And now Roy Moore can be added to that list.

This particular story that just broke is making me giddy. These fucking fuckers are unbelievable!

He is, and you know what? If he really stuck to his convictions, I would have some (grudging) respect for him, But all it takes is a round of golf with the Circus Peanut, and he’s all OH NEVER MIND.

I wish I could say with confidence that that kid grows out of it beyond 7th grade, but I can’t. I teach in college now, and rest assured I’ve got one of these in my classes more often than not. Reaction of the rest of the class whenever he opens his mouth:

My favorite quote in all of this was the neighbor who said Rand “certainly believes in stronger property rights than exist in America.” As soon as I heard that everything made sense: I had simply forgotten that Rand is truly an libertarian asshole’s libertarian asshole.

Mike Huckabee reminds me of that kid you had class with you sophomore year of college in 7th grade.

It’s so obvious why he’s doing it too. These guys love the division politics. It’s what gets them elected. So they’re going to spin even something as innocuous as this into a Dems vs Republican story.

I think these people forget “biology” is a thing. And that the concept of a gender binary is unique to European derived societies.

Their feud started when Rand Paul stole his neighbor’s backup dancers. There’s been a lot of bad blood since then.

Right?! Like wtf was that.

I am. I don’t get why we’re avoiding such an obvious option.

So neither will say what caused it but Rand is “encouraging” lines of inquiry that imply his neighbor was politically motivated?

Oh, you can’t be so sure of that. (Yes you can!)

Predictably, AfD (Alternative for Germany), the new far-right party in the German Bundestag, was outraged.

Thank you also for the much-needed periodic reminder that Mike Huckabee is garbage.

My guess is this: They had a fight about something — anything — and both guys have plausible arguments that the other guy started it or touched him first. Paul gets beaten up badly and is embarrassed, but frames it as an attack and hopes it goes away. But when it turns out that his injuries are pretty severe and that…

Well, one thing that’s going on is that Rand Paul is exactly the libertarian asshole of a neighbor that you would expect him to be. As the developer of the gated community that Rand lives in has said, Paul is the kind of guy who moves in to a development with a 13-page covenant on rights and restrictions that everyone…

This sounds reasonable for people who don’t fall into the two categories.

Neat. Can we agree on they as the gender neutral pronoun too?

Yay! I’m glad that this is happening, and especially for intersex folks and nonbinary folks, both of whom tend to be forgotten in discussions around LGBTQIA issues.