it devalues the currency of the facts seems less like earnest empathy and more like i have a black friend!

Lena, Lena, Lena:

continually rolling out her bonafides when she does something like this is getting tiresome as well - it devalues the currency of the facts seems less like earnest empathy and more like i have a black friend!

lena dunham: I’m the victim here! Me! Me!

lena dunham : profile in courage.

I will say this again: We need to donate to Planned Parenthood. But white women, we also need to pay off some of that karma Samantha Bee was talking about and donate to a cause that doesn’t directly affect us.

Mike Pence looks like you’d find him strangling prostitutes on an episode of Law & Order SVU.

For once the advertisement on a web page reflected exactly how I feel.

Hey, if they want to open up fraud discussions - how about the fishy looking vote totals in WI counties as it relates to paper ballots vs. digital-only ballots and 2012 vs. 2106. We can all go right down the rabbit hole all the way to the bottom if that’s what everyone wants.

That part was especially galling to me. Why didn’t you report it? Jesus fucking Christ Atwood, you were supposed to be better than this. This should be basic knowledge for someone who wrote the Handmaiden’s Tale. I don’t give a fuck if she respects the guy.

You are right and as soon as I hit publish I thwacked my own forehead.

The best part of these letters is that, for the most part, they serve to show how deeply our public servants care about the cause for which they serve. These people are speaking anonymously and thus have little reason to lie, and what I get from reading these pieces is the terror that Trump will undo the work they’ve…

“and if it’s a matter of rape then it should be a matter of jail”

I’m a Fed scientist at the USDA. We’ve had steady growth since a reorganization of 2008 (while others had layoffs) and finally started hiring again in the past year and a half. I don’t know what this does but the heads say the outlook is not good.

I really enjoy your comments, so please don’t take this as a criticism: domestic abuse comes in all flavors of gender, orientaion, sex, color, etc.

Anxiety Monster: this woman is not your friend. She is your abuser. It is OK and normal for you to feel love for her, because that is what abusers do; they exploit the good impulses of their victims (that’s you). Otherwise, they wouldn’t have anyone to abuse. You wouldn’t stick around for it.

Obligatory seconding

Obligatory comment petitioning for revival of I Thee Dread.

I don’t appreciate the tone of this article. She has every right to use the term. This article smacks of condescension and snark.