Thank you so much for dredging up long repressed memories of having to play that fucking song in high school marching band post 9/11.

Either her or Phillip will get “sick” and so will Charles and Camilla, so it will fall on someone else to play host. William and Kate would be preferable because they don’t do that much and it would be worth it to stick them with the Trumps.

There was a very good book published in 2015 about that camp Ravensbruck. It’s fairly definitive and covers the full scope of its operations and its special importance in the Nazi concentration camp system. Part of the reason it’s not as notorious as Auschwitz, Buchenwald, or Dachau was that it is located in what…

For most of this country, the choice to avoid Wal-Mart unless absolutely necessary is a privileged choice. I make a conscious effort to avoid it unless I have no other options because I disagree with its labor practices, politics, and don’t care for the atmosphere.

I think most of us would find the turkey baster preferable to enduring the monthly ritual with Mike Pence/Paul Ryan/any male Republican.

Now that’s both a scary image and potential reality. I’m not sure that any woman would want to lie down between Karen Pence’s legs so that her creepy husband can knock her up so that she has another woman’s baby to play mommy for.

I don’t have kids, but I don’t have warm recollections of extended family gatherings from childhood. Most have the commonality of my late mother reminding my sister and myself not to eat any food prepared by my dad’s late mother and/or one of his sisters because they were/are awful cooks and have questionable food…

It’s even also difficult with older people who are supporters of the ACA and have voted Democrat to explain to them why I was so relieved when the repeal failed. I’m a single woman without children in my early 30s with a decent job and good insurance. I also have some family medical history, including a mother who…

I also understand that reasoning behind a younger, mid 30ish Serena Joy. The Tomi Lahren or Megyn Kelly comparison is probably more apt for today, because Fox News/alt right darlings are the teleevangelists of today.

Rottweilers, Dobermans, Dachshunds, Weimaraners, German Shephards, and German Shorthaired Pointers were also getting stopped at airports. Their ban was lifted when the US Customs Service realized that too many drugs were getting through. Beagles can’t catch all the drugs.

Wisconsin was underseeded, but can understand some of the reasoning behind its seeding. Their last week of conference play starting with that loss to Northwestern was unimpressive, with only the Senior night win against Minnesota and Big 10 tournament win against Northwestern as games where they played well. They’re…

I’m sure Alfred Kinsey would have found Mike Pence to a be a very fascinating person to study.

I’m more of a fan of the Buffyverse than of Firefly.  Firefly doesn’t hold up as well in retrospect despite it being Whedon’s TV baby and its cult following. It however is the one Whedon TV show that was shot for eventual Blu-Ray transfer. I’m okay with Buffy not being released on Blu-Ray because only seasons 6 &7…

A high school friend of mine’s parent taught in an urban elementary school from the late 1980s to mid 2000s. She knew it was time to retire when kids when kids were bringing knives to school with them into her classroom.

The undeserved IMO placement of police and public safety workers on a higher pedestal than other public sector workers, including teachers absolutely sickens and disgusts me. Of course our uber manly police officers and fire fighters deserve our unwavering and unquestioning support while the whiny female teachers…

The sad part about the child care industry is that for how much it costs parents, the staff spending most of the time with their kids are getting paid at or not much above minimum wage. Most of what they pay monthly goes to pay for the salaries of the management and senior staff, insurance and licensing, and the…

If impeachment does happen, it will be sooner than Summer 2018 because the GOP doesn’t want the spectacle of impeachment hearings of a GOP president to be a reminder to voters not to vote for them. They know they can count on the goldfish short memories of much of the American electorate to reelect them at both…

I thought he came across as trying to sound like a grown up and not a senior citizen man-child. I also thought he sounded like he was drugged. Perhaps the last part was because he wasn’t channeling Mussolini.

Johnson was also invited to one in Madison at the First Unitarian Meeting House, but didn’t accept the very nice, civil, and polite invite. One State Journal columnist who somehow still has a job when better ones were let go last year wrote a column calling both the participants at these empty chair town halls and…

I do think that the focus needs to be on the gubernatorial elections in the blue or purple states, as well as getting the Senate Democrats in tough races reelected. If the Democrats choose to focus on getting Democrats back in the governors’ mansions in Florida, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and are successful, that’s a…