there's a training period, but the signup page also point-blank says "This will be rough. Do you really think you can do it?" I think so, but I hope the actual practical setting doesn't prove me wrong.

Maybe the level of racism wasn't exceptional, but it was more a psychosis than an attitude for him. I mean, he brings up repeatedly in his letters and such that he had a pathological terror of having black ancestry. That's on a different level than "They're stupid and inferior and we can't let them marry our…

It'd be in the DC office; I already work in the city, so I figured I'd try to start volunteering. I didn't expect them to be so hardcore about the level of commitment they expect from the outset, but I'm very much in favor of it.

Thanks. I'm in the background check stage with RAINN right now, I'm just sick of feeling like I'm not doing anything about the things I find most appalling.

Go for that submoronic fucker Louie "Gohmert" Gohmert. His Mr. Burns-looking dome looks like it would make a fun sound when struck (WITH VOTES).

The idea of a small town that had some hideous secret that all of its residents were in on is a very common theme in his work (which unfortunately has a lot to do with his pseudoscientific racism, which was so all-encompassing that it considered rural white people to be an entirely different, vastly inferior stock…

Serious question that might not have an answer: What can I, or one, do about this, either this case specifically or just this kind of thing? I'm increasingly horrified and angry over it, but I know that rage or horror in a vacuum is useless and I'm starting to feel like I'm remiss in not actually doing something. The…

True stuff: "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" was him trying to come to terms with the bloodcurdling discovery that his great-grandmother was Welsh. It comes off as self-parody sometimes; it's like the mirror image of how every period piece shows the protagonist as unrealistically chill about race or gender.

You know who really understood what American small towns are all about? H.P. Lovecraft.