Huh. I never really thought about it that way, that a top sheet meant less duvet cover washing. I don’t like a top sheet, but I guess naturally came to the conclusion of washing/changing my duvet cover weekly to balance this.

Shaving twinsies! (Wednesdays and Sundays too, hate that stubble feel.)

For a lot of people, there is nothing to grab—outside my shower head, which is dangerous, and the soap dish of the tub, which is contortionist. Best to bend over to get the feet, just step away from the spray first. Loads safer too.

I always thought it was about gender, though, not a hierarchy of characters (or rather, a hierarchy of characters that intersected with gender): how a woman is a mere plot device, even in death, to the motivation of a man, and that that was the charge of ‘fridgings’ critical point of contention.

This quickening of revisionist history is an interesting point, and I think you are onto something there with Bush being Reaganified.

“Jeb¿”

I’m not sure that counts as fridging, as it has to be a death of a female partner that occurs (primarily for the narrative purposes of) to push forward the emotional evolution of a male lead. While very similar, the lead there was Willow, a woman. Perhaps I’m mistaken on the fridging def. though—do correct me if I’m…

Conservatives do not generally like spending money on the poor, this is true. What is also true, however, is that they also generally like keeping the poor impoverished. Their talk of ‘bootstraps’ is often touted as short-sighted by the left, who know the fallacy of the equal playing ground (the idea that people are…

Good God, the National Enquirer chaps my hide. That I have to see this blatant propaganda in grocery stores in CANADA drives me batshit. It was worse during the election, mind you--they had the most hateful and factually incorrect shit on Clinton on their front page week after week, alternating with stories of how…

Ha, gotcha. I’m applying for postdocs right now, and yeah, I’m not looking forward to extending the misery of the PhD (underpaid and overworked), but I still need/want one (necessary step).

What’s your research area? In my neck of the woods, landing a postdoc is definitely something worth celebrating--this must vary by field?

God, I haven’t thought about “The Jaunt” in at least a decade. I definitely found it the most disturbing of his stories--pure horror.

How did he rationalize voting for him? I get—vociferously disagree with—but do get voting third party in the last election. But voting FOR Trump?

The cognitive disconnect lies in them believing all illegal immigrants as being dangerous caricatures. They can’t believe Mr. Walters is being deported, because HE’S not a dangerous caricature (and therefore not an illegal immigant—it really is a quality of character in this understanding, not a legal term). Their…

Yeah, that’s frustrating.

Aw, I’m really sorry. Family can be really rough. At any rate, I and the overwhelming wash of others do validate your--may I say righteous--indignation.

I wanna say means things about your mom. Can I say mean things about your mom? Ugh, no, I’m sorry...I won’t say mean things about your mom.

It’s not complaint, it’s analysis.

Or when people are reduced, or reduce themselves, to the role of ‘taxpayer’. Like the ‘consumer’ version of belonging to a country. Citizen suggests to me responsibility to and engagement in the country; taxpayer denotes to me lazy ‘the customer is always right!’ bullshit, like a nation is a fucking company you’re…

It’s this tribalism that is the reason the fact that Trump said, “The best thing we can do, politically speaking, is let Obamacare explode. It’s exploding right now.” and so few people batted an eye. This is the elected leader of the United States who claims that national health care is in crisis, and that the best…