I can’t get over the fact that policy is being dictated via fucking twitter. What a shitshow.

Yeah, but if they are on recess when the firing goes down, can’t he name the replacement and avoid the confirmation process?

For the second half of my undergrad, I transferred from a public to religiously affiliated college and of my teachers was a nun. We had to do some sort of paper regarding our religious philosophy or how we were raised or something like that. I bravely wrote about how I had been raised as a pagan by my best friends…

I agree. Those of us in our crew that smoked started around 13. When I was around 16, a local news channel ambushed me and a couple of friends out on a lunch break on national smoke out with a guy who had a tracheotomy due to smoking. It was horrifying and gross and it was very effective. It was still a long time…

It’s a while back now, but Carnivale had a pretty sweet intro.

Ours was “My Heart Will Go On”, cause you know, who wouldn’t want a Titanic themed ending to the whole shebang?

That and the idea that if the south did “rise again” -whatever that means- that these ignorant redneck hicks will somehow be at the top of the social structure. It’s just mindblowing how easily played they all were.

I had a stack of stickers from a local new age store that said, “Freedom of religion means ANY religion” that kept getting ripped off and I eventually ran out. I don’t have the stones to put on the genius one a friend made that reads, “Republicans, Reliably Awful”.

I’m in Western New York. Somehow, flying a giant Confederate flag off the back of your pickup is a thing.

I share a house and the other car in the driveway has all of those stickers in addition to “extremely deplorable” and “pray for America” and of course several Gadsden Flags. Every time I come home I get angry all over again.

Not only could I not bring myself to watch it, I couldn’t bring myself to read more than five lines of the insipid lyrics.

I’m to the point where the only thing I found surprising about this is that he’s figured out how to embed a video in a tweet.

It depends. I grew up in the Roman Catholic Church and it absolutely was and is a thing at any parish I’ve attended. That little collection basket that goes around halfway through is where you are meant to put your envelope with your tithe. In fact, when I was a kid they would give you your own little box of envelopes…

She was Victoria!

She was also in Stardust, which, while at times was a bit of a train wreck, was charming.

Coughing. I do it every winter. It sucks.

I’ve got long hair and found that I can wash it less frequently if I rinse it in apple cider vinegar diluted in water with a couple of drops of essential oil in lieu of conditioner. It can smell a little bit like beer when it gets wet, but it looks great and cuts down on washing.

I disagree. It sends a message that prosecutors are willing to listen to survivors of rape and assault and work with them to see justice. We brush off what he did due to age, and we’re signaling that we’re ok with his crimes.

And what would that legal punishment be? That’s the part I don’t get; in their minds, what is the “illegal” thing he is guilty of?