As a Texan in a a red-red-red county, the eagerness of my neighbors to believe and regurgitate the attacks on the witnesses, an imperative to know the identity of and question the whistle-blower (despite the substance of the whistle-blower complaint being corroborated by multiple sources), and conservative talking…

I opened the replies to Dessen’s tweet and immediately developed the Sam Neill madness from Event Horizon. Like a suburban cargo cult built around a Precious Moments edition of Lean In.

Once again, it needs to be pointed out that in the real world, there is one and only one superpower: compound interest.

Trevor Cadbury was unavailable for comment. 

“Marion Nestle, a food studies professor at New York University”

Agreed. Miller is a monster and ...well... once should expect his generally stunted ass to try and monster as well as his deficient little ass can muster.

This reminds me of when Nicholas Sparks said he doesn’t write romance novels and that he was actually the natural successor to Hemingway, Shakespeare, and Euripides. (I’m 100% serious about this.)

Precisely. Swap out “The Trump Administration” for “The Catholic Church” in the above, and the same still applies.

It’s the same ridiculous tone policing that white men have been doing for eons. And note that Bernie Sanders literally yells (which I’m absolutely fine with btw) and he is rarely taken to task for it. Warren is even tempered in comparison, but that doesn’t stop the tone policing.

I’m curious about what specifically “doesn’t work” about consent cards in Kest’s case. Is it that when students are given the option they tend to be verbal about not wanting to be touched, as opposed to being able to take advantage of their silence?

I take an Iyengar yoga class where adjustments are sometimes done. Prior to the class starting, the instructor will inform students that when adjustments are necessary, s/he will ask students if they’re comfortable with that. When the opportunity arises, the instructor will discreetly request permission from the…

Warning, anecdata ahead:

I prefer ‘spinster’, myself.

It’s been a go to from Trumpites regarding the Epstein thing too for some reason and its fucking weird because it goes down to:

I really hope that Moscow Mitch is struck with a long, debilitating and painful disease that ends in a horrible death.

In many ways, Mitch McConnell is worse than Donald Trump.

Maybe this is a good place to brag on my wife (slightly OT):

Even better (and by better, I of course mean worse), the conclusion is always reached by working backwards from facts that can be ascertained only after the violation. How do we know that your outfit flaunted, rather than merely complemented, your body? Well, because the minds of our men and women were scrambled, of…

I’ve absorbed so much knowledge with my ass that it has six doctorates.

Has there ever been an instance where something offensive, ignorant, and bigoted was put in the entire context and everyone was cool immediately thereafter?