Oh my.

No wistful sighing comments about the good old days?

Right now I’m coping with a cat parked on my chest and shoulder and purring in my ear.

I’m grateful to you for “a shit-filled tart with hot garbage frosting” — that description made me smile just now, and I really really needed it.

Being a busy host, especially with cooking, is the best way to appear social without having to engage in actual uncomfortable conversation.

I chipped in, because election tampering seems a real possibility, and we should want to know the truth. If a recount suggests tampering, we as a nation can take steps to better protect our process in future elections. I doubt recounts are going to change the Republican chokehold we find ourselves in — if the…

I’m not cooking tomorrow. I’m bringing wine to my parents’ place. Not that they don’t have wine, but I have more bottles than I can keep cool and when I drink alone I drink liquor because then I don’t feel an urge to empty the bottle. Especially these days.

It’s not a midlife crisis if it doesn’t blow right past your budget.

“Nothing good comes from any revelation that calls into question the validity of the process.”

I get what you’re saying, but it’s spirit-crushing.

He takes after mom? All the paintings have faded?

Maybe presumed white because white people can’t conceive of anything more powerful than white people?

Invisible. White.

It doesn’t even pretend to listen to the electorate. It went to his supporters. It’s written in a pick-how-many-exclamation-points-you-add-to-your-agreement-with-me style. And it ends with a don’t-let-the-Democrats-fuck-us plea for donations. He doesn’t want anyone’s ideas, he just wants to keep his base’s hate boners…

These are all code for “make me and my friends rich.” Every one of them will be constructed in a way that gives more of our money to Trump & Friends or that replaces existing institutions with ones more favorable to Trump & Friends.

Clearly, the experience of reading the article is intended to convey the experience of watching the Extended Cut. There’s more, but not really. Stuff is added, but it doesn’t add up.

This campaign wasn’t about the truth of candidate statements. It was about the truth of things said about the candidates. Things that “news” channels put in front of them.

Know or be able to produce credible sources for the truths underpinning your argument.

It’s not that the facts didn’t matter — it’s that people didn’t know the facts. They’ve victims of propaganda. (Some of them are ugly hateful victims of propaganda, but still victims of propaganda.)

“Communist!” is a thirty-year-old joke. Maybe they can’t make fun of our current mouth-frothings because the Brits share them.