Oversharing time, last year I didn't get the flu vaccine. It was a decision that took some thought to get to, and I'm still not sure it was the right one, but since I've been loosely banned from getting live viruses (on the grounds that no one is quite sure what's going on in my health region and it's better not to…

He also owns the Miss Teen USA pageant and reportedly barged in on young women there, according to several now grown contestants. After all, if you're going to do it to eighteen year old, why not fifteen year olds?

Not to mention the spying on minors undressing incident! He actually confessed to that one too, if I remember correctly.

Really, the sheer outrageousness of this whole thing is only compounded by the fact that he apparently wanted to aim his spin doctoring at "student athletes". Since when are student athletes in any danger of facing consequences for their actions? Don't get me wrong, there are lots of people who legitimately face the…

Was he moderately well off? For some reason there's a little niche of gay, moderately well off, and insufferable that is like the the LGBT community's equivalent of boys in polo shirts who went to private school and enjoy making offensive remarks. Not even self aware enough to be villainous, just sort of pathetically…

Getting back into school and not being able to pay attention to all this was possibly the best thing I've done for my health this year. Before the inauguration I was helping organize protests against the electoral college, telling people how to find and contact their electors, that sort of thing, and I really want to…

A year and a half doesn't seem like too long for an animated show, really. Goodness knows Gravity Falls went on hiatuses (hiati?) for no apparent reason, in the middle of a season no less. Animation takes time, especially if you want to do it well. It's not like a live action show where you turn the camera on, stick…

Dude, ye olden times got dark. Infant mortality was staggeringly high, opportunities for advancement were limited, and we were openly buying and selling people, you know, out on the streets. We still have slavery today, we still have horrible human trafficking and lots of fun venereal diseases, but we're at least…

John McCain and the other "nice" "respectable" "reasonable" Republicans who pay lip service to basic human decency but still haven't done a damn thing to stop MConnell and his cronies have a special place in my heart as well. They'll pretend to be centrists but when it comes down to it they'll still play softball with…

One of the nice thing about Lorde is that in addition to her music being fun, atmospheric, and always delightfully, deliciously, unapologetically melodramatic, she seems like an intelligent young woman who isn't afraid to be young and do what she wants. Your early twenties are a time of second guessing but she's…

Dear Departed Spirit of Obama, just don't let Gary Johnson try anything else.

But there aren't many ISPs these days. It's a monopoly market. Depending on where you live your options might be Verizon or nothing. Same with Comcast.

As a student? Speed is important. Speed affects preference and preference determines bias and bias is the devil. Once corporations start mucking around in there you can't trust what your brain is telling you. I'd rather avoid the "Orwellian" option for my future, thank you.

Net neutrality as a tool against censorship and bias in media is especially important these days. Tiny delays in processing time have all sorts of impacts on what sites we prefer. If one news site is suddenly reliably faster across the board… it could get incredibly problematic. You shouldn't have to pay for the truth.

The AHCA is a big deal, and it's gotten no attention that I can see. Seriously, guys, keep calling your senators. They might be too cowardly to turn, but it also means they're willing to drag their feet if all attention is on them.

Thank goodness for Maryland and DC!

It also does an excellent job of addressing the ups and downs of having siblings, since the banter between them is such a big part of the draw of their collaborative series. I love Sawbones and some of the other solo projects they do, but the dynamic between the brothers makes things instantly funnier. There are all…

Beyonce Knife Shower is a pretty good introduction to their whole vibe as well! There's lots of sort of cute short youtube videos of them in general.

Everyone has that one topic, don't we? It's all fun and games until someone brings up country living, or the electoral college, or the proper canning of blackberry preserves, and then all bets are off. You've been very informative.

Community, especially for certain minorities. Nearby centers of art and learning. Access to higher and broader education, state of the art medical care, public transportation, all pretty important especially for people with disabilities. Rural Wisconsin does well by a lot of people, don't get me wrong, but it would…