Ah, and the journey from “true socialist Bernie voter screaming you fucking centrist compromiser” to “Trump fanboy screaming left-wing people are traitors” is complete.

I have sailed a few times on various power and sail vessels both inland and offshore. I’ve even taught sailing and gotten certificates and shit.

So the UK now has the second highest death rate in Europe with 980 hospital deaths being recorded today. That specific detail is notable because deaths everywhere else, at home or in care, do not get counted on the daily tallies but only weeks later.

Admittedly, my sailing experience is limited to passing out on party boats, but wouldn’t ships trying to bring drugs into the U.S. be sailing in the opposite direction of the ships trying to deliver PPE to Latin America?

As someone who lives in Texas the worst part of that tweet is that out of all our statewide elected officials he’s still probably the least bone-chillingly evil

No way in he’ll am I gonna make it through ten plus minutes of that batshittery.

There’s a difference between processed and ultra processed food. I found this quite interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/feb/13/how-ultra-processed-food-took-over-your-shopping-basket-brazil-carlos-monteiro

I’m a celiac so have to stay away from gluten forever more. Couple of weeks ago a lot of the GF junk foods were gone. I think people somehow thought they would be healthier if they ate the GF cookies and crackers and chips. Um. no. So instead my kid and I lost our opportunity to indulge. Annoyed.

Jez doesn’t always do the best job of conveying the tone or point of their source material. I read the article this morning and thought it was an interesting look at a trend, AND a corner of the economy that hasn’t been as hard-hit, which is valuable information for people who are out of work (and also investors, true)…

Exactly. I’m not going to lie on the rags and flames of my apocalyptic deathbed going “I ate SO MUCH KALE.”

who only even became VP (and thus only had the inside track on this nomination) because Obama thought the country was so racist that he needed an old white guy standing by his side to chill everyone out

Yes, I have no qualms about eating junk / snack foods.  I still did on occasion before COVID-19.  But in moderation of course.  I cook and enjoy it.  But when I do cook, it’s with fresh ingredients, that I usually got at the grocery store a few days prior at best.  I don’t have that luxury anymore.  Yeah, there are…

It’s not only snobbery. Processed food is awful for you even if you don’t have health issues. In my case I avoid it for health reasons (anti-inflammatory diet to keep some auto-immune issues under control). Doesn’t mean I don’t ever have it, and gluten and alcohol and sugar and spicy food and fried stuff that I’m also…

“Peepaw” is weird but infinitely preferable to “daddy”

Fondly cosigned. 

And when we do have a progressive democratic candidate trying to figure out why and compromising to help bring more people around to progressive ideals, we need to not tear them down because they don’t pass this Christ Like purity test!

It’s disgusting to hear Biden thank Sanders for challenging the Powers That Be when Biden himself represents those same Powers That Be in so many ways. I was always in Elizabeth Warren’s camp but am more saddened than ever that I have to vote for this person who has done practically nothing to further social progress…

This primary has sucked. There seemed to be a real chance to either have some combination of (1) the emergence of a real progressive candidate enthusiastically pursuing a real progressive platform, (2) the emergence of a youngish leader for the party moving forward or (3) the emergence of a candidate reflective of the…

Trumpian levels of vulgarity and excess.

Ya know, in these trying times I’m not sure I’d be doing a brag on how I burn money just because I can. The house is hideous, but the disparity it points to is obscene. Mr Drake can spend his money however he wishes but the world is experiencing a monumental shift and his fuck-them swank and swagger makes me want to…