“and when beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles...

i like aj tracey’s flow and his voice, it’s a good song, but sonically it’s not much a dmx homage. for me a serious homage would have opened up with some acapella wailing and/or featured someone rhyming in patois as an analogue to sean paul and mr. vegas in top shotter.

“but we absolutely did not need to hear the voice of an 80 year old white woman on what happened today.”

“This oversight isn’t new—it’s just the latest instance of the medical field dismissing the healthcare needs of people who menstruate.”

with apologies to jigga:

freeze-dried strawberries. 

i’m about as liberal as it gets on immigration: i think anyone who wants to move to america permanently ought to be able to just come here, provided (a) they are not felons in their prior country of residence, (b) they are not actual terrorists, and (c) they agree to pay taxes.

all the people who came here to post about how smoke (from outdoors in many cases) irritates their oh-so-sensitive nasal passages should be sent on one-way time travel journeys to 80 years ago when people were allowed to smoke in elevators and on airplanes. or before then, to when people had to burn coal or wood in…

outside is literally where they’re supposed to be smoking. also, you *can* open your window, you’re just being precious about it. 

“I doubt I would want to watch other people play it for any length of time”

“They take massive shits wherever they want”

please. it’s “demonrats”. 

tangential question: what do you think the rules are for which kinds of shoes/sneakers can be called “kicks”? 

“Amazon is following the law re: taxes.”

the conduct of the police here is atrocious and unacceptable, but we should also be flagging the other problem: that it is still acceptable (and legal? not sure how the specific rules vary by state) to beat children as a form of discipline.

this is now ~a month out of date, but when i was first reading about the wave of voter-suppression laws being introduced a commenter noted that the brennan center was tracking them, and (at least as of 2/19/21) the news wasn’t as horrible as i had feared: “state lawmakers have carried over, prefiled, or introduced 253…

the video is now blocked on copyright grounds, so no one going forward will be able to do so without searching elsewhere.

my still-to-this-day favorite towel i’ve ever owned is a california raisins towel: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1987-large-california-raisins-beach-491039805

hmm, i usually go with “in the sea” but i suppose the sea doesn’t deserve to have to deal with such numpties. 

yeah, the jump from “you get a free doughnut” to “everyone will go and get one every day” is pretty ludicrous.