Side note: I am fascinated by these joint-PR-campaign fails. It’s like when Tom Hiddleston trusted in Taylor Swift’s PR game and it blew up in his face.

I used to be careless with it and just sing/rap it when listening to music. I wouldn’t have used the word in any other context but hadn’t considered it was also not appropriate in that context. Maybe because I wasn’t doing it in front of anyone (usually alone in my car). It took seeing someone get called on it several…

Jezebel is interested in outrage.

Probably? Every music fan sometimes sings along with their faves, right?

I’m getting uncanny vibes from those People mag pics of Anderson Cooper.

Is a stan a regular an or someone unhealthily obsessed? Calling people pathetic for people a fan of a book series is pretty lame.

I have a Master’s in Writing for Children and am an agented (but unpublished) children’s author. J.K. Rowling was and still is a huge influence on my life. The Harry Potter books saved my life as a kid during Hurricane Katrina and gave me the courage to face a lot of frightening situations during that time. When I was…

“Defund the Police” They need to come up with some new branding asap. I had no idea what this meant until I read an explainer (maybe on Vox) and it actually sounds like a reasonable idea well worth exploring, but that phrase is not going to convince a majority of people to listen to any details at all. That concept is…

This is yet another example of liberals giving fucking terrible names to worthy causes. Defund the police sounds like it’s abolishing the police. What it’s actually doing is drastically reducing the size and duties of the police to be shit like violent crimes and traffic duty while trained mental health workers will…

Bingo! It’s worth remembering he was elected in the first place by the barest of minimums. Less than 100,000 people in three states made him President and he’s only gotten LESS popular since then.

I was today years old when I learned that the Queen had a third son.  I’m 49.  How have I never known this?

Key thing to remember is that no matter what the slogan means to us, it will be spun by the Right in whatever way makes it look the craziest and most dangerous idea ever. I mean shit, they cannot even understand Black Lives Matter without willfully twisting it to mean that their White lives don’t. You can imagine what…

Time to unfurl the Make America Grate Again banner.

Wow. So mission accomplished, huh? 

“Defund the Police” is a stupid slogan that anyone with two brain cells to rub together could turn into a really effective attack ad.

Because he wants to actually win in November?

How would choosing a progressive black woman as opposed to a more moderate black woman help him win Florida, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or North Carolina? Those states all went to Trump in 2016 and and are filled with moderate voters and Trump fans who come out for elections. Biden can’t win without…

Ban police unions. Their only purpose is to make sure cops who murder continue to be cops.

I disagree.  I believe that, due in part to his age, his VP candidate needs to be someone who can be viewed as an active member of his administration, as well as a literal President-in-waiting.  I think Kamala Harris is the only one whom mainstream undecided middle-of-the-road America can potentially be comfortable…

If lots of people just do the bare minimum we’ll be rid of this scumbag.