“We Spice Girls are true Thatcherites. Thatcher was the first Spice
Girl, the pioneer of our ideology, Girl Power. Thatcher had ideals all
right. We love Maggie.”—Geri Halliwell

i'm impressed by how not-dated maxinquaye/nearly god/PMT sound outside of a couple tracks. i only heard "christiansands" on 120 minutes with matt pinfield when that came out, and the rest sometime during the bush administration, and i assumed it was his "new stuff" then instead of actually older

quake and it's not even close. i don't even have room in my life to love anything in pop culture anymore as much as I liked quake in 1996

These types thrive on creating an internal victimhood narrative. If you invoke threats of violence to keep them from saying what they want, it confirms everything they've been told to look out for and confirms they must be on the right track because they've found the secrets that are too politically correct for…

Seems like the niche for this just isn't there (I could be wrong)

fall asleep reading about a late peaker, darwin or ulysses grant or bertha benz or whichever figure you can see yourself being comforted by. it helps that those sorts of books are usually pretty narcotizing anyway

Without making justifying the overboard stereotypical misogynist male response, your reaction in a similar situation isn't really comparable or relevant, because your whole life you aren't told your value as an entity is based on your success at pursuing and initiating those sorts of things, often in a certain…

mockery and threats of violence are not an effective counter to narcissism and self-loathing

I have the total opposite opinion. I actually have sympathy for the circumstances of the low-information or bandwagon Trump supporters. The high-information supporters that know the most about and embrace Donald Trump the most are full-on white nationalists seeing a once in a lifetime opportunity to shift racism back…

CHAPO TRAP HOUSE and all their associated twitter beefs have amused me more this year than anything else. Grey Wolves Assemble!

At this point I'm convinced in 100 years we'll learn identity politics was a COINTELPRO type thing to derail actual leftist politics, and focus on things like "spend more on seeing Ghostbusters to show those meanies who is boss!" while ignoring class issues and dismantling of Capital. It's like after Mao said …

no, i'm not naive enough to believe that right now is a particularly terrible or virulent time for open expression of american white supremacy at all, because i have a basic understanding of history.

counterpoint anyone voting for anything based on a bumper sticker should just stay home on election day

The world has changed. I feel in the earth. I smell it in the air. I feel it in the water. Much once was is now lost, for few now live who remember it.

[OBVIOUS SPOILERS FOR SATAN GOAT MOVIE DO NOT READ]

I don't necessarily agree, because I think McCarthy's novels are explicitly about our modern atheist/materialist age, but I did once read an interesting take by a Yale professor about how the Judge does the same thing Satan does in Paradise Lost: http://oyc.yale.edu/transcr…

ya, I was gonna say, Pacino isn't even my favorite Satan in a Keanu movie =P

Brie Larson was playing Hold'em in a real dank and edgy Western saloon, and this twitter comment wandered in, making a racket whooping and hollering like a fool, and as she sighed and reached down to half-cock the hammer on her ancient revolver, you will not believe what goes down and why it changed the path of the…

Huh, it's almost as though punching up/punching down have no definite definition and are just used in the moment to justify whatever the person invoking them wants them to mean…

Based on any other time I've heard her on a pocast, I don't think Amy's really a jerk.