Clearly not a child here. But I am a child of the 1980s and spent hot summers in band practice, drinking only soda. We were not encouraged to drink water, even after hours under the Texas sun. Ten years after HS graduation—BOOM, gnarly kidney stone. The urologist who treated me said it was likely from not getting…

I responded with details to kattahn.

OK.

Sure OK. ETA: You can also fuck off.

They revere their mascot, Reveille. The dog is always a female sheltie (I think). There is a corpsman assigned to her care, and he takes her to class with him. When my dad attended A&M, if Reveille was in class and barked, you were excused for the day. There is a graveyard for the dogs, right outside the stadium. It…

This is a surprisingly classy move for the toilet that is College Station. That place is full of proto-fascists and cousinfuckers and dead-dog-worshippers. I’m a little shocked he didn’t have more support there. Most of the students are his target demographic. However, well done, aggies. (Gotta go shower.)

Fargo the series is some of the best TV out there, period. I encourage you to start with the first season. Join us.

Frankly, the American press is being un-American at the moment, with a few notable exceptions.

I did see that; thanks for pointing it out. Eventually all this will pass on into history like it did before. In the meantime...sigh...

Per Palin: STEVE KING! HE.......STRONG! HE........GOIN’ ROGUE!

I’m replying to myself because this post from SIX YEARS AGO popped up and suddenly I’m getting a lot of comment traffic around it. Women can be victims of sexual crimes and Daniel Craig can also be sexually appealing, all at the same time. If you think men and women are sexualized in our media and culture equally, I…

Kill Bill 1 and 2 have some of the best fight scenes, period. Ever.

¿Porque no los dos? I, too, am a defense attorney. Both sentiments can be true at the same time. 1) Everyone, even the worst scumbag on the planet, deserves a defense. 2) This particular defense counsel is also a scumbag.

I too love this word, and am a ladyperson. Sometimes no other word will suffice.

My alma mater, UT, has a legit ex-student magazine, The Alcalde. I receive it in the mail, and put it out at my office for my clients to look at. And it probably has interesting stuff in it. I have never considered responding to an op ed in the student paper where I graduated 25 years ago. Although, it was a pretty…

I lived in Texas when James Byrd was dragged to his death behind the pickup of some asshole white supremacist shit-kickers out in Vidor (please avoid this city at all cost, it’s a garbagy hellscape). That happened in 1998. When I was googling to get my dates straight, I read that one of the murders was himself…

Just wait! Once OSHA goes by the wayside, there’s a good chance it will happen. Naturally it will be both a liberal conspiracy and Obama’s fault.

We need to have instructions or flash cards or flow charts or something to explain the difference between intolerance (like, say, painting swastikas or driving your confederate-flag-waving truck through a child’s birthday party) and people who don’t want to hear your racist shit any longer.

You lost! Get over it.

Thanks for talking honestly about this. I grew up in Texas, but I don’t live there now. I was a casual racist like most white kids, but loved my black and Mexican friends, and never connected those two things. As an older person, fiercely feminist and progressive, I wish I could change the things I believed back then,…