12 grandkids, “whopping”? Not even close, that piddling amount. I have 35ish first cousins (lost track of some over the years). I think my grandma finally faked getting senile just for a rest.

Megan, thank you for standing up against big a cappella. The snark gave me life on this bleary hangover morning, even if I feel you might have pulled some punches.

100% endorse this hot take.

Hot take: Jeff Buckley’s cover of Hallelujah is the definitive. All other versions can go home and take a seat. This one can sit in the cold, dark, moldy basement.

So, this is the fascist playbook at its most naked —everyone look at this carefully, please. Random grown, young men, in the prime category for perpetrating terrorist activities, sail easily into the US from Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Egypt, and the Sudan. Their immigration goes largely unchecked. Instead, the most…

Well, you fragile menfolk can all sleep easy tonight, knowing you’ve been successfully protected from a group of girls who might have otherwise bled all over you. BOOOOOOO~OOO SCARY SCARY FEEEEEEMAAAALES!! COMIN’ TO GET YOUUUUUU, DONNIE SMALLHANDS!!

Well, I know I feel safer here in this shining city on the hill, this beacon of freedom, this safe harbor for the wretched and yearning, this symbol that if you work hard you can achieve anything!

LOOK AT THIS. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Poor Donal Logue. As a dad myself, I can only imagine what this poor guy is going through. Not knowing where my kid is or if he’s safe is the stuff of nightmares. I really, really hope there will be a happy ending and he gets to hug Jade again. I really hope she’s safe.

Allison Moore and Shelby Lynne are releasing their first duets album in August. The track list looks pretty exciting:

Jesus. As someone who sustained a traumatic brain injury from a car wreck, and who will never be the same, I actually feel for both parties. This is hugely traumatic. And I think that it might actually be worse to have caused one. If anyone has any empathy at all, the notion that trying to get through an intersection…

I think most of us have done this before, sometimes unintentionally when the traffic on the other side of the intersection suddenly stops. Seems like both parties were at least partially at fault though. Regardless, what a terrible situation.

Nope. still a hard pass on them. As they still apparently think gay people repressing their “evil” desires is all fine and good. I’ve never been more horrified than after I watched this video from them about this poor woman who admits and take pride in “overcoming” it. Go to 3:50 or so and watch to the end.

But now ladies are not only allowed to no longer suffer financial penalties for biology, they also can wear pants - misogyny solved, equality achieved.

I’d imagine it’s because they think the woman should work up until the point where she has her first kid, and then her job for the next 20-25 years is being mommy, a la the 1950's nuclear family ideal.

That and also it seems they’re really into “gender roles” so probably didn’t believe many in their congregation (which is likely the majority of people who are on their staff) needed it.

The only way this should have gotten rebooted is if this is all just a hoax, and when you finally go in to the theaters, Tom Cruise discovers the mummy is actually Brendan Fraiser, and then when Tom Cruise asks him how he got there, he says “Let me explain,” and then the 1999 film starts playing, and you watch that…

I think he’s kind of hot in a Doug Stamper kind of way. Conventionally attractive? Nah. But if you’re into that intelligent, intimidating, Washington power trip kinda thing, then yeah kinda!