Just wanted to brag that I finally made good on my yearly goal of gingerbread house making. It was inspired by this:

On my insistence (bah humbug) our family stopped doing presents about 15 years ago. We’ve never looked back. It saves so much stress and money and time, so we can spend that energy hanging out, eating and drinking together.

For many women in those days, booze wasn’t “fun” for them. There was severely rampant and brutal spousal abuse against women, oftentimes after their husbands consumed a large amount of alcohol. Their campaign against alcohol was more of a way for them to simply live. Through our 2016 eyes, it may seem like they…

Stop taking Putin’s money and stop hiring Putin’s friends and stop apologizing for Putin’s behavior.

So, is there Misogyny in Asian countries. Arab countries? African countries?

And of course it’s not just Aleppo. Russian planes bombed the towns of Kafranbel and Maarat al-Numan in the Idlib province just today, targeting markets where families were shopping and killing at least fifty people. I’ll spare you the photos of dead children.

Oooh! Always a great excuse to post this fabulous cartoon: Straw Feminists

I love safe for work porn!

Well, thanks. Probably the best starting place as far as books go is Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami’s Burning Country. I recommend it frequently to people who want to get the history and conditions that led to the protests, why Syrians hate the Assad mafia, the formation of armed opposition in response to…

They’re ideologically bound to defend anyone America ostensibly opposes. Syrians and others have written quite a lot about this over the past several years, about their anger and disgust toward Western leftists. Excerpts from two such articles:

In early October, the BBC interviewed Fatemah, questioning Bana Alabed’s English skills and the veracity of the claim that a seven-year-old was tweeting her experience with such clarity.

Why is the media - including Jezebel - letting the assailant plant misinformation and lies? Why is the media choosing to go only with what the assailant says? That’s the narrative you’re choosing to create?

You fetishize a race, but you’re “not racist.” Uh, huh.

I got a big kick out of this:

“Agree with the gay lifestyle?”

Elizabeth Warren

Look: people are going to need to figure this out and they are going to need to figure it out quick.

Man, people sure have a strange way of expressing their economic insecurity.

And there’s also “You Have to be Understanding of Our Side” and “Not ALL Trump Supporters are Racist”.